Pubdate: Sat, 04 Jun 2005
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Australia Web)
Copyright: 2005 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Website: http://www.abc.net.au/
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PROTESTERS DEMAND DEATH FOR CORBY

About 40 people picketed in Jakarta to demand the death sentence for
Schapelle Corby, the Australian who was convicted of drug trafficking
in Bali.

The protesters also condemned a security scare at the Indonesian
embassy in Canberra.

A powder sent to the Canberra embassy on Wednesday sparked fears of an
anthrax attack and was linked to outrage in Australia over a 20-year
jail term handed to Corby.

Carrying signs reading "Corby, drug dealer, must die", the protesters
outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta urged the Bali courts to
reject her appeal and sentence her to death, as allowed under
Indonesian law.

Another placard read, "Intervention no! Australia is supplier of
drugs".

A leader of the protest, Beathor Suryadi, said the attack on the
embassy "deeply pains" many Indonesians.

"What happened in Canberra is an insult to our integrity," he told the
crowd.

The embassy was closed and isolated for two days after white powder
spilled from a letter addressed to ambassador Imron Cotan.

The embassy resumed activities on Friday.

Australian police said the powder contained a bacteria belonging to
the same family that hosts the deadly disease anthrax but it was harmless.

Construction work is still under way at the Australian embassy in
Jakarta eight months after a suicide bomber killed nine people outside
the mission last September.

Protection at the mission has been heightened since the attack, which
was blamed on the Al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah organisation. 
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