Indonesia jails ISIS-linked couple who tried to assassinate minister, SE Asia

JAKARTA (AFP) – An Indonesian couple with links to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group who tried to assassinate the country’s chief security minister were jailed Thursday (June 25). A Jakarta court handed a 12-year sentence to Syahrial Alamsyah, 51, and nine years to his wife Fitria Diana, 21, after convicting them on terrorism charges for trying to kill then security minister Wiranto in October last year. The sentences were below prosecutors’ demands for a 16-year and 12-year term, respectively. But the court rejected the couple’s defence that they were solely motivated by anti-government sentiment, ruling that…