TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Popular Reads
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search results
Popular Reads
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search resultsLax security to blame for terrorist's escape
Law and Human Rights Minister Amir Syamsuddin said that lax security could be blamed for the escape of a militant serving a 19-year prison sentence for beheading three Christian schoolgirls in Poso, Central Sulawesi
Change text size
Gift Premium Articles
to Anyone
Share the best of The Jakarta Post with friends, family, or colleagues. As a subscriber, you can gift 3 to 5 articles each month that anyone can read—no subscription needed!
L
aw and Human Rights Minister Amir Syamsuddin said that lax security could be blamed for the escape of a militant serving a 19-year prison sentence for beheading three Christian schoolgirls in Poso, Central Sulawesi.
Amir said that the Ampana Penitentiary, where the terror convict Basri was held, only dispatched one prison guard to watch over the convict while he was visiting his sick wife.
'There was only one guard. This is below the standard,' Amir said as quoted by tribunnews.com.
He said that officials from the ministry, in collaboration with the local police, have launched a manhunt for Basri.
Basri, who was arrested along with five other militants in February 2007, admitted to beheading one of the three girls in late 2005 as they walked to school along a quiet jungle path overlooking Poso.
