Ref: Setelah beberapa waktu akan dibebaskan dengan alas berkelakuan baik dan 
selama dipenjara tidak akan disiksa, seperti pengibar bendera Bintang Kejora 
dan Benang Raja.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/no-death-sentence-sought-for-bali-demolition-man-20120521-1z1bj.html

No death sentence sought for Bali 'demolition man' 
May 22, 2012 
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Regretful ... Umar Patek. Photo: AFP

JAKARTA: Indonesian prosecutors have demanded a life sentence for Umar Patek, 
an alleged terrorist accused of the mass murder of more than 200 people in the 
bombing of two nightclubs in Bali a decade ago.

Mr Patek is the last high-profile member of the group responsible for the 2002 
Bali bombings to face justice.

The 45-year-old, also known as the Demolition Man, is believed to have played a 
key role in building the explosive devices used in attacks on two nightclubs in 
Bali's popular Kuta area. The Sari Club was levelled when a bomb in a van 
parked outside detonated just after 11pm on October 12, 2002. About 20 seconds 
earlier, a suicide bomber had detonated a backpack loaded with explosives 
inside Paddy's Bar.

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The co-ordinated attacks, which were partly funded by al-Qaeda, killed 202 
people including 88 Australians and injured scores more.

But prosecutors on Monday stopped short of demanding Mr Patek face a firing 
squad, instead asking that he be sentenced to life in prison. ''He was 
co-operative during the trial and regretted his crime,'' prosecutor Bambang 
Suharijadi told the West Jakarta District Court.

Still, Mr Suharijadi said, the evidence against Mr Patek, who he described as a 
''terrorist and murderer'', was overwhelming and that the victims of the 2002 
attacks had waited many years for justice.

''The Bali bombing was a horrible incident. Not only is Indonesia waiting for a 
decision but also the international community,'' Mr Suharijadi said.

A panel of five judges is expected to hand down their verdict on June 21, 
including whether they agree with the sentence request.

Dressed in a white robe, Mr Patek told the court he was sorry for his 
involvement in what remains Indonesia's deadliest terrorist attack. ''I regret 
what I have done. I apologise to the families of victims who died, Indonesians 
and foreigners,'' he said.

Mr Patek is accused of mass premeditated murder over the Bali attacks as well 
as a series of deadly bombings of churches in Indonesia on Christmas Eve in 
2000. He has also been charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism, harbouring 
information about an act of terrorism, possession of explosives and a string of 
minor offences related to document fraud.

The prosecution maintains Mr Patek remained heavily involved in terrorism 
during the almost 10 years he spent on the run in the wake of the Bali bombings 
and, as recently as last year, had attempted to re-establish links with 
al-Qaeda. He was captured in January 2011 in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad, 
where US forces killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden less than four months 
later.

Several of those already convicted over the Bali bombings are serving life 
sentences, and three members of the Jemaah Islamiyah terror cell behind the 
plot, Mukhlas, Amrozi and Imam Samudra, were executed in 2008.


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