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| Indonesia: Muslim separatists sentenced for treason |
| 2008-12-19 |
| An Indonesian court sentenced two people on Friday of trying to establish a separatist Indonesian Islamic State, to serve three and two and a half years in prison respectively. Those convicted were local officials H. Suganda, 63, vice governor turned head of information for southern West Java and Dedi Mulyadi, regent for Cianjur-Sukabumi. The verdict, reached at Bandung District Court, is lighter than five years in jail demanded by prosecutor Solihin last week. The prosecutors had accused Suganda and Dedi of recruiting new members and leading them to pledge separation from the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia. Dedi and Suganda are alleged to be linked to the separatist Negara Islam Indonesia Movement, or NII. Presiding Judge Joni Santosa told Indonesian website kompas.com on Friday that both defendants had been proven to have violated article 107 of Criminal Code on treason. “They have carried out their own law that do not recognised on the government's existence and led to separation. Also, their activities have disturbed people's lives,” he said. Also: Bandung District Court sentenced on Friday seventeen activists of Indonesia Islamic State, a group which continue the objective of Darul Islam to form an Islamic state since Darul Islam was founded in 1948 by Indonesian freedom fighters in West Java. The 17 defendents were sentenced to between two and four years in jail. The Islamic movement's activists were rounded up in April this year but the actual number of the organization, said to have run its own of government system in parts of West Java, was not known. The court charges the defendants with treachery for violating at least six articles in the criminal codes. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #1 Two to four years in jail!! Those Indonesian courts are really mean! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-12-19 16:24 |