Indonesian sentenced to death for Jakarta blast

An Indonesian militant was sentenced to death on Tuesday for helping plan and carry out the 2004 suicide bombing at the Australian Embassy. Iwan Darmawan, also known as Rois, said he would appeal against the verdict.

He has always denied involvement in the September 9, 2004, attack in Jakarta that killed 10 people. "The defendant Iwan Darmawan alias Rois and his friends were seriously involved in the planning of the attack by buying explosives and assembling the bomb," Judge Rocki Panjaitan told the South Jakarta District Court.

Darmawan is the seniormost of six people arrested in connection with the attack, which wounded nearly 200. Three have already been sentenced to prison terms of between three and half and seven years.

• Bali blast 

Police have blamed the attack on the regional terror group Jemaah Islamiyah, which is also linked to the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists, and a 2003 blast at Jakarta's J W Marriott hotel that killed 12.

Three terrorists have been sentenced to death in the Bali blasts, and more than 30 others received prison terms ranging from three years to life.