Sarinah Attack – Terror Convict, Freed Early, Faces Charges!

In December 2010, Aman was sentenced to nine years in prison for funding a militant training camp in Aceh, a case which involved dozens of militants.

http://jakartaglobe.id/news/recidivist-convict-named-suspect-2016-sarinah-attack/

OKAY?

Got your junior high arithmetical skills assembled?

Read on!

In February 2005, he was sentenced to seven years in prison following explosions at his home in Depok, West Java. He was reportedly assembling bombs.

NINE PLUS SEVEN= WHAT?

I make it sixteen, so if he was jailed in 2005, he should have got out…FOUR YEARS from now?  Even if we skip the first 2005 sentence, if he got nine years in 2010, he ought still to be sitting in a cell somewhere, till 2019.

Did I get my sums right?

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Now we read of the third case against Aman Abdurrahman, who was released last Thursday after receiving remission to his nine-year jail term at a prison on Nusakambangan Island in Central Java…

National Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Martinus Sitompul told the media this week that “he stands accused of inciting the Thamrin attack and of being a conduit for funding it.”

We must now await the trial and the next sentence, if he’s found guilty.

But there are surely questions to be asked about why this sectarian fanatic was given remission.  Did he do anything to earn it? Did he give police useful info? Did he even express remorse, or repentance?

Maybe?

No, none of the above.

According to an earlier report in the JG, this ‘Islamist cleric’  ( yeah, ‘cleric!’) received a sentence remission on the occasion of the 72nd anniversary of Indonesia’s independence. 

So to celebrate freedom, you unleash a bitter foe of every freedom people value?

C’mon!

This example does make me think, though, that if the death penalty…

….exalted by President Jokowi for drugs-related offences, were imposed for all terror-related crimes, this kind of question would not need to be asked.