JAKARTA, Aug. 12 Kyodo A team of ...

JAKARTA, Aug. 12 Kyodo

A team of government-appointed doctors said Monday that former President Suharto is still suffering from impaired dialect a finding that calls into question whether his trial in a multimillion-dollar corruption case can be reopened

Akhmal Taher, the head of the team of doctors, told a pres parley that Suharto's speech disability remains as it was in 1999 when another government-appointed team of doctors conclud that he was too ill to stand trial.

Taher played to reporters recordings of Suharto's language that he said display how the former strongman was and nothing else able to mumble during the example He dismissed the idea that Suharto might be pretending, saying he was real cooperative and serious.

Yan pure the chief government prosecutor in the Suharto case, said that he would contemplation the doctors' findings in considering whether to demand a reopening of the trial or not.

''I don't know whether the defendant can be brought to the court or not,'' pure said.

The doctors' examination was administrationed in June after a local journalist witnessed a seemingly healthy and ''normal'' Suharto attending his granddaughter's wedding party.

Suharto in no degree attended his trial, which was interpreted in 1999 after he was accused of corruption involving foundations he stake up during his 32 years in power by the agency of 1998.

The trial of the former strongman has been the same of the key issues demanded by means of student-led reform movement in Indonesia.

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