Dossiers on West Java bombings completed

BANDUNG (JP): Police handed over on Tuesday dossiers on ten suspects in the Christmas Eve bombings in West Java to the provincial Prosecutors' Office, a senior prosecutor said on Wednesday.

Warman Suherman, who is in charge of general crimes at the provincial Prosecutors' Office, told reporters here that the dossiers were of Aceng Suhari, Iqbal, Oji, Ajo, Piping, Nana, Karso, Pendi, Maman and Abdul Hadi.

Aceng, 59, was the key suspect in the bomb blast on Jl. Terusan, Jakarta, on the afternoon of Dec. 24, in which four people were killed, while Iqbal, 40, was the key suspect in all of the bombings in West Java on that day.

According to the dossiers, Aceng and Iqbal violated Emergency Law No. 12/1951 on possession and use of explosives. "The two could be charged with the death penalty or a life sentence, while the lightest sentence would be 12 years imprisonment," Warman said.

"They are also charged with violating articles 55 and 56 of the Criminal Code as they had ordered somebody else to commit the crimes."

The other eight suspects are accused of hiding people, who are wanted for criminal actions. They are subject to nine months imprisonment.

Aceng and Iqbal escaped soon after the bomb blasts at Aceng's building in Bandung and at other places in Pangandaran, Ciamis, and Sukabumi. They were arrested in their hideout in the town of Tegal, Central Java, early this month.

"We've studied the dossiers. Those of Aceng and Iqbal are incomplete, meaning that the other eight are ready to be transferred to the District Court for legal proceedings," Warman said. "The police should complete the two dossiers within two weeks, or else the questioning should be repeated."

In a separate interview, West Java Police detectives chief Sr. Comr. Sardjono said police were continuing to hunt for the other bomb suspects, despite the completion of the ten dossiers.

As earlier reported Iqbal claimed that a man identified as Hambali alias Ridwan, who is now in Malaysia, was the mastermind of the Christmas Eve bombings in West Java.

"We've sent two officers to Malaysia to cooperate with Interpol to find Hambali."

Meanwhile, other dossiers of two other suspects in the bombing case, Roni and Agus were just completed by the police after the Prosecutors' Office turned them down earlier this month for being incomplete. (25/sur)