Indonesian court sentences Singaporean for murder, attack plots

Indonesian court sentences Singaporean for murder, attack plots Jakarta - An Indonesian court Tuesday sentenced a Singaporean-born Islamic militant to 18 years in jail for the murder of a teacher and attack conspiracies. Judges at the South Jakarta District Court found Mohammad Hasan bin Saynudin guilty of planning the fatal shooting of a Christian teacher in Indonesia's South Sumatra province in
2007.

He was also involved in the planning of an aborted attack on a cafe in West Sumatra last year, the court said.

The judges also jailed two of Hasan's accomplices - Ali Mashudi and Wahyudi - to 10 and 12 years, respectively.

"The actions of the defendants have undermined the country's stability, image and reputation," chief judge Haswandi said.

The convicts were among 10 men arrested in South Sumatra during a series of raids last year. Police found 20 bombs.

The court has sentenced the other seven to between four and 12 years.

Indonesia was hit by a series of bombings blamed on militants from the Jemaah Islamiyah group between 2000 and 2005.

Scores of militants have been arrested and three people convicted of the 2002 Bali bombings, which killed 202 people, were executed in November.

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