Court acquits bombing suspect

Court acquits bombing suspect

JAKARTA (JP): The East Jakarta District Court has acquitted an
Acehnese student, who earlier faced a possible 15-year prison
sentence for his alleged role in the bombing of the Jakarta Stock
Exchange building.

Presiding judge Mansyur Nasution said in the verdict announced
on Friday that there was no strong evidence proving that Iswadi
H. Jamil had acted as a middleman in the purchase of 43 bars of
TNT (trinitrotuluene) that was later used in the JSX building
bombing.

Prosecutor Agus Widodo had earlier told the court that Iswadi
bought the explosives at a price of Rp 21.5 million for Corp.
Ibrahim Hasan, who then gave the defendant Rp 400,000 for his
help. Iswadi bought the explosives from Edi Wanda, following
advice from Muklis and Rani, according to the prosecutor.

Ibrahim, Edi, Muklis and Rani, however, are all still at
large.

On Monday, the South Jakarta District Court sentenced Iswadi
to seven years in jail for his involvement in a grenade explosion
at the Malaysian Embassy.

Iswadi was one of eight people who were tried in relation to
the JSX bombing in September 2000, and in the blast at the
Malaysian Embassy in August last year.