A victim of Indonesia's anti-communist purge of the 1960s has finally cleared her name after almost three decades.

The Jakarta Post has reported Nani Nurani, who was jailed without trial between 1968 and 1976 because she once danced at a communist party social function, has won the right to a permanent identification card at the age of 62.

A Jakarta court has ordered officials in the city to give Nurani the card and has ruled that she has no affiliation to the Indonesian Communist Party, which remains a banned organisation.

Three years after an attempted coup in 1965 which was blamed on the communist party, Nurani was jailed without trial. She was freed in 1976 but was forced to carry an ID card which identified her as a former political prisoner. After the fall of President Suharto in 1998, Indonesia abolished ID cards.