Bali bomber’s wife gets 27 months for immigration violations

Rukayah, the wife of 2002 Bali bomb top suspect Umar Patek, was sentenced to 27 months in jail for immigration violations on Wednesday.

“Her detention period will be subtracted from her sentence,” presiding judge Suharjono read from the verdict at the East Jakarta District Court as reported by tempo.co.

Rukayah binti Husein Luceno alias Fatimah Zahra, a Filipino citizen, has been detained since August 2011.

Suharjono said Rukayah used a false Indonesian passport based on false birth and family certificates.

She changed her name to Fatima Zahra and changed her birth date from Jan. 6, 1990, to May 13, 1984.

She also changed her father’s name from Husein Luceno to Hasan Soleh and her mother’s name from Siti Aisyah to Sri Rahayu.

Rukayah’s husband Umar Patek has also been in police custody at the National Police Mobile Brigade’s detention center in Kelapa Dua, Depok since Aug. 17 following his transfer from Pakistani authorities to the Indonesian government.

He is one of the main suspects in the Bali bombings that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, after attacks on the Sari Club and Paddy's Bar in Kuta, and the US consulate in Renon.

Patek is wanted in Indonesia, the Philippines, the US and Australia, with a US$1 million bounty on his head. He is also known as a close associate of deceased terrorist Dulmatin, the alleged bomb maker of the Bali attacks.

Patek is also suspected of being a field commander at a Jamaah Islamiyah training camp in Mindanao in the Philippines, where the masterminds of the 2002 Bali bombings, including deceased Noordin Top of Malaysia, were trained.