A Governor Goes Down

Although Abdullah Puteh was sentenced to 10 years in prison, two of the judges on the judicial panel delivered dissenting opinions.

April 19, 2005

FORMER Aceh Governor Abdullah Puteh was clearly shocked upon hearing the court verdict. Having spent the morning in bed in the VVIP Diamond Room at the Mohammad Husni Thamrin Hospital in Jakarta, Puteh finally forced himself to get up and perform his daily sholat prayers, before heading to the Bank Uppindo building in Kuningan, South Jakarta to face the court verdict. "Father, give us strength," his wife Marlinda Poernomo prayed, f

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