Indonesian Attorney General Hendarman Supandji said on Monday that the attorney general office could not terminate the ongoing civil suits against Indonesian former president Soeharto because of his illness.
The rejection was a refusal to the recent request of the party of Golkar, which asked the office to end civil cases of Soeharto on the ground of humanity.
Supanji told reporters at the State Palace that despite the former strongman was in critical condition now, the charges could be handed over to his children.
"Soeharto (civil) cases could not be dropped," he told reporters.
The attorney general, however, said that the criminal case against the 86-year-old ailing retired-general already was terminated in May last year.
Soeharto has been charged on corruption which allegedly made the state suffer more than one billion U.S. dollars financial loss during his rules.
He also faced numerous allegation of human rights violation and corruption during his rules, but in May 2006, prosecutors closed a criminal case against him due to his deteriorating health.
Soeharto was toppled by a pro-democracy mass riot in 1998 followed the Asian financial crisis.
Source:Xinhua
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