Whilst blaring disco music played on, prison inmates, one by one, congratulated Yusman Telaumbanua. I couldnt sleep last night. My heart was racing. I never imagined I would be free, Yusman said in his broken Indonesian. On the morning of last Thursday, Yusman became a star among the class IIB inmates of the Gunungsitoli prison in Nias, North Sumatra. Everyone wished him well as he prepared to walk out of prison a free man.

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