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Jailed impersonator granted conditional leave
JAKARTA: Rahmat Sulistyo, aka Icha, who made headlines for falsifying documents and claiming to be a woman in order to marry a man, was released on parole on Tuesday after serving six of an eight-month prison sentence at Bulak Kapal prison in Bekasi, West Java
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AKARTA: Rahmat Sulistyo, aka Icha, who made headlines for falsifying documents and claiming to be a woman in order to marry a man, was released on parole on Tuesday after serving six of an eight-month prison sentence at Bulak Kapal prison in Bekasi, West Java.
“I am free after I received a conditional early leave of around two months from Bulak Kapal prison,” Rahmat said Friday, adding that he was happy to be released.
“I will try to be a man again,” he said as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.
Rahmat said that he was also seeking employment.
He was imprisoned after Umar, who married Rahmat in 2010, discovered that Rahmat was in fact a man. Umar then filed charges against Rahmat, who he had met via Facebook.
