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Jakarta Post
January 22, 2004
BANDA ACEH (Agencies): The government on Thursday
transferred 54 rebel prisoners from Aceh province to
penitentiaries in Central Java province.
Wearing blue uniforms and handcuffed to each other,
the prisoners were escorted into an air force C-130
Hercules transport that flew them to Semarang, the
capital of Central Java province.
The group were the first of 143 prisoners who will
serve their sentences in jails across Java.
Military spokesman Col. Ditya Soedarsono said the
second batch to consist of 89 prisoners is expected to
arrive in Semarang on Friday.
He said that once the rebels arrived in Ahmad Yani
airport in Semarang, they will directly handed over to
the local justice and human right office. |