Indonesian soldiers given 3-year maximum jail terms for brazen acid attack | The World | ABC NEWS

Four military intelligence officers have been sentenced to up to three years in jail, after they threw sulphuric acid over a human rights activist in a brazen attack in Central Jakarta.

Warning: This story contains details of an assault.

CCTV captured the assault on Andrie Yunus, 27, with two of the officers throwing acid on him while he was riding his motorcycle home late at night in March.

Andrie, who has been a vocal critic of the military's growing influence in Indonesia, is still recovering in hospital after receiving second- and third-degree burns across a quarter of his body.

Four officers — Second Sergeant Edi Sudarko, First Lieutenant Budhi Hariyanto Widhi Cahyono, Captain Nandala Dwi Prasetya and First Lieutenant Sami Lakka — were found guilty of premeditated assault resulting in serious injury.

The military court judges have ordered that key evidence be destroyed.

Indonesia Correspondent Tim Swanston reports.

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