Indonesian prosecutors want long jail sentence for parliament bomber

Indonesian prosecutors want long jail sentence for parliament bomber

Indonesian prosecutors demanded on Wednesday a 10-year prison term for a man accused of bombing the national parliament building last year.

Prosecutor Eri Satriana told the Central Jakarta court that evidence and witness testimony showed that Aditya Warman, alias Adi, 24, planted a bomb which damaged an air conditioner control room at parliament last July. No one was hurt.

Prosecutors say Warman is a member of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), which has been fighting for independence for the province since 1976.

Another man also accused of planting the bomb, Fadli Hasan, will be tried separately.

Warman and Hasan, both from Meulaboh in West Aceh, were arrested in Bekasi east of Jakarta last August. Police say they found a bomb and bombmaking materials in Warman's house.

The trial will resume on May 19 to hear the defense plea. Judges are not bound by the demanded sentence if they find Warman guilty.

Police have blamed several bombings on GAM, including a blast at the stock exchange building in September 2000 which killed 10 people and at a mall in Cijantung in east Jakarta in July 2002 which injured seven.

GAM has also been blamed for a blast near the UN office in Jakarta in 2003 which caused no injuries and one at Jakarta's Sukarno-Hatta airport which wounded two people seriously the same year.

The separatist group denies involvement. -- AFP