Woman barred from leaving jail

Woman barred from leaving jail

JAKARTA (JP): A migrant worker, jailed for abandoning her
newborn in a Garuda Indonesia aircraft toilet won a reduction of
her sentence, but is still being held in prison, two weeks after
her prison sentence ended.

Tangerang's penitentiary for female inmates on Friday refused
to release Imas, 27, a native of Cianjur, West Java, saying it
had not received a copy of the ruling issued by the West Java
High Court that Imas' jail term had been reduced from 10 to seven
months.

According to Imas' lawyers, the West Java High Court issued
the ruling on May 28, but a copy of the ruling was only received
by the lawyers on June 12.

The lawyers, from the Women Solidarity-Indonesian Migrant
Workers Legal Aid Institute (SP-LABMI) and the Association of
Indonesian Women for Justice-Legal Aid Institute (LBH APIK-
Jakarta), demanded the authorities compensated Imas for the delay
in her release from prison.

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