PRISON CELLS
Paradise Lost...for Now

The furor over Ayin’s luxurious prison cell led to the removal of the Pondok Bambu prison warden. The government is setting aside Rp1 trillion to upgrade the country’s jails.

January 19, 2010

THE three women entered the 2.5-meter-square cell with sour looks on their faces. At midnight on Thursday last week, Artalyta Suryani, Darmawati Dareho and Liem Marita “officially” became new inmates of the Tangerang Women’s Prison after being transferred from their luxury cells at the Pondok Bambu jail in East Jakarta.

In her new home, Ayin, as Artalyta is called, will have to share a simple foam mattress with her two other cellmates. The

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