Well-known legal expert joins PDI

Well-known legal expert joins PDI

AMBON, Maluku: Outspoken legal expert Sahetapy will campaign
for the minority Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) in the
upcoming 1997 election, a local party official said yesterday.

Sam Leatemia, a well-known Jakarta-based youth activist from
Maluku -- has also announced he will also join the Christian-
nationalist party and take part in the 1997 electioneering.

"They will be campaigning for the PDI in Maluku prior to the
1997 election," chief of the Maluku branch of the PDI, John
Mailoa, told Antara.

Both Leatemia and Sahetapy, who is a professor of law at
Surabaya's Airlangga University, made their commitment during a
visit to Ambon earlier this month, Mailoa said.

"They will campaign for the PDI on their own expense," Mailoa
said.

Sahetapy came to prominence through his critical comments on
the trials held in relation to the murder of labor activist
Marsinah in 1993. (pan)