Indonesian magazine sorry for Suharto`s Last Supper cover

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - A leading Indonesian magazine has apologised to Christians for depicting former President Suharto and his family in an image parodying Leonardo Da Vinci's Last Supper in the cover of its latest edition.

Weekly magazine Tempo's cover showed a sketch of Suharto, who died at 86 last month, sitting at a table surrounded by his children in a parody of the last meal Jesus had with his disciples as depicted in Da Vinci's painting.

Christian activists visited Tempo's building on Tuesday to protest the cover which they said compared Suharto to Jesus.

"For anything unseemly related to the publication of the cover, I, on behalf of the Tempo group, apologise," the magazine's chief editor, Toriq Hadad, was quotyed by Reuters as saying in a statement run on its Web site, www.tempointeraktif.com. (*)