Media News - Friday, April 17, 2009
Time magazine wins appeal in Indonesia
Time magazine won an appeal in Indonesia's Supreme Court on Thursday against USD 93m in libel damages awarded to late dictator Suharto. The court overturned its earlier ruling that Time had defamed Suharto in a May 1999 article alleging he had amassed a vast fortune through corruption. Suharto sought more than USD 27bn in the defamation suit filed against the Asian edition of US-based Time. The court awarded him IDR 1tr in damages in September, 2007 and ordered the US-based magazine to apologise for the article. In February last year the publication submitted a demand for a review of the Supreme Court ruling, saying it had been based on a 'manifest error.' The article said a four-month investigation in 11 countries had traced some 15 billion dollars in wealth accumulated by Suharto and his six children. The dictator died aged 86 in January last year, having never been brought to trial for corruption during his 32-year rule. The Time case has been closely watched as a benchmark for press freedom in democratic Indonesia. (AFP)
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