JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian court has sentenced radical cleric Aman Abdurrahman to death for ordering Islamic State group-affiliated militants to carry out attacks including the January 2016 suicide bombing at a Starbucks in Jakarta.
Several hundred police secured the Jakarta court where Abdurrahman's verdict was announced Friday. Prosecutors had demanded the death penalty.
Police and prosecutors say Abdurrahman is the key ideologue for IS militants in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation.
Fears of attacks have been elevated in Indonesia after suicide bombings in the country's second-largest city, Surabaya, last month that were carried out by families including their young children.
Police say the leader of those bombers was part of the network of militants inspired by Abdurrahman.
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