Wed Aug 19, 2009JAKARTA (Reuters) - Senior Southeast Asian officials are meeting in Jakarta to debate whether to call on Myanmar to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Indonesia said on Wednesday.
Suu Kyi, who has spent 14 of the last 20 years in detention, was sentenced last week to a further 18 months of house arrest for violating an internal security law after an American man swam to her lakeside home uninvited.
Senior officials from the 10-member Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) were meeting for dinner on Wednesday and then will hold more talks on Thursday, possibly going into Friday, to discuss sending a letter to Myanmar's ruling junta.
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