Four get 10-year jail term for storing bomb materials<\/p>\n
Suherdjoko, Semarang<\/p>\n
Four men accused of storing bomb-making materials were each
\nsentenced to 10 years imprisonment by the Semarang District Court
\non Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The four suspects were identified as Machmudi Hariono alias
\nYoseph Adirima alias Yusuf from Jombang, East Java; Joko
\nArdiyanto alias Luluk alias Abdullah from Salam, Magelang,
\nCentral Java; Siswanto alias Antok from Pati, Central Java; and
\nSuyatno alias Heru Setiawan from Magetan, East Java.<\/p>\n
The four defendants objected to the sentence and sought leave
\nto appeal.<\/p>\n
One of the defendants, Yusuf, said that 10 years in jail was
\ntoo much.<\/p>\n
\"I didn't know they were bomb-making materials. I also object
\nto the fact that they called me a terrorist. I'll demand that I
\nbe set free,\" he said.<\/p>\n
The leader of the defendants' defense team, Yasri Yuda Yahya,
\nechoed this sentiment, saying: \"The sentence is too harsh.
\nThey're not the ones who are responsible for this. Thus, I'll do
\neverything I can to have them set free,\" said Yasri.<\/p>\n
The defendants were reportedly recruited by Mustofa alias
\nImron, who was found guilty of the Marriott Bombing that took
\nplace on October 12, 2002, claiming 12 lives. Imron received a
\nseven-year prison sentence for his role in the bombing.<\/p>\n
According to Semarang Police Headquarters, the four suspects
\nwere arrested at their rented house between July 8 and July 11,
\n2003, in Semarang.<\/p>\n
The police found 25 sacks of potassium chlorate, each weighing
\n30 kilograms; 9,000 5.56 milimeter bullets; 1,800 9 milimeter
\nbullets; 910 4.5 milimeter bullets; 21 M-14 bullets; around 1,000
\nnon-electronic detonators; 25 electronic detonators; 65 packages
\nof explosive materials; four boxes of TriNitro Tolluene (TNT); 11
\nhand-made rockets; a gun; a pistol; and books on how to make
\nbombs.<\/p>\n
They were charged under Government Regulation in Lieu of Law
\nNo. 1\/2002 and Law No. 15\/2003 on terrorism.<\/p>\n
The defendants pleaded not guilty, saying that they met Imron
\nin December 2002 and accepted the boxes from him without knowing
\nwhat was inside them.<\/p>\n
One of the defendants, Luluk, met Imron in Solo, Central Java,
\nwhere the former received jihadist religious instruction. He knew
\nthat Imron had received military training from the mujahideen in
\nAfghanistan in 1987\/1988, and had instructed terrorists at the Al
\nIslami Al Jamaah terrorist training camp in Muaskar Udaibiyah,
\nthe Southern Philippines, in the same year.<\/p>\n
Luluk was then sent to \"Camp Udaibiyah\", another terrorist
\ntraining camp, in the Southern Philippines in July 2001. There,
\nhe received military training for four months before coming back
\nto Indonesia in May 2002.<\/p>\n
According to the panel of four judges, Luluk also received
\ntraining in the Philippines on how to make bombs.<\/p>\n
The three other defendants also spent between 4 and eight
\nmonths in terrorist training camps.<\/p>",
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