Bali – Five Indonesian men were jailed on Wednesday for terms running from three to six years for helping to hide one of the top suspects for last year's Bali nightclub bombings that killed 202 people.

Judges at the Denpasar district court found the five guilty in separate trials of helping self-confessed bomber Ali Imron and accomplice Mubarok hide from a police hunt on a remote isle off the eastern coast of Borneo after the October 12, 2002 attacks on bars frequented by Western tourists.

Sofyan Hadi, a former student of Imron who was a Muslim teacher, received the harshest sentence – six years.

"The defendant Sofyan Hadi is legally and convincingly guilty of helping hide a perpetrator of a terror crime," presiding judge Arif Supratman said.

In other trials, judges sentenced Mujarod and Sirajul Munir to five years each, while Imam Susanto got four. Syamsul Arifin, found only to have known the suspects' whereabouts, was jailed for three years for hiding key information from police. The court has now handed down 25 verdicts over the Bali bombings, including three death sentences to Muslim militants who plotted the attacks.

Ali Imron was sentenced to life in jail after he expressed remorse for his role in the atrocity, which Jakarta blames on Jemaah Islamiah, a Southeast Asian militant network.

Mubarok, accused of holding the money used for the bombings in his account, faces judgment on Thursday. Prosecutors have demanded a life sentence.