An Indonesian court has sentenced terrorist Suryadi Mas'ud to 10 years' jail for procuring firearms in the Philippines and for his involvement in funding terrorism.
A three-judge panel also ordered the 45-year-old, alias Montilia Perez, to pay a 50 million rupiah (S$4,900) fine, or serve six months' jail in default.
"The defendant bought firearms in the Philippines for terror acts in Indonesia. What he did created public fear," presiding judge Machri Hendra said yesterday.
"The defendant had been convicted previously and throughout the trial he never showed remorse," he added.
The 10-year jail sentence was what prosecutors had sought.
In September 2015, Suryadi travelled to General Santos in the southern Philippines to procure arms, needed for several planned attacks back home.
To avert suspicion, his second wife Neneng Rita Anyar travelled with him.
Suryadi looked up local militants named Marod and Dato, his old friends from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
From 1996 to 2000, he fought alongside MILF rebels against the Philippine military.
CREATING FEAR
The defendant purchased firearms in the Philippines for terror acts in Indonesia. What the defendant did has created public fear. The defendant had been convicted previously and throughout the trial he never showed remorse.
PRESIDING JUDGE MACHRI HENDRA, on Suryadi Mas'ud, who had previously been jailed for his involvement in bombing a McDonald's outlet in 2002 and in a paramilitary training camp in 2010.
Marod agreed to help Suryadi and also let him stay at his house.
He would bring back firearms which were on sale and Suryadi would check the condition of each one.
Suryadi sent photos of the guns to Iwan Darmawan Muntho, alias Rois, an Australian-embassy bomber on death row in the Nusakambangan island prison.
If Rois gave the go-ahead, Suryadi would test the guns in the backyard of Marod's house.
Rois, who was later placed in an isolation cell, had arranged and funded Suryadi's mission.
Suryadi paid a total of US$30,000 (S$39,000) via Western Union, using borrowed ID cards, to purchase 16 M-16 rifles, one M-14, and five handguns.
After the verdict was read out yesterday, Suryadi, who said he did not plan to appeal, urged people to repent, saying "we are nearing the apocalypse".
The Indonesian government's surveillance unit is going after those like Suryadi who had fought in the southern Philippines because of their possible link to the country's firearms supply.
Suryadi had already spent several years in prison for his role in the 2002 bombing of a McDonald's outlet in Makassar, south Sulawesi, and his involvement in a paramilitary training camp in Aceh in 2010.
