JAKARTA, May 26 (Xinhuanet) -- Right after the seventh anniversaryof his downfall from supreme power, the former Indonesian president Soeharto is once again falling into judicial jeopardy, as Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh said here Thursday that he plans to re-investigate him for alleged corruption and human rights violation during his 32-year-old ruling of the world's largest Muslim country.

    "Hopefully Soeharto is recovered, so the legal process can be enforced," Saleh said in a hearing with Parliament members.

    However, the Attorney General conveyed difficulties of investigating the former ruler, for 84-year-old Soeharto currently suffers from a variety of diseases ranging from intestinal bleeding to permanent brain damage as a result of consecutive strokes.

    Saleh said that the Supreme Court has ordered the Attorney General Office to cure the former Indonesian dictator until he recovers from illness.

    During the hearing, parliament member Gayus Lumbuun proposed tokeep investigating those linked with Soeharto's alleged corruptionas the Attorney General Office cannot investigate Soeharto.

    "People who were close to Soeharto must be investigated for them to return the state fund," he said.

    The Attorney General's decision was made amid different voices about the former dictator's fate.

    Right on the seventh anniversary of Soeharto's downfall on May 21, 1998, college students took to the streets in cities like Jakarta, Yogyat, Bandung and Suyanto, demanding the government put Soeharto on trial for alleged corruption and atrocity that he and his cronies once committed after he presided the country in 1966.

    However, he was hospitalized for intestinal bleeding that endangered his brain, heart and liver half a month earlier as government officials and Congress members rushed to visit him on bed and called on the society to treat him in a humanitarian way.

    On May 10, after seeing Soeharto in hospital, President Susilo Banbang Yudhoyono told the press that it is the nation's tradition to respect a former country leader and the government has responsibility for offering him with the best medicare.

    Although his days are counted, hate for the notorious man can still be felt, as popular nepotism, rampant corruption, stagnant economy as well as huge gap between the rich and the poor have allbeen attributed to his long-standing New Order regime.

    Love is other side of the coin, as his ruling brought rice self-sufficiency, high literacy rates, infrastructure expansion and increasing exports to the 220 million Indonesians, together with handsome rewards for his loyalists, most of whom now stand as pillars of the country's economy or even politics.

    "Wherever the political winds blew, Soeharto was unquestionablythe dominant factor in Indonesia. People were either for him or against him......He was generally respected for his effectiveness, but quietly resented for his suffocating control, " said political analyst Wimar Witoelar in an editorial published on Jakarta Post here Monday.

    Meanwhile, echoing the Attorney General's decision on Thursday, people who hate Soeharto now apparently try to put him on stake, as the seventh anniversary of his downfall coincides with the blistering anti-corruption campaign that has been just kicked off by Susilio, the sixth president of Indonesia in office.

    No doubt, people who love him still render his sick body and humanitarianism as excuses for him to evade punishment. To the Indonesians, this is not something new. In the past, each time there was judicial danger, Soeharto would be hospitalized.

    Out of all the entanglement about Soeharto, the current government has designed its anti-corruption campaign as one of the most important measures to revitalize the whole country.

    Unfortunately, the source of corruption has been identified by the public as the old man who was the most long-standing president of the country, but not the officials and CEOs of state-owned enterprises who were detained in recent months or will be detainedin the coming days.

    Seven years away from the chair at the Merdeka Palace, Soehartois again jeopardized by law. Will he be punished? Or will he escape again like before? Let time test the Attorney General's plan. Enditem