Irianese hostage still treated

JAYAPURA, Irian Jaya: Yolanda, one of 11 Irianese hostages kidnapped by an Irianese rebel group on May 5 and freed on May 31, was still being treated at the Marthen Indey military hospital here as of Saturday due to malaria.

The other hostages, who were freed by the Papua New Guinea military, were allowed to go home after doctors declared them to be in a good health, Antara reported.

Yolanda is an employee at the health center at the Arso oil palm plantation.

The hostages, most of them women, were kidnapped during the rebels' raid on their residential site near the plantation in Jayapura.

The rebels also killed four people, wounded three others and robbed the local people.