Jakarta – Five alleged members of the al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah group have been jailed on terror charges by an Indonesian court, the presiding judge who sentenced them said on Tuesday.

I Nyoman Sumanada, head of the Palu district court, said the five were sentenced on Monday to terms ranging from three to six years.

"Two were found guilty of hiding explosives for terrorism, one was found guilty of hiding information relating to terrorism, one was found guilty of giving money for terrorism and another was found guilty of hiding a terrorism suspect," Sumanada told Reuters by telephone from the eastern city of Palu, some 1,500 km (900 miles) north east of Jakarta.

Asked whether they were suspected members of the Jemaah Islamiah, Sumanada said: "Yes, that's right." Jemaah Islamiah, a Southeast Asian offshoot of al Qaeda, has been blamed for the Bali blasts in October 2002 which killed 202 people and a suicide bomb attack on the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta last August which killed 12.

The defendants' name were listed as Firmansyah, Fauzan Arif, A'ang Hasanuddin, Fadjrin and Nizam, Sunanada said. They were detained last year in Central Sulawesi province.