Migrant worker freed

JAKARTA (JP): A migrant worker, jailed for abandoning her newborn in a Garuda Indonesia aircraft toilet, was freed after serving seven and a half months in prison.

Tangerang's female penitentiary freed Imas, 27, on Monday afternoon after receiving a copy of West Java High Court's ruling that Imas' jail term had been reduced from 10 months to seven months.

Imas' lawyers from the Women Solidarity-Indonesian Migrant Workers Legal Aid Institute (SP-LABMI) have been seeking her release following the high court's decision, but the penitentiary refused to release Imas until it received a copy of the ruling.

Imas has been detained since Nov. 2, 2000, one day after she delivered her baby.