Jail sought for pamphleteer

Jail sought for pamphleteer

BANDUNG: The government prosecution office is calling for a
four-year jail term for a man alleged to have insulted President
Soeharto through pamphlets he produced and distributed.

The prosecution said that Crd, alias Coki, wrote some of the
articles in the pamphlets, the contents of which denigrated the
Head of State.

The pamphlets were circulated between April and August last
year, and some were even sent to military offices and government
agencies in Bandung and Jakarta, Himawan Kaswara, the chief
prosecutor, told the court.

Coki and his lawyers Effendi Saman and Abdurrachman of the
Nusantara Legal Aid Institute are scheduled to present their
closing arguments on July 17. (emb)