JAKARTA - An Indonesian court has sentenced a British academic to five months jail for violating visa regulations after she and an American woman were accused of associating with rebels in the province of Aceh. Lesley McCulloch, 40, and American Joy Lee Sadler, 57, were arrested on September 11 accused of having pamphlets of the Free Aceh Movement. The court in the provincial capital Banda Aceh sentenced Ms McCulloch to five months jail after finding she violated her tourist visa. She will be freed in about six weeks because time already served has been taken into account. Damien Kingsbury of Deakin University says he spoke with her a few days ago and she was coping reasonably well with her ordeal.
"At that time she was bearing up reasonably well in the circumstances but not surprisingly it's been a bit of an emotional rollercoaster for her," said Mr Kingsbury, who worked with Ms McCulloch in Australia. "She's a fairly forthright woman and has got a great deal of personal strength but there have been moments when she's felt the pressure and not surprisingly been pretty unhappy about the way things have been going."
Ms Sadler is yet to be sentenced.
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JAKARTA - An Indonesian court has sentenced a British academic to five months jail for violating visa regulations after she and an American woman were accused of associating with rebels in the province of Aceh. Lesley McCulloch, 40, and American Joy Lee Sadler, 57, were arrested on September 11 accused of having pamphlets of the Free Aceh Movement.
