Jakarta – A Muslim militant was jailed for 20 years by an Indonesian court on Monday for a 2000 bomb attack on the Philippine ambassador's residence which killed two people and badly wounded the Manila envoy.

The Central Jakarta District Court also found Abdul Jabar guilty of involvement in a series of Christmas 2000 church bombings. "The defendant is found legally and convincingly guilty of the bombing and the court sentences him to 20 years in jail," presiding judge Pramodana K. Kusumah said in the verdict.

The ambassador suffered severe injuries in the car bomb blast. Apart from the two dead, a total of 18 were wounded.

Indonesian police have said they believe the bombing was funded by Hambali, the top al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah (JI) militant captured in Thailand in August and now in US custody. JI is also blamed for last year's Bali bombings which killed 202 people.

A number of key Bali bombers, at least one of whom has already been sentenced to death for those blasts, have also been named as suspects in the embassy bombing.

Police said earlier this year that much of their information on the Jakarta attack came from self-confessed JI member Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi, who escaped a Manila prison in July but was shot dead by Philippine security forces on Sunday, according to authorities there.