Indonesian authorities are reported to have released two journalists jailed for insulting the Government.

The Jakarta Post newspaper says Achmad Taufik and Eko Mariyadi were released on parole on Saturday after serving nearly two-thirds of their three-year sentences.

The two were jailed in 1995 for insulting the Government in a publication by the unrecognised Independent Journalists' Association.

Mr Taufik was the head of the presidium of the A-J-I, which was set up in 1994 to promote press freedom in Indonesia after three leading publications were banned.