JAKARTA, INDONESIA - AN INDONESIAN court on Thursday rejected a civil case against the youngest son of ex-dictator Suharto for alleged corruption and awarded him 550,000 dollars in a countersuit he filed, judges said.

'The panel of judges accepted the counter-lawsuit filed by Tommy Suharto and ordered Bulog to pay immaterial damages to Tommy Suharto to an amount of five billion rupiah (S$767,997),' he added.

Bulog had been seeking 550 billion rupiah from Tommy Suharto and other defendants in damages relating to an alleged 1995 land exchange scam. -- AFP