Adiguna Sutowo

Adiguna died at 4:04am on 18 April 2021 at Jakarta's Pertamina Hospital of undisclosed causes. He was taken to a funeral home in Menteng, before being buried later that day at Jakarta's Tanah Kusir cemetery. The burial was tightly guarded by members of FKPPI and Pemuda Pancasila. Among the mourners who scattered flowers over the grave were Dian Sastrowardoyo and Jakarta Regional Legislative Assembly chairman Prasetyo Edi Marsudi of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle. Prasetyo praised Adiguna as "a good person" with whom he shared many memories.

MRA Group’s website in 2019 proclaimed: “Leading the drive at MRA are energetic, dedicated executives, exemplified by Adiguna Sutowo & Soetikno Soedarjo. They embody the character of an excellent young management team: a sense of intelligent restlessness.” The group's operations have covered restaurants, magazines and radio stations, luxury vehicles, entertainment and hotels.

On 20 March 2018, Adiguna failed to meet a summons by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) for questioning as a witness over alleged corruption and money laundering in Garuda Indonesia's procurement of aircraft and engines from Airbus SAS and Rolls-Royce PLC. Adiguna was re-summoned to appear on 11 April 2018 and again failed to appear, claiming to be ill. His son, Maulana Indraguna, was summoned over the same case and did appear for questioning on 10 April 2018. The two suspects in the Garuda bribery case were Emirsyah Satar and Soetikno Soedarjo, the latter being Adiguna's business partner. On 8 May 2020, Emirsyah was sentenced to 8 years in prison and fined Rp1 billion, while Soetikno Soedarjo was sentenced to 6 years in prison and fined Rp1 billion.

Adiguna's son Maulana Indraguna Sutowo became CEO of MRA Group in January 2017.

On 23 September 2015, Flo filed for divorce against Piyu at South Jakarta District Court, accusing him of failing to provide physical and mental support for the past two years. Piyu denied being at fault. Piyu’s lawyer would neither confirm nor deny an allegation that Piyu had been offered Rp9 billion to end his marriage with Flo. The couple eventually divorced on 15 February 2016.

In October 2013, Adiguna was the subject of renewed media attention after a violent incident outside the house of his second wife, Vika Dewayani, in Pulomas, East Jakarta. Police said Adiguna’s driver, Dalyono, had on 25 October picked up Adiguna and a woman named Anastasia Florina “Flo” Limasnax from the Four Seasons Apartments and taken them to Bengkel Cafe at Pacific Place mall until 1.30am on 26 October, and later drove them to Pulomas.

In November 2013, when questioned by police, Adiguna admitted he had been having an extra-marital affair with Flo for the past three years. Police said Adiguna and Flo had gone to Vika's house with the intention of telling her about the affair. Police spokesman Rikwanto confirmed Flo went berserk at the house, took the wheel of the car, smashed into the fence and rammed three cars on the property. Police said Adiguna told them he was asleep in the silver Mercedes throughout the attack and had not ordered Flo to cause the damage. "The initial plan to explain their increasingly close relationship to Vika was eventually canceled," said Rikwanto.

Following his release from jail, Adiguna was seen at Jakarta’s upmarket nightclubs. Jakarta Social Blog, a website devoted to the revels of the city’s wealthiest families, reported on Adiguna’s birthday party at the exclusive Blowfish Kitchen & Bar in May 2008 and listed a string of celebrity attendees. The report attracted critical comments, but these were outnumbered by people posting in Adiguna’s defense with comments such as “he’s accepted his mistake… he knows what he’s done is wrong (plus when he did it he wasn’t exactly “himself”)… now let him move on with his life & live a normal life.”

After the rejection of his first Supreme Court appeal, Adiguna filed a second appeal to the Supreme Court. In November 2007, a panel of three Supreme Court judges – Parman Soeparman, Djoko Sarwoko and Moegiharjo – reduced Adiguna’s sentence to four years, making him due for release in 2009. He was released on 14 December 2007 after the Justice Ministry gave him remissions on the grounds of good behavior. He had served fewer than three years in jail.

On 17 August 2006, Adiguna received a three-month sentence remission in connection with national Independence Day celebrations.

At about 4:47am on 1 January 2005, Adiguna shot dead a waiter, Yohanes Brachmans Haerudy Natong, better known as Rudy, at Jakarta Hilton Hotel’s Island Bar Fluid Club & Lounge, located on the first floor of the hotel.

The Jakarta Post newspaper and detikcom online news portal in January 2005 quoted police as claiming that Adiguna was a cocaine user. His lawyer denied that Adiguna uses narcotics. National Police chief of detectives Commissioner General Suyitno Landung Sudjono in January 2005 said samples of Adiguna's blood and urine tested positive to illegal drugs: methamphetamine and phenmetrazine.

By early February 2005, police said they were still gathering evidence and awaiting results to charge Adiguna with narcotics offenses, separate from the murder and firearm charges. Police later claimed that subsequent tests of Adiguna's fingernail and hair samples were negative, so the drugs charges were withdrawn. Police Detective chief Suyitno Landung, who was later jailed for taking bribes in a separate case, declined to explain why the results were different from the blood and urine tests.

The 25-year-old victim, Rudy, was from a low-income family on Flores island in East Nusa Tenggara province and had been working part-time at the Hilton to support his law studies at Jakarta's Bung Karno University. He also supported his two younger siblings. He was due to have graduated in 2005. His parents were initially informed he had been shot dead during a protest against fuel price rises in Jakarta.

Prosecutors delayed the start of Adiguna’s trial on the grounds that he required hospitalization because of an “asthma attack”. After the trial commenced on 22 March 2005 at Central Jakarta District Court, he was “too sick” to attend some sessions. On other occasions, he arrived late to the court.

On 16 June 2005, Central Jakarta District Court sentenced Adiguna to seven years in jail for murder with intent but without premeditation and illegal possession of an unregistered firearm and ammunition. Presiding judge Lilik Mulyadi said that although all of the accusations against Adiguna had been "legitimately proven", there were several mitigating factors to warrant a light sentence. The judge listed the extenuating circumstances as: Adiguna was still young, he had a family, he had been polite during the trial, it was his first offense, he had already been “morally punished” by media coverage, and his family had apologized for the murder. Adiguna was 47 at the time of sentencing. He never confessed in court to the crime. He was often absent from the court, but often deployed his supporters to the courthouse.

Adiguna appealed at Jakarta High Court, which in August 2005 upheld his seven-year sentence. He then appealed at the Supreme Court, which in January 2006 also upheld the sentence. A panel of three Supreme Court judges - Mariana Sutadi, Atja Sondjaja and Mieke Komar - said the rulings of the two lower courts were correct. They said the forgiveness letter from Rudy's father could not be considered, and that the Supreme Court could only consider a request for "relief" if there had been an error in the application of the law by the lower courts.

In October 2004, Adiguna threatened to kill David Reynaldo Titawono (then 22), the nephew of rock musician Achmad Albar and singer Camelia Malik. The incident took place in Kemang, South Jakarta, reportedly at a property of Indonesian KFC franchise owner Ricardo Gelael, who is the husband of Albar’s ex-wife, Rini S. Bono. Some accounts said Adiguna, who was accompanied by his bodyguards, shot David through or near his ear. After the incident, police revoked Adiguna’s firearms license and confiscated a gun that fired rubber bullets.

On 11 February 2004, Vika sought police protection. Her lawyer alleged that Adiguna had threatened to throw her out of the house, which was owned by one of Adiguna’s subsidiary companies.

Adiguna headed PT Suntri Sepuri, a pharmaceuticals company founded in 1998. It produces antibiotics, capsules, tablets, syrups and other medicines.

The Nugra Santana group was hit hard by the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Bank Pacific, led by Adiguna’s sister Endang Utari Mokodompit, was liquidated by the government in November 1997.

In 1993, Adiguna established PT Mugi Rekso Abadi (MRA) with Soetikno Soedardjo and Ongky Soemarmo (who was executive director of Tommy Suharto's Humpuss Group). In October 1992, the colleagues had established the Jakarta franchise of Hard Rock Cafe. The founding majority shareholders were Adiguna and Soetikno. Other shareholders included Irwan Subiarto, Ongky Soemarno and Yapto Suryosumarno.

From 1993 to 1997, Adiguna was a deputy chairman of the Young Generation of the Communication Forum of Indonesian Veterans' Children (Gema FKPPI). FKPPI is a grouping of entrepreneurs whose business success has been attributed to their influential military parents. From February 1998 to October 2003, Adiguna was general chairman of Gema FKPPI. He was succeeded by his brother Pontjo Sutowo, who headed FKPPI from 2003 to 2008, during which period Adiguna was a deputy chairman. FKPPI promotes the values of state ideology Pancasila to counter terrorism, radicalism, and separatism. It has also blamed Indonesia’s problems on communists and foreigners. After his release from jail, Adiguna remained a deputy chairman of FKPPI.

In 1990, Adiguna married his second wife, Vika, the niece of Bharata Band vocalist and bass player Harry Bharata. They had two children: Cecile Seruni and Herwinto. Ibnu Sutowo’s extended family reportedly disapproved of the marriage. Cecile in 2015 married Loed Fabian Mamoto, the son of senior policeman Inspector General Benny Mamoto, who previously headed the National Narcotics Agency's eradication task force.

Adiguna was a chairman of the DKI Jaya chapter of the Indonesian Motorsports Association (IMI) for two terms, from 1989 to 1993 and from 1993 to 1997.

Adiguna partnered with Tommy Suharto and Soetikno Soedarjo at PT Mahasarana Buana (Mabuha) as Fokker's aircraft agent and sold 15 aircraft to Tommy Suharto's Sempati and Pelita Air Service in September 1985.

Adiguna attended the University of Southern California to study business. He returned to Indonesia in 1981 to commence his business career.

Upon completing university in Los Angeles in 1981, Adiguna returned to Indonesia to become president director of PT Adiguna Mesintani, which distributes diesel engine generators used to power hotels, factories and other enterprises. The company also manufactures heavy equipment used in offshore oil drilling activities.

In 1977, while still at high school, Adiguna married Indriana, the daughter of a former aide of president Suharto. They had three children. Their eldest son, Adri, died in 1993 in a traffic accident while driving a Mercedes-Benz on Jalan Sudirman, Jakarta. Their second son, Indraguna Maulana (born 1982), in 2010 married actress and model Dian Sastrowardoyo.

Adiguna was involved from a young age in his family's Nugra Santana Group, which inherited assets from family patriarch, Ibnu Sutowo, a three-star general who was viewed as the “treasurer” of the Suharto administration, as he led Pertamina, which generated revenue during the oil boom of the 1970s.

Adiguna was a professional car racer from the 1970s to the 1990s. His racing contemporaries included Tommy Soeharto, Ricardo Gelael, Soetikno Soedardjo and Onky Soemarno. In the 1990s, his co-driver was sometimes prominent rally driver Chepot Haniwiano. He competed in the Presidential Cup series seven times in the 1970s and 1980s.

Adiguna Sutowo (31 May 1958 – 18 April 2021) was an Indonesian businessman and convicted murderer, whose business group’s interests included Hard Rock Cafe Jakarta. He was found guilty in 2005 of murdering a waiter at the Sutowo family's Jakarta Hilton Hotel (subsequently renamed Sultan Hotel). He was sentenced to seven years in jail but was released in less than three years. He died on 18 April 2021 at Jakarta's Pertamina Central Hospital.

Adiguna was born in Jakarta on 31 May 1958. He is the youngest of seven children born to Ibnu Sutowo and Zaleha. His siblings are: Nuraini Zaitun Kamarukmi Luntungan, Endang Utari Mokodompit, Widarti, Pontjo Nugro Susilo, Sri Hartati Wahyuningsih, and Handara.

His father headed state oil and gas company Pertamina from 1957 until 1976, by which time his corrupt mismanagement had enabled him to amass an enormous family fortune and nearly bankrupted the company, despite the global oil boom of the 1970s.

Later on 1 January, Jakarta Police declared Adiguna a suspect. His hotel room, Room 1564, contained 19 bullets of the type that had killed Rudy. The bullets had been hidden in the toilet. Media reports, quoting initial police findings, said Adiguna was high on crystal methamphetamine and alcohol at the time of the killing. Adiguna had a nosebleed on the morning of the murder. Police found bloodstained towels, tissues and a handkerchief in his room at the Hilton. Police initially thought the blood might have come from Rudy, but a forensic examination indicated the blood came from Adiguna. Detikcom online news portal quoted a police source as saying the nosebleed could have been the result of nasal inhalation of narcotics because the suspect had a propensity for that method of drug taking.