Adhe Bakti, Jakarta – A district court on Monday handed out sentences of between seven and nine years in prison for six men involved in an outlawed armed group that conducted military training in Aceh.

The six men were divided into three separate trials heard by the same panel of judges at the West Jakarta District Court.

The discovery of the Aceh training camp by police in February raised fresh concerns that terrorist cells in Indonesia had regrouped under the auspices of, or emulating, Al-Qaeda. Radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir is currently facing charges of being the mastermind of the Aceh camp.

Rohman, who also uses the names Aman Abdurrahman and Abu Sulaiman, was sentenced to nine years, three years less than what prosecutors had recommended.

"The defendant was found guilty of providing monetary assistance in the form of Rp 20 million [$2,220] and $100 to Dulmatin for military training in Aceh," Judge Mutarto said.

Dulmatin, believed to be one of the masterminds of the 2002 Bali bombings, was suspected of organizing the training in Aceh and providing firearms for the group. He was shot dead in a police raid in Tangerang in March.

"The defendant [Rohman] had also given a sermon and seen off two participants in the military training, Agus Kasianto and Laode Afif," the judge added.

At a separate trial, the same judge sentenced three men to eight years in prison and another to seven years.

Mutarto said that defendants Adi Munadi, Deni Suhendra and Ade Miroz were each given eight year sentences for illegally using firearms during the training in Aceh.

Abu Rimba, who was said to have acted as a guide for the group, was given seven years. Prosecutors had recommended 12 years each for the first three and 10 years for Abu Rimba. All the defendants and prosecutors demanded time to decide whether to appeal.

At the third trial, Ismarwan, also known as Ismail, was given an eight year prison sentence, four years less than what prosecutors had sought, for taking part in acts of terrorism.

The court was told that the defendant had assisted two other men, Tengku Muktar and Andri Marlan, in terrorist activities.

He had led them to the location of their attacks, which included a grenade attack on the Unicef of fice in Banda Aceh, and shooting at the house of two American nationals in the same city. Muktar and Andri were tried separately.

The six defendants are part of a group of 51 terror suspects linked to the Aceh group currently on trial. They have been divided into 32 separate trials.

Officials have dubbed the group conducting armed paramilitary training as "Al-Qaeda in Aceh" and said they were plotting to kill Westerners, including United States aid workers, businessmen and tourists.

The National Police on Tuesday accused Bashir of being the figurehead of the budding Al-Qaeda-style terrorist network.