JAKARTA, Indonesia—More than 30 people gathered at the Cuban Embassy here Sept. 18 to hear Enna Viant Valdés (inset), the Cuban ambassador to Indonesia, speak about the Cuban Revolution and the international campaign to free the Cuban Five.

The meeting, conducted in English and Bahasa Indonesia, included students and teachers from three universities, as well as members of the Indonesia-Cuba Friendship Association and of Kalyanamitra, a women’s foundation based here.

Students at Budi Luhur University enlivened the discussion with questions about the case of the five. Armed with a new copy of the booklet, The Cuban Five: Who They Are, Why They Were framed, Why They Should Be Free, they expressed enthusiasm for organizing an event to build support for the five on their campus.

The five Cuban revolutionaries—Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González—have been in U.S. custody since they were arrested and framed up in 1998.

—LINDA HARRIS