JSX bombers get 20-year jail each

JSX bombers get 20-year jail each

JAKARTA (JP): The South Jakarta District Court sentenced two
defendants to 20-years imprisonment each on Monday for their role
in last year's bombing of the Jakarta Stock Exchange building,
which killed 10 people and injured 46 others.

The verdict was presented by the presiding judge, Rusman Dani
Achmad, during the trial of Tengku Ismuhadi Jafar, 30 and
Nuryadin alias Nadin, 29.

Prosecutor Endang Rachwan had earlier asked the court to give
Jafar a death sentence and Nuryadin a life sentence.

Nuryadin was tried in absentia since he escaped from Cipinang
Penitentiary in East Jakarta last month.

Jafar, who looked calm during the trial, said that he
respected the verdict.

"It is more 'humane' than the sentence request demanded by the
prosecutor," he said.

However, he insisted that he was framed by investigators.

"I will file an appeal since I am innocent. I will go anywhere
in the world to seek justice, I am even ready for an
international trial," he remarked.

The court rejected Jafar's defense about being framed by
investigators.

"It is hard to understand how investigators could create a
description that is so very complete and accurate, unless the
suspects admitted it themselves," judge Rusman said.

The court found Jafar guilty of planning the bombing,
utilizing his auto repair shop to make the bomb and delivering it
to the JSX building on Sept. 13, 2000, while Nuryadin was proven
guilty of assembling and delivering the bomb.

The bombing was meant to damage the country's economy and
particularly to increase the strength of the dollar against the
rupiah, according to the judge.

On Sept. 11, 2000, Jafar went to the parking lot in the JSX
building basement along with the other suspects, Irwan and
Ibrahim Amd bin Abdul Wahab, to reveal the location where the
bomb would be put.

The next day, Nuryadin bought 43 TNT (trinitrotoluene) bars,
as ordered by Irwan, a former member of the Army's Special Force
(Kopassus). They, along with Ibrahim Amd bin Abdul Wahab and
Corp. Ibrahim Hasan, a former member of Army's Strategic Reserve
Command (Kostrad), made the bomb with the TNT bars.

On the same day, Jafar withdrew Rp 176 million from Bank BNI
to buy dollars.

Two days later, Nuryadin put the bomb to a Toyota Mark II car.
He, Jafar and Ibrahim Amd bin Abdul Wahab then went to JSX
building in Jafar's car. Irwan followed Jafar's car in the Toyota
Mark II.

Irwan was the one who detonated the bomb in the parking lot of
the building.

Meanwhile, Jafar's lawyer, Johnson Panjaitan from the
Indonesian Legal Aid and Human Rights Association said the court
failed to reveal the motive of the bombing.

"I feel very disappointed that the court revealed the facts
that had been manipulated by investigators," he said. (04)