The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
Twelve men were sentenced on Thursday to three to six months’ imprisonment for various charges, starting from limited involvement to masterminding the riot that led to the deaths of 3 minority Ahmadiyah sect members in Banten.
Three Ahmadiyah members were savagely beaten to death by an unruly mob of Islamic hard-liners in Cikeusik, Banten in February 2011.
Three panels of judges at the Serang District Court levied six month sentences on Kh. Ujang Arif bin Abuya, Kh Muhammad Munir, Kh Endang, the local clerics who masterminded the fatal riot, and on Adam Damini bin Arman, Ujang Bin Sohari and Muhammad bin Syarif.
“[Ujang Arif] has been convincingly proven to have incited the people and thus encouraging them to commit a crime,” presiding judge Rusmanto said at Ujang’s trial on Thursday as quoted by Antara.
The defendants’ lawyer, Agus Setiawan from the Muslim Defenders Team, said the judges had overlooked potentially exculpatory evidence. “Our clients had been lured to the brawl because they were provoked by the Ahmadiyah followers.”
Hard-liner groups alleged that the violence followed fruitless discussions between the Amadiyah followers and Muslim hard-liners about conducting private religious services in their homes.
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a joke… This makes the Indonesian Courts look REALLY BAD.