Convicted GAM members relocated

BANDUNG: Five prisons in West Java are ready to accept 74 inmates convicted for being members of the banned Free Aceh Movement (GAM) separatist group, a senior official said on Wednesday.

The inmates, including GAM top negotiator Sofyan Ibrahim Tiba, will be moved to the prisons from their cells in the Aceh Police Headquarters on Wednesday, said Sukotjo, the head of Correctional Institutions at the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights' West Java office. The transfer would be made because Aceh penitentiaries had no more room for inmates, he said.

The prisons included one in Bandung, two in Cirebon and one in Majalengka and Indramayu. -- JP