Jakarta – Jailed Indonesian businessman Tommy Suharto has complained about night-time mosquito bites but is otherwise adapting to simple prison food and the lack of privileges at his new prison on the island of Nusakambangan.

Prison warden Sumantri told reporters that the youngest son of former president Suharto had asked for a pesticide spray. "I suggested he apply mosquito repellent instead," the warden told reporters on Saturday.

Tommy was jailed last month for 15 years for ordering the murder of a Supreme Court judge and for illegal weapons possession.

His cell, number 17-B, is next to that of his father's former golfing partner and business crony Mohammad "Bob" Hasan, who was jailed for six years for corruption. Hasan is expected to serve as mentor to Tommy, who is on a 30-day orientation period at the Batu penitentiary on the island off Central Java. He was transferred there on Aug 15.

And unlike the time he spent at Jakarta's Cipinang penitentiary, where he had access to his own television and had a shower installed in his cell, life in Batu is more spartan. Like the 173 other inmates there, Tommy has to attend morning and afternoon parades and has to share a TV set with others.

Mr Sumantri said Tommy was allowed visitors only on Mondays and Thursdays. Two of his sisters and his visited him last week, arriving by helicopter. The prison chief said that only family and not "former girlfriends" would be allowed to visit.