Inmate dies of heart attack

BOGOR: An inmate serving a two-year jail term for robbery died on Friday in the emergency unit of the Indonesian Red Cross hospital here following a heart attack.

Dr. Zaelani, a health officer in Paledang penitentiary, told The Jakarta Post that the patient, Ambrian Azis Burhanudin alias Udin, 51, was suffering from heart trouble before he was sent to the penitentiary last year.

A prison guard said that Ambrian, whose sentence had been reduced following remission, was due to be freed in September. --JP