Indonesia court raises sentence of 2002 bomb suspect to life

0 Comments | Asian Political News, July 22, 2002

JAKARTA, July 18 Kyodo

Indonesia's Supreme Court on Thursday raised the jail sentence imposed on a defendant in the 2000 bombing of the Jakarta Stock Exchange building that killed 10 people and injured 46 others, from 20 years to imprisonment for life.

The court announced the stiffer sentence in rejecting an appeal by Tengku Ismuhadi Jafar, 30, to lighten his penalty.

In August last year, the South Jakarta District Court sentenced Jafar and another defendant, Nuryadin, to 20 years in prison each for their roles in the bombing. Nuryadin, who escaped from jail in July last year, was tried in absentia.

Jafar kept repeating that he is innocent and said he will go anywhere in the world, including in an international court, to seek justice.

The South Jakarta District Court found Jafar guilty of planning the bombing, using his auto repair shop to make the bomb and transporting it to the stock exchange building on Sept. 13, 2000. Nuryadin was found guilty of assembling and delivering the bomb.