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BREAKING: Prosecutors demand death for pro-IS cleric Aman Abdurrahman
Prosecutors have demanded that pro-Islamic State (IS) cleric Aman Abdurrahman be sentenced to death for allegedly inspiring a series of terror attacks on Indonesian soil.
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rosecutors have demanded that pro-Islamic State (IS) cleric Aman Abdurrahman be sentenced to death for allegedly inspiring a series of terror attacks on Indonesian soil.
“We demand that the panel of judges […] find Oman Rochman, alias Aman Abdurrahman, alias Abu Sulaiman, guilty of committing an act of terrorism […] and sentence him to death,” said prosecutor Anita Dewayani.
The prosecution team made the sentence demand at the South Jakarta District Court during Friday's hearing, when they also read out the indictment against Aman.
Aman, widely known as the influential jihadi ideologue among Islamist militants grouped under the local Jamaah Ansharud Daulah (JAD) terror group, has been accused of inspiring at least three major terror attacks in 2016 and 2017.
The attacks include the Jan. 14, 2016 Thamrin bombing and shootout that killed four people, the Nov. 13, 2016 Samarinda church bombing that killed a toddler, and the May 25, 2017 Kampung Melayu twin bombings that killed three policemen.
A JAD member testified in court that Aman had inspired the establishment of the radical group, which is said to be the largest pro-IS group in the country.
The JAD has been blamed for the recent string of terror attacks in the past several days, including the deadly riot at the National Police’s Mobile Brigade headquarters (Mako Brimob) in Depok, West Java, and a series of bombings that killed at least 13 people in Surabaya and Sidoarjo, East Java.
Aman, who was being held in a separate block at the Mako Brimob detention center from the instigators of the riot, reportedly played a role in ending the 36-hour standoff between terror inmates and police. The standoff on May 8-9 ensued after 10 terror inmates linked to JAD killed five members of the police’s Densus 88 elite counterterrorism squad and took one other member hostage following the initial riot, which then escalated.
The hearing was originally scheduled for Friday a week ago, but prosecutors were unable to gain access to the detention center to transport Aman to the courthouse, as the police had locked down the facility in the aftermath of the incident. (ahw)
