Honour guards were made up of prominent Venezuelans, including student leaders and baseball players, Formula One driver Pastor Maldonado and conductor Carlos Dudamel.
Even rich and well-connected Chinese were alarmed when Sofyan Wanandi, a prominent ethnic-Chinese tycoon (and a former student leader who supported Mr Suharto's rise to power) was interrogated about improbable contacts with an outlawed group of radicals said to have been making a bomb.