SOUTH JAKARTA, Indonesia — Three Islamic extremists were sentenced Dec. 3 to 19, 14 and 10 years in prison respectively for beheading three Christian teenage girls and shooting two others nonfatally in 2005. A South Jakarta district court sentenced Rahman Kalahe to 19 years in prison, Agus Nur Muhammad to 14 years and Yudi Heryanto to 10 years after finding them guilty of beheading Theresia Morangke and Yarni Sambue, both 15, and 19-year-old Alfita Poliwo as the girls walked to school in Poso district in Sulawesi Oct. 29, 2005. Kalahe was also found guilty of involvement in a bombing Dec. 31, 2005, on a market in Palu that killed at least eight people. Abdul Muis was also convicted for this and received a 19-year sentence. The two were also convicted of murdering Irianto Kongkoli, a Christian pastor, and two high school students in 2006.
The court also found Syaiful Anam and Amril Niode guilty of bombing a marketplace in the Christian-inhabited town of Tentena, in Poso district, in May 2005, with Anam receiving a prison sentence of 18 years and Niode one of 15 years.
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