Indonesian influencer given seven-year Myanmar prison sentence

FILE PHOTO: A police truck leaves from Insein Prison in Yangon on October 18, 2021. An Indonesian influencer has been sentenced to seven years in this prison for meeting with rebels in junta-ruled Myanmar. - AFP

JAKARTA: An Indonesian influencer has been sentenced to seven years in prison for meeting with rebels in junta-ruled Myanmar, a foreign ministry official in Jakarta said Wednesday (July 2).

Myanmar has been consumed by a many-sided civil war since the military snatched power in a 2021 coup, with millions of people displaced, according to United Nations figures.