JAKARTA: An Indonesian militant was jailed for six years Monday over a series of failed plots hatched under the guidance of an Indonesian jihadist fighting with the Islamic State group in Syria.

Arif Hidayatullah plotted to assassinate Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, an ethnic Chinese Christian, and bomb a Jewish community center and a mosque used by members of the Muslim Shia minority, a court heard.

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