JAKARTA – Four Indonesian military personnel received prison sentences Wednesday from a military tribunal for their roles in an acid assault targeting a human rights advocate who opposed the military’s expanding influence.
The court handed down varying sentences: one officer received three years behind bars, another was given 2.5 years, a third officer got two years, and the fourth will serve 1.5 years, according to the presiding judge.
The military personnel were convicted of serious premeditated assault in the attack against Andrie Yunus, who serves as deputy coordinator with the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence, a human rights organization also called KontraS.
