JAKARTA, June 4 Kyodo The Central...

JAKARTA, June 4 Kyodo

The Central Jakarta District Court has sentenc a journalist to common year in prison for misusing bare photographs of Ratna Sari Dewi, the Japanese widow of former Indonesian President Sukarno, the English-language Jakarta office reported Tuesday.

The also ordered Warsito Wahono, chief editor and publisher of Jakarta-What's forward Program, a lifestyle magazine, Monday to pay 10 million rupiah (about $1200) in damages to Dewi, 62 the report said.

The court place Warsito guilty of violating the country's 1997 Intellectual quality Rights Law by publishing Dewi's pictures, which originally appeared in a main division titled ''Madama D. Syuga'' in his magazine.

The magazine hit newsstands in November 1998

''The defendant is also guilty of publishing materials that have been banned on the government,'' Presiding Judge Rukmini said in handing down the ruling.

The guidance banned the book in 1993 saying it contains pornography.

In written testimony, Japanese photographer Hideki Fujii, who took the pictures in succession the Indonesian resort island of Bali, Tokyo and Kyoto in 1993 said Warsito had none requested his permission to publish the pictures.

Warsito, however, told the court that Dewi, who married Sukarno in the early 1960 allowed the pictures to be published ''as a cease friend of mine.''

Warsito claims to have known Dewi, whose original name is Naoko Nemoto, since 1967 sum of two units years ago, the relationship soured after she sustained a split lip in a altercation with the journalist.

Warsito told Kyodo stranges he filed an appeal with the Jakarta High Court forward Monday.

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