Ali Fauzi, brother of Bali bomber Ali Imron, questions the leniency shown to Australian members of the Bali Nine while his brother remains incarcerated. He hopes to leverage the new Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto's clemency towards foreigners to secure Ali Imron's release.
The brother of Bali bomber Ali Imron has questioned why the remaining Australian members of the Bali Nine have been set free when his allegedly deradicalised family member is still serving a life sentence. Ali Fauzi hopes to piggyback off the charity shown to foreigners by new Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto and secure his brother’s release from jail in the new year. Ali Imron waving to journalists after his sentencing in 2003.
He was spared the death penalty because of his remorse and co-operation with authorities.Imron helped build the bombs and then drove a van packed with explosives that was detonated outside the Sari Club in Kuta. The October 2002 attack on the club and nearby Paddy’s Bar killed 202 people, including 88 Australians. “As an Indonesian, I am jealous,” Fauzi said. “Why are drug offenders given leniency? They have made no contribution whatsoever to drug prevention. Meanwhile, since being arrested Ali Imron has been carrying out deradicalisation efforts, cooperating with the police and cooperating with the government.” Muslim-majority Indonesia takes drug crimes extremely seriously – more so than Australia – because of the people they kill and the lives they ruin.But in a sharp turn from former president Joko Widodo, Prabowo this week allowed the five remaining prisoners of the Bali Nine to be freed. The Australian Bali Nine ringleaders, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, were executed by Indonesia in 2015. Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen died in from stomach cancer. While Lawrence had her sentence commuted for good behaviour and was deported to Australia in 2018.“In the era of Mr Prabowo, I will try again to file a pardon for Ali Imron. Hopefully, the kind Mr Prabowo can grant it.”Their other brothers, Bali bombers Amrozi and Mukhlas, were executed in 2008 alongside Imam Samudra. Imron was spared a death sentence in 2003 because of his remorse and co-operation with authorities. He has since asked for forgiveness and even met with victims or their familie
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