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They are now. That was evident last week when Indonesian judges sentenced Abubakar Ba'asyir, a conservative cleric who started Pondok Ngruki, an Islamist boarding school in Solo, and, according to several foreign governments, allegedly co-founded Jemaah Islamiah in the early '90s, to four years in prison for treason and immigration violations. But he was acquitted of charges that he ran the radical group and planned a series of Indonesian bombings (He has consistently denied involvement in terrorist activities, and is suing TIME for a 2002 article that links him to terrorism.) Only slowly are the citizens of Solo...
...CONVICTED. Abubakar Ba'asyir, 65, for being an accomplice in crimes against the security of Indonesia, forgery and violating immigration laws; in Jakarta. A five-judge panel sentenced Abubakar to four years in jail but acquitted him of other charges...
...played a central role in the spread of terrorism throughout Southeast Asia. Born into a family of farmers and Islamic scholars in Sukamanah, West Java, Hambali headed off to join the mujahedin in Afghanistan in the mid-1980s. He later moved to Malaysia, where he teamed up with Abubakar Ba'asyir, a fundamentalist Indonesian cleric. In the mid-1990s, Hambali began raising money and recruiting militants to join some jihadist groups. Meanwhile, Hambali established ties to bin Laden, serving on al-Qaeda's consultative council and lending financial and logistical help to the group's plots, including a 1995 plan...
...jitters over fresh terrorist plots, come at a particularly tense time for Indonesia. Last week, Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, the first man arrested in connection with the Bali bombings, was sentenced to death by a court in the island's capital, Denpasar. Meanwhile, a verdict is imminent for Abubakar Ba'asyir, the alleged spiritual head of JI, who is charged with treason and bombings unrelated to Bali. A conviction for the revered cleric?who denies that JI exists, although he did concede late in his trial that he believed attacks on Christian churches were permissible if the churches were proven enemies...
...Abubakar Ba'asyir Accused of being head of JI, on trial in Jakarta for treason and other charges not related to Bali Trial Status: Continuing Most interesting moment: July 15, when the 63-year-old cleric lectured the judges that all Muslims are obliged by their religion to fight "infidels" who oppress Islam...