[2] Like Suharto, he was born and raised in the small hamlet of Kemusuk to the west of the main town of Yogyakarta.
During the period of the New Order government, he co-founded the Indonesian Indigenous Entrepreneurs Association (HIPPI), a move that reportedly drew the ire of president Suharto.
He later won a reduction of his sentence to two years, initiating a probe by the Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission into the alleged scandal of the "judicial mafia" which uncovered offers of $600,000 to various judges.
He joined with others in recalling personal memories about Suharto in a book, Pak Harto: The untold stories, published in 2011.
[6] And in 2013, he supported the publication of a book of anecdotes from palace-based reporters remembering Suharto entitled 34 Palace Journalists talk about Pak Harto.