Malaysian, Indonesian jailed for hotel bombing
13.08.2009, 18:55
An Indonesian court jailed two militants, one of them from Malaysia, on Wednesday for involvement in the 2003 bombing of the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta that killed 12 people. Budapest cheap hotels
Sunarto, a 56-year-old Indonesian man also known as Adung, was jailed for seven years for providing assistance to the bomb makers and possession of a firearm.
Prosecutors had asked for 10 years.
"The defendant is proven to have intentionally given assistance to terror criminals by concealing information of their whereabouts," said Judge Efran Basuning of the South Jakarta Court.
"The defendant knew that Noordin M. Top was a fugitive ... but he did not report to the police," the judge said, referring to a Malaysian national accused of planning and carrying out a string of deadly blasts, including the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, most of them foreign tourists.
A Malaysian man, Sabtu Rani, 30, also known as Ruslan bin Abdul Hamid, was sentenced to four years, less than the seven demanded by prosecutors.
The court said he had hidden information on the whereabouts of fellow militants from the police.
Two Malaysian fugitives, Noordin M. Top and Azahari bin Husin, are accused by Indonesian authorities and many foreign governments of being key players in the al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah militant network operating in Asia.
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