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View all search resultsA Jakarta court handed a 12-year sentence to Syahrial Alamsyah, 51, and nine years to his wife Fitria Diana, 21, after convicting them on terrorism charges for trying to kill then security minister Wiranto in October last year.
The defendant was reportedly concerned that he would be placed on the police’s most-wanted list for being affiliated with the Islamic State group-linked Jamaah Ansharut Daulah, driving him to retaliate against authorities.
Such extremist clerics are intellectual actors who are often difficult to be snared by the current Indonesian penal system, as it is hard to prove who are the masterminds of violence and murder under the current Terrorism Law.
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