Indonesian jailed

Indonesian jailed
for SMS bomb hoax

An Indonesian salesman who sent two hoax SMS bomb threats while
in Malaysia's northern Penang state was sentenced Wednesday to 25
months in jail, a report said. The 23-year-old from the
Indonesian town of Medan, named Kurniawan, received two jail
sentences of 12 and 13 months and was fined 5,000 ringgit
(US$1,326) for the hoax, which sparked a security scare in
Penang, the official Bernama news agency said. He had previously
admitted sending two SMS threats to police in August, saying
bombs would explode at an airport and a shopping complex in
Penang. Bernama said that one message read: "Hello, I'm one of
Al-Qaeda member. I want to tell you about Libenny. He is on his
way to the Penang International Airport. He wants to put a bomb
there and then hijack the Lion Airlines. I don't want see any
incident in Malaysia. I love Malaysia". A lawyer for Kurniawan
said his client regretted his actions and did not realize how
serious they were. Malaysia has started a campaign to register
millions of pre-paid mobile phone subscribers to prevent the
untraceable handsets being used to send threatening or slanderous
messages. -- AFP