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JAKARTA - A court in Indonesia has sentenced two leaders of the Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist network to 15 years in prison. The network is blamed for the 2002 Bali bombings. The self-proclaimed leaders, Abu Dujana and Zarkasih, were sentenced in the district court of South Jakarta.Both were arrested in separate police raids in June 2007. They were finally found guilty of helping terrorists and possessing, storing and moving weapons.
The charges under anti-terrorism laws in the world's largest Muslim nation did not relate specifically to the bombings of crowded bars at the resort island of Bali which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians. But Jemaah Islamiyah is accused of organizing the coordinated attacks and one of the alleged terrorists Dujana was convicted of protecting was Malaysian national Noordin Mohammad Top, one of the suspected Bali masterminds. Top remains at large and is believed to be hiding somewhere in Indonesia.
Zarkasih, who is aged in his 40s and like many Indonesians only uses one name, is understood to have led the extremist group in 2004, before Dujana, 37, rose to prominence as the leader of the organization's military wing. "He knew about the firearms and ammunition that were to be used for terror purposes but he did not report this," Judge Risdianto said of Zarkasih. "He also did not provide information although he new that there were movements taking place that tended towards terrorism."
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