Matori flown to Singapore

Matori flown to Singapore

JAKARTA: Defense Minister Matori Abdul Djalil who has been
bed-ridden with a possible stroke over the past week has been
moved from the Army hospital in Central Jakarta to Mount
Elizabeth general hospital in Singapore.

According to Suwadi, a deputy secretary general of Matori's
newly created Glorious Awakening Party (PKD), the minister was
moved Wednesday evening "to give him some fresh air and a change
of circumstances."

"I have just talked to his son who is with him in Singapore.
He said that his father is conscious. He (Matori) has also
recognized people who visited him there," Suwadi told The Jakarta
Post on Thursday.

But Suwadi refused to disclose whether Matori was suffering
from a stroke, saying that "he is just exhausted."

Matori has been hospitalized for a week but staffers at his
ministry have refused to confirm it.

Sources close to Matori, however, said that the minister may
have suffered some degree of brain damage due to a stroke and the
doctors were trying to save his life.

It may take some time for him to recover, the sources said. --
JP