Indonesian prosecutors are seeking jail terms of ten and six years for two Islamic militants accused of aiding fugitive terror suspect Noordin Mohammad Top.

Prosecutors at South Jakarta district court said Purnama Putra, 24, was guilty of assisting Noordin, who is wanted for bloody bombing attacks which have claimed at least 245 lives since 2002. They called for a 10-year jail term.

The indictment charged Putra with having met Noordin in the East Java city of Surabaya in May 2004 and at his request collecting guns, ammunition, explosives, detonators and wiring.

The goods were passed on through Ahmad Rofik Ridho to Noordin in September that year. Prosecutors at a separate court last week sought a 10-year jail sentence for Ridho.

Noordin and his Malaysian compatriot Azahari Husin, who was killed in a police raid in November, were key members of the Al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) Islamic extremist network.

Failure to notify

In a second trial at the same court, prosecutors sought a six-year term for Johnny Ahmad Fauzani, 32, who was accused of harbouring Noordin and three other militants for two weeks in February 2005.

The prosecutors said that although Fauzani was aware that Noordin was a wanted terrorist, he had failed to notify the authorities.

Both hearings will resume in one week.

The pair are among 270 alleged Islamic militants detained by Indonesian police since the 2002 Bali bombings staged by JI which killed 202 people.