Indonesia Releases
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Prisoners
INDONESIAN judges have been ordered to release all prisoners who have been awaiting trial for long periods and whose guilt has not been convincingly proved.
This has been done, it was explained, because there is a shortage of prison space and a shortage of judges.
But the official statement said nothing about the 13 or 14 Dutch men who have been held for some two or three years, without trial, in Indonesian gaols—it is not known whether they are affected by the order. The most bitterly persecuted of the Dutch prisoners, Leon Jungschlaeger, former head of the KLM, eventually escaped from the Indonesians by dying from a cerebral haemorrhage a few weeks ago (May PIM).
T The golfing season recently re opened in Tonga. The Tonga Golf Club has a membership of 30 mem bers.