Press Release

No. 403/PHM/VIII/03

Indonesian Court Sentences Maximum Penalty
for the Terrorist in the Bali Bombing

In its judgement of 7 August 2003, the District Court in Denpasar, Bali handed down the maximum sentence of death penalty to Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, one of the prime suspects in the terrorist Bali bombings on October 12, 2002.

The Presiding Judge I Made Karna stated that Amrozi was found guilty in a convincing manner carrying out an act of pre-meditated terrorism. In the 300-page judgement read in turns among the five-judge panel, the presiding judge also gave Amrozi seven days to respond to the judges’ verdict, whether he would accept it or appeal to a higher court.

In the tragic Bali bombings at the Sari Club discotheque and Paddy’s Pub in Kuta district, 202 people mostly foreign nationals were killed and more than 250 were injured.

The Indonesian police has so far arrested a total of 34 suspects in this bombing case. Amrozi is one of three brothers arrested for their alleged roles in the Bali bombing, along with 12 other key suspects and 18 others who may have supported the plotters. At present, some of other suspects are being tried.

New York, 7 August 2003