Singaporean man sentenced to 18 yrs in Indonesia

[Coventina]

Source: Reuters

JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesian court sentenced a Singaporean man to 18 years in jail for planning bomb attacks and for teaching members of militant group Jemaah Islamiah to make bombs, a judge in the South Jakarta court said on Tuesday.

Mohammad Hasan bin Saynudin, 35, was among 10 men arrested in South Sumatra last year and charged under the anti-terrorism law with plotting to kill three priests and a Christian school teacher, and to blow up a cafe.

Police also found a cache of 20 bombs in several houses during the same raid in and around South Sumatra's provincial capital, Palembang, about 425 km (265 miles) from Jakarta.

"The defendant is legitimately and convincingly guilty of committing terrorism," judge Haswandi told the court.



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