The court ruled that the soldiers acted on their own initiative out of revenge, but critics called the verdict ‘a blatant whitewash’.
Four Indonesian soldiers have been found guilty of an acid attack that left an activist blind in one eye. They were sentenced on Wednesday to up to three years in prison by a military court, with a judge calling their actions “arrogant”. The four members of the military’s Strategic Intelligence Agency (BAIS) were found guilty of premeditated assault for the attack in March that left Andrie Yunus, 27, blind in one eye.