Indonesia jails father-in-law of terror mastermind

Latif was arrested five months after suicide bomb attacks on the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta in July last year that killed seven people.

The hotel blasts were believed to be Top’s last attacks in a career that allegedly included the 2004 bombing of the Australian embassy in Jakarta and attacks on tourist spots in Bali in 2005.

”The defendant is legally and convincingly proven guilty of hiding and providing assistance to terror mastermind Noordin Mohammed Top,” chief judge Didik Setyo Handoko told the South Jakarta district court.

The sentence was lighter than the six years sought by prosecutors because he had cooperated with police and shown regret,the court heard.

”The defendant had put security forces in difficulties in eradicating terrorism in Indonesia,” the judge added.

Noordin visited Latif’s house in Cilacap,Central Java,on several occasions and married his daughter,Arina Rahmah,in 2006. The couple had two children.