CILACAP: Hundreds of radical supporters of a jailed Indonesian cleric chanted “God is great!” outside court as the firebrand preacher tried to overturn his conviction for funding a militant group.
Just 12 days after a deadly gun and suicide bomb attack in Jakarta, security was intensified as Abu Bakar Bashir returned to the Central Java court to challenge his 15-year sentence for helping fund a paramilitary group in Indonesia’s far west.
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