By DON MORRISON Editor, TIME Asia

When we finished work on our May 24 cover story about the wealth amassed by the family of former Indonesian President Suharto during his 32 years in power, we knew it would attract attention. But we didn't expect all this:

Unauthorized photocopies of the article are being sold in cities across the archipelago for up to five times our regular cover price. John Stanmeyer--Saba for TIME

• The 18,000 copies we sent to Indonesia were snapped up the day they landed, as were thousands more in other countries. We rushed additional shipments to Indonesia, and they too sold out. Meanwhile, unauthorized photocopies of the article are being sold in cities across the archipelago for up to five times our regular cover price of 10,000 rupiah, or about $1.20. (To locate a genuine copy, call N.V. Indoprom at 6221-809-1928; fax: 6221-809-2679. Or read the article for free on our website.)

• The cover story inspired front-page headlines in major Indonesian newspapers for days on end. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside parliament to demand that Suharto be prosecuted. Leaders of most major political parties, including Suharto's own Golkar, called for an investigation based on the TIME report.

• President B.J. Habibie ordered Attorney-General Andi M. Ghalib and Justice Minister Muladi to travel to Europe this week to look into the article's disclosure that $9 billion of Suharto family money was transferred between Swiss and Austrian banks shortly after the ex-President left office last year. Habibie also replaced four junior attorneys-general, including the head of the government's year-old Suharto investigation.

• Suharto appeared at the Attorney-General's office with a signed power-of-attorney to aid Ghalib and Muladi in their European search. The former leader said that any money they found in accounts linked to him should go to "the Indonesian people." Suharto's son Bambang Trihatmodjo was grilled by government investigators about the TIME report, which he described as "untrue."

Unfazed by all of this activity, we return to the subject of Indonesia in this week's issue. Our focus is on the state of the nation as it prepares for a crucial June 7 parliamentary election. East Asia correspondent Terry McCarthy spent two weeks traveling across the archipelago, asking Indonesians whether they expect their country to hold together. He and other TIME journalists uncovered lots of ethnic, religious and political fissures, but also a yearning for stability--and for some answers about the former President. At the end of one interview, a senior military officer asked: "Is it true what you printed about Suharto? And where's my copy?"

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