JAKARTA. South Jakarta District Court chief Yusuf says that the case files received by the court from the National Police on suspected terrorist Abu Bakar Baasyir contain a host of alleged crimes."There are seven levels of charges," Yusuf said on Wednesday, including provoking a movement and funding terrorism, which carry sentences ranging from three years’ to life imprisonment.The firebrand Muslim cleric was arrested in August in Ciamis, West Java, by officers from Detachment 88, the National Police's counterterrorism unit.The police have alleged that Baasyir, the leader of the Ngruki Islamic boarding school in Surakarta, Central Java, actively prepared a training camp to support the Al Qaeda in Southeast Asia terrorist group. (Mariel Grazella/The Jakarta Post)
Baasyir dossiers replete with multiple charges: Court
JAKARTA. South Jakarta District Court chief Yusuf says that the case files received by the court from the National Police on suspected terrorist Abu Bakar Baasyir contain a host of alleged crimes."There are seven levels of charges," Yusuf said on Wednesday, including provoking a movement and funding terrorism, which carry sentences ranging from three years’ to life imprisonment.The firebrand Muslim cleric was arrested in August in Ciamis, West Java, by officers from Detachment 88, the National Police's counterterrorism unit.The police have alleged that Baasyir, the leader of the Ngruki Islamic boarding school in Surakarta, Central Java, actively prepared a training camp to support the Al Qaeda in Southeast Asia terrorist group. (Mariel Grazella/The Jakarta Post)