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Indonesian Political Prisoners Moved Close to Home

Expand Indonesian plainclothes police arrest Johan Teterisa (third from left) outside the Merdeka Stadium in Ambon on June 29, 2007. Teterisa led Alifuru nationalists in unfurling the banned RMS flag while performing the traditional cakalele dance before President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and other dignitaries. © 2007 Agung Setyahadi/Kompas Indonesian authorities have moved six Moluccan political prisoners from a remote high-security prison island to an ordinary prison close to home, in Ambon, the provincial capital of the Moluccan Islands. Semuel Waileruny, the prisoners’ lawyer, said the…


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