An Indonesian court has jailed an Islamic militant for life for helping to make one of the bombs which ripped through two Bali nightclubs and killed 202 people.
"We hereby sentence the defendant, Zaenal Abidin alias Sarjiyo, alias Zaini ... to life in prison," Judge Ari Supraptman announced at a court in the resort island.
Sarjiyo helped make the bomb which devastated the crowded Sari Club on October 12, 2002 and killed mainly Western tourists.
He is the third man to be jailed for life for the attack, which was staged by the al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terror group to avenge injustice to Muslims worldwide.
Three people have been sentenced to death and a number of others have received long prison terms.
"I wish to appeal," Sarjiyo declared loudly, raising his arm, after the judges banged the gavel.
The judges, who took turns reading the verdict, said Sarjiyo helped plan the attack and took part in mixing chemicals for the Sari Club bomb. He also helped pack explosive powder into filing cabinets which were installed in the back of a van.
The first blast was a suicide bombing inside Paddy's Pub. The van blast seconds later at the Sari Club in the Kuta tourist strip claimed the most lives.
Sarjiyo had told his trial the attack was intended to show that Indonesia can resist what he called a foreign conspiracy to break up the country.
"The objective of our action is to show foreigners that there is resistance in Indonesia. We resist to prevent Indonesia from breaking up," he said last month.
He cited Christian-Muslim fighting in Poso on Sulawesi island and in the Maluku islands and the independence of mainly Christian East Timor as proof of a foreign plot to dismember the country.
Sarjiyo also told his trial last month he was in the southern Philippines between 1994 and 1996 to "help Moro jihad fighters".
There have been several reports that JI fighters have trained and are still training at camps of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. The Philippine group denies cooperating with JI.
At another trial, prosecutors recommended that judges sentence Achmad Roichan alias Sa'ad to 20 years in jail for helping to hide key bomber Mukhlas while he was on the run.
Mukhlas, one of those sentenced to death, was hidden in a small home factory owned by Roichan in the city of Solo. Roichan will present his defence plea when his trial resumes on February 12.
Witnesses have said the Sari Club bomb was built under the supervision of two men who are still on the run – a Malaysian called Azahari Husin and an Indonesian called Dulmatin.
Police have arrested some 35 people for the Bali blasts and most have been put on trial and sentenced.
Apart from the Bali attacks, JI is blamed for the Marriott hotel blast in Jakarta in August last year that killed 12 people and a string of other attacks. It aims to create an Islamic theocracy across much of Southeast Asia.