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Radical cleric Aman Abdurrahman was sentenced to death by an Indonesian court on Friday for ordering Islamic State-affiliated militants to carry out attacks including the January 2016 suicide bombing at a Starbucks in Jakarta.
Abdurrahman, who police and prosecutors say is a key ideologue for IS militants in the world’s largest Muslim nation, knelt and kissed the floor as the panel of five judges announced the sentence.

Several hundred paramilitary and counterterrorism police secured the Jakarta court where the trial took place.
Fears of attacks have been elevated in Indonesia after suicide bombings in the country’s second-largest city, Surabaya, last month that were carried out by families including their young children.
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Police say the leader of those bombers was part of the network of militants inspired by Abdurrahman.
During the trial, prosecutors said Abdurrahman’s instructions from prison, where he was serving a terrorism-related sentence, resulted in several attacks in Indonesia.

They included the Starbucks attack in the capital that killed four civilians and four militants, an attack on a bus terminal in Jakarta that killed three police officers and an attack on a church in Kalimantan that killed a two-year-old girl. Several other children suffered serious burns from the Kalimantan attack.
The court said there was no reason for leniency. It gave seven days for defence lawyers to consider lodging an appeal.

Abdurrahman has refused to recognise the authority of the court, part of his rejection of secular government in Indonesia and desire to replace it with sharia law.
According to prosecutors, Abdurrahman founded Jemaah Anshorut Daulah, a network of extremists that pledged allegiance to IS and was opposed to Indonesia’s secular government.
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Reflecting a dire lack of supervision of militants in Indonesia’s overcrowded prisons, Abdurrahman was able to spread radicalism and communicate with his supporters on the outside through visitors and video calls, they say.

The suicide bombings in Surabaya killed 26 people, including 13 attackers. Two families carried out the attacks, using children as young as seven.
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Abdurrahman was sentenced to prison in 2004 after a bomb he made prematurely exploded at a house in West Java, and again in 2011 for his role in helping set up an extremist training camp in a mountainous area of Aceh province.


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Indonesian court sentences cleric to death for ordering attacks

Islamic cleric Aman Abdurrahman is escorted by police upon arrival for his trial at South Jakarta District Court on June 22, 2018. Photo: AP

(FILES) This file photo taken on January 14, 2016 shows police securing the area in front of a damaged Starbucks coffee shop after a series of explosions hit central Jakarta. Indonesian cleric Aman Abdurrahman was sentenced to death on June 22, 2018 over his role in the 2016 Islamic State terror attack that saw a suicide bomber blow himself up at the Jakarta Starbucks cafe. / AFP PHOTO / Romeo GACAD

Islamic cleric Aman Abdurrahman leaves a court following his verdict in Jakarta, Indonesia, June 22, 2018. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside

Radical Islamic cleric Aman Abdurrahman sits at the court room for his sentencing hearing at South Jakarta District Court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, June 22, 2018. An Indonesian court has sentenced Abdurrahman to death for ordering Islamic State group-affiliated militants to carry out attacks including the January 2016 suicide bombing at a Starbucks in Jakarta. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

(FILES) This file photo taken on January 14, 2016 shows police (L) hiding behind vehicles during an exchange of gunfire with suspects hiding near a Starbucks coffee shop in Jakarta. Indonesian cleric Aman Abdurrahman was sentenced to death on June 22, 2018 over his role in the 2016 Islamic State terror attack that saw a suicide bomber blow himself up at the Jakarta Starbucks cafe. / AFP PHOTO / Bay ISMOYO

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Targets Aman Abdurrahman ordered militants to hit included a Starbucks in Jakarta and a church in Kalimantan


Targets Aman Abdurrahman ordered militants to hit included a Starbucks in Jakarta and a church in Kalimantan.


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Indonesian court sentences cleric to death for ordering attacks

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Targets Aman Abdurrahman ordered militants to hit included a Starbucks in Jakarta and a church in Kalimantan