SURABAYA: A district court here on Thursday sentenced a

SURABAYA: A district court here on Thursday sentenced a JP/4/C07 used by the Bali bombers to make explosives.

Silvester Tendean, who owns a chemical store in the East Java capital of Surabaya, was found guilty of possessing and selling two metric tons (2.2 U.S. tons) of potassium chlorate to Amrozi, a key suspect in the Bali bombings.

Potassium chlorate was used to make explosives in the Oct. 12 nightclub blasts that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists, on the resort island of Bali.

Tendean is the first person to be tried in connection with the Bali blasts. Amrozi's trial is expected to begin within weeks in Bali's capital, Denpasar.

"The defendant has been found ... guilty of possessing, storing and selling illegal explosives," said Judge Muhammad Alim.

Tendean had told the court that he did not know the chemical would be used to make explosives. - AP