Seven face Jakarta court over ISIS support
AAP
February 9, 2016, 3:22 pm
Seven Indonesian men accused of supporting Islamic State in Syria have arrived in a Jakarta court to be sentenced.
Dressed in prison orange, the men were led through the waiting media pack and taken into the cells at West Jakarta District Court on Tuesday morning to await sentencing for conspiring to commit an act of terrorism - an offence that carries a maximum penalty of 15 years.
One of the men Tuah Febriwansyah, also known as Fachry, is also accused of creating a radical website where he allegedly encouraged people to join IS.
Meanwhile two other men face the additional charge of funding terrorism, which also carries a maximum 15-year sentence.
Prosecutors allege Helmi Muhamad Alemudi organised funds to send 39 Indonesians to fight in Syria, raising more than Rp 257 million ($A26,683).
His co-accused, drug convict Koswara alias Abu Ahmad, is also alleged to have helped organise people's passage to Syria.
Reports have linked him to the radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, who is notorious in Australia as the spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiah, the group behind the 2002 Bali bombings.
It is alleged Koswara visited Bashir on the island prison Nusakambangan in August 2014, just months before he began helping people get to Syria.
