(13 Sep 2005) SHOTLIST
13 September, 2005
1. Exterior courthouse
2. Bomb suspect Iwan Darmawan brought to the holding cell
3. Media outside cell
4. Darmawan talking to media
5. SOUNDBITE: (Bahasa Indonesia) Iwan Darmawan:
"I reject the death sentence. I reject a day or even an hour of sentence."
(Question: Why do you reject it?)
"Because I am innocent and I am not involved in this."
6. Judges sitting down
7. Head judge Roki Panjaitan opening trial
8. Darmawan sitting down in court
9. Defense lawyers
10. Tilt up from Darmawan to judges
11. Crowd
12. Various Darmawan
13. Prosecutors
14. Judge reading verdict
15. SOUNDBITE: (Bahasa Indonesia) Head Judge, Roki Panjaitan:
"The defendant is proven guilty of carrying out criminal acts, of being involved in terrorism and helping hide other terrorists."
16. Wide courtroom
17. SOUNDBITE: (Bahasa Indonesia) Head Judge, Roki Panjaitan:
"The court sentences the defendant with the death penalty."
18. Darmawan standing up and raising his hand in defiance
19. SOUNDBITE: (Bahasa Indonesia) Defense lawyer, Ahmad Michdan:
"This trial is completely unfair in its deliberation. We will definitely appeal this decision. What is apparent in this court is the propaganda of the fight against terror."
20. Police van carrying Darmawan leaving court
FILE - 9 September, 2004
21. Various aftermath of Australian embassy bombing
STORYLINE
An Indonesian militant was sentenced to death on Tuesday for helping plan and carry out last year's suicide bombing at the Australian embassy - the harshest penalty yet over the attack that killed 10 people.
Iwan Darmawan, 30, said he would appeal the verdict, which was the latest in a series of tough sentences against militants found guilty of attacks in the world's most populous Muslim nation.
According to Presiding Judge Roki Panjaitan, Darmawan surveyed the mission three times before the truck bombing, bought the explosives and helped persuade the suicide bomber to carry out the attack, which killed mostly Indonesian passers-by and guards.
Darmawan, also know as Rois, is the most senior of six people arrested in connection with the 9 September, 2004, attack in Jakarta.
Three have already been sentenced to prison terms of between three and a half years and seven years and prosecutors have asked for the death sentence for another man accused in the bombing.
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer on Tuesday welcomed the death sentence against Darmawan, despite Australia's often stated opposition to capital punishment.
He said the conviction underlined Indonesia's determination to prosecute those involved directly or indirectly in terrorism.
Darmawan always denied any involvement in terrorism and said his trial was part of attempts by Indonesia's secular government to silence Islamic clerics who have stepped up their campaign for the imposition of Shariah law.
Police have blamed the embassy attack on al-Qaida linked regional terror group Jemaah Islamiyah, which is also accused in 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 militants have been sentenced to death in the Bali blasts and more than 30 others received prison terms ranging from three years to life.
The attack on the Australian embassy left 10 Indonesians and the bomber dead.
The building was badly damaged in the blast, but none of the Australians working inside the heavily fortified embassy was killed.
The attack was seen as the first bombing to directly target Australians.
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