Judges found one of the men, Arif Syaifudin, guilty of making 8 money transfers between 2005-2006 to a training camp in the southern Philippines run by Jemaah Islamiah (JI).

Each transfer amounted to between 4 million rupiah (US$432.8) to 5 million rupiah, chief judge Haswandi said. JI has been blamed for the 2002 Bali bombings in which more than 200 people were killed, as well as several other attacks in Indonesia. In a separate trial, a panel of three judges convicted Aris Widodo of aiding those involved in “terrorism” by sending four coded emails to fellow militants in the southern Philippines in 2006.

Judges said both convicts had acted under the orders of Abu Dujana, JI’s alleged military chief.

He was jailed for 15 years last week for weapons possession and harboring fugitives but was not charged with any specific attacks.

Although several key strategists and bomb experts in JI have been captured or killed, some analysts say it and its splinter groups still have the capacity to launch attacks.

Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim country. While the vast majority of Muslims are moderate, the country has seen the emergence of an increasingly vocal militant minority.

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