A Promise Goes Up in Smoke
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
A CLASS 6 primary school student is imprisoned at the Muarabulian jail in Jambi. His body is thin, eyes sunken. In three more months Hendra was to have sat his final exams. But now he is completely broken. “I don’t want to take the exam,” he said. Earlier this month, a panel of judges at the Batanghari District Court sentenced him to three months in jail. Presiding judge Junita Betrix found Hendra guilty of stealing palm oil. Prior to being
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