JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesian court on Tuesday handed down prison terms to seven men accused of supporting Islamic State amid a security crackdown on the militant group's suspected sympathisers in the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation.
Indonesia has been on high alert since a bomb and gun attack in the capital Jakarta last month claimed by Islamic State stamped the group's presence in the region for the first time. Eight people were killed, four of them the attackers themselves.
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