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JAKARTA (AP): Time magazine asked Indonesia's SupremeCourt on Thursday to reverse an earlier ruling that ordered the publication to pay US$106 million (euro75 million) for an article that allegedly defamed former dictator Suharto. Time ran a cover story in its Asian edition in May 1999 saying the family of Suharto amassed billions of dollars.

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Feb. 24, 2008, 2:51 a.m.
Defamed former dictator Suharto was not an angel but to point figure at him for amassing billions of dollars must have some kind of hard evidence to publish that kind of cover stories. In the name of freedom the Western media are unpleasing terror whenever there is a story that has to do with Muslims or Islam, they go all out war on terror on Islam and Muslims. In Islam we don't believe in freedom of speech to tarnish the image of someone. If someone is proven guilty still it is forbidden to attack people in public forum and media. He should be punished according to the law. This is the difference between Democracy and Islam.If Western world understand this simple fact the world would be a safer ad better place to live.
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andieaw
Feb. 24, 2008, 3:53 a.m.
My opinion : there is no connection between religion with this article, its all about money! Time get money from selling those stories in the past, but there was other aspect that they forget, the privacy. Yes I support the freedom of speech, but if it comes to my privacy, I will struggle to fight them.