Amir Abdillah, an Indonesian has been sentenced to eight years in prison for his involvement in last year’s deadly twin hotel bombings in Jakarta.
The south Jakarta district court found Abdillah guilty of helping a section of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) group in planning the suicide bombings that killed seven people and wounded more than 50.
Amir is said to be a driver for Noordin Mohd Top, the Malaysian-born bomb maker believed to have masterminded the hotel attacks.
It is believed that he had driven Noordin to meetings with terrorists, booked a room in West Java where the hotel attacks were planned and transported explosive materials to a house where a truck bomb was assembled for an attack on Yudhoyono’s presidential convoy.
Amir, 35, is the third person to be sentenced for the July 17, 2009, bomb attacks at the Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott hotels.
The same court had previously jailed Saefudin Zuhri, an in-law of Noordin, and Aris Susanto, who was sentenced to eight years for assisting and harbouring Noordin and two other suspects.
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