Key Bali bombers to move to Nusakambangan prison

Key Bali bombers to move to Nusakambangan prison

The authorities plan to move 28 people convicted for the Bali
bombings, including three key players on death row, from a jail
in Bali to prisons in Central Java province, an official has
said.

"It is still a plan but we want to move 28 Bali bombing
convicts to jails in Central Java for security reasons," the head
of the Central Java justice office, Marsono, said on Monday.

Marsono said four jails, including the top-security prison on
Nusakambangan island in Cilacap regency, would take 28 convicts
currently held at Kerobokan jail near Denpasar in Bali.

"It is a plan that has been told to me but there is as yet no
date or other details available," Marsono said, adding that the
information had come from the justice ministry in Jakarta.
He declined to provide further details.

The 28 include three sentenced to death for their key roles in
the October 2002 blasts that killed 202 people -- mechanic
Amrozi, his elder brother Ali Ghufron alias Mukhlas and the
operation's alleged commander, Imam Samudra.

The head of the Kerobokan jail in Bali, Bromo Setiono, said he
had not heard of such a plan but would comply with any ministry
decision.

Courts in Bali sentenced 33 people for the bombings, which
were carried out by the Al Qaeda-linked Jamaah Islamiyah terror
group.

Apart from the three sentenced to death by firing squad, four
others were given life sentences and the remainder received jail
terms ranging from 16 years to three years.

Five of the lesser offenders were moved to Java jails last
year. --AFP