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Old 10-24-2006, 01:20 PM   #116 (permalink)
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Here is a Wash Post article:
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Two Islamic militants jailed for the Bali bombings that killed 202 people were freed Tuesday, and nine others had their sentences reduced to mark the end of the Islamic fasting month.

Indonesia traditionally cuts prison terms for some inmates on national holidays, and the justice ministry said more than 43,000 convicts benefited this time.

But the decision to include convicted terrorists was likely to anger countries that lost citizens in the Oct. 12, 2002, suicide attacks on two crowded nightclubs.

"After what I've survived, to see these people get rewarded ... it's something we Westerners just don't understand," said Australian Peter Hughes, who suffered burns to 54 percent of his body.

"I hate to think what the families of the victims who died are going through."

Mujarod bin Salim and Sirojul Munir, who were convicted of hiding two of the bomb plotters, had up to 45 days shaved from their five-year sentences.

Bin Salim walked free from the main prison on Bali island on Tuesday afternoon, said Ilham Jaya, the prison warden, and Munir left the jail in East Kalimantan's capital of Balikpapan several hours earlier

"I'm happy that I'll be able to spend time with my family again," said Munir, adding he had nothing to do with the attacks.

Nine other militants convicted of relatively minor roles in the bombings also had 45 days cut from their sentences.

Indonesia has arrested hundreds of al-Qaida-linked militants in recent years and jailed 33 people in the 2002 bombings, the first in a series of attacks in Indonesia blamed on the Jemaah Islamiyah terror network.

The government says three militants on death row for the Bali attacks and three others sentenced to life are not eligible for the prison term reductions.

Munir admitted to letting Mubarok, an old classmate who is now serving life, stay in his home for several days in November 2002. He said he had no idea his friend was fleeing justice.

"As soon as I learned through the newspapers that he was involved in the Bali bombings, I asked him to leave and gave him a little money for transportation," Munir told The Associated Press by telephone.

"My mistake was not telling police he had been at my house."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...102400206.html
I dont deny that there are still serious problems in Indonesia with muslim extremists, but it seems you want to focus more on those problems that the serious efforts made by the Indonesian government to crackdown on Jemaah Islamiyah -- the more than 200 suspected JI-linked militants captured or killed and the country's 2003 anti-terrorism legislation that allows for detention without trial.

Progress is being made in Indonesia, particularly under the new government, but obviously not as quicky as anyone would hope and continued criticism likes yours is appropriate as long as you dont generalize about the vast majority of over 1 billion muslims there that are not perpetrating or supporting violence or terrorism.
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