Jakarta (ANTRA News) - A woman named Putri Munawaroh gets three years in jail for hiding top terrorist leader, Noordin M Top, and two of his followers in her house.

"We sentenced her to three years in jail," chief judge of the South Jakarta district court Ida Bagus Dwiyantara said here on Thursday.

She said the defendant had violated law no 15/2003, article 55, para 1, on eradication of terrorism.

However, the verdict was actually lighter than that demanded by the prosecutor which had demanded eight years in jail, considering that the woman had an eight-month old baby, and that the idea to hide the terrorists came from her husband, not from herself.

In April 2009, Putri and her husband rented a house in Solo district, Central Java. The family lived there while also accepting Noordin M Top and two of his followers, Bagus Budi Pranoto alias Urwah and Ario Sudarso alias Aji as guests. The terrorist fugitives managed to hide there for two months.

Initially, Putri did not know that the three people staying in her house was terrorists until her husband decided to tell her the truth.

In September 17, 2009, the Anti-Terror police raided Putri`s house and shot death her husband and Noordin M Top. Putri herself got a shot on her leg.

Noordin M Top and Azhari Husin, both Malaysian nationals, were believed to have masterminded the Marriott Hotel bombing in Jakarta on August 5, 2003 which killed 12 people, and injured 147 others.

Azhari was killed in a police raid in East Java in November 2005 but Noording M Top who was with him was able to escape.

Dr Azhari and his associate Noordin Mohammad Top, a terror coordinator of the Al-Qaeda-linked Southeast Asian branch of the Jemaah Islamiyah militant network, are also believed to have masterminded a series of major terrorist attacks in Indonesia, including the Bali bombings in 2002, a deadly blast at the Australian Embassy in Jakarta in 2004, and bombings in Bali in October 2005 that killed more than 220 people. (*)

Editor: Aditia Maruli
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