Journalist never repents

Journalist never repents

JAKARTA (JP): A senior female journalist for a Sumatra
newspaper was briefly questioned yesterday by security officers
for speculating on the next cabinet lineup.

The woman drew a large crowd at a press center when she read
out a list of the next cabinet lineup to fellow reporters and a
television crew treated her like an authoritative official.

When the "news briefing" was over, plainclothesmen approached
and led her outside.

"There is nothing to worry about. They asked me what I was
doing and who my source was," she said on returning to the press
room.

She was not repentant and helped other reporters curious about
the list she said she had obtained from the Indonesian section of
the BBC and Hilversum radio interviews with Indonesian sources.
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