Jakarta: Indonesian prosecutors on Friday demanded the death penalty for radical Islamic cleric Aman Abdurrahman following a wave of attacks by Islamic State group-inspired militants known as JAD.

The cleric, also known as Oman Rochman, who the United States designated a terrorist, is considered JAD's de facto leader. JAD or JAT, Jemaah Anshorut Tauhid, is a splinter cell of the Jemaah Islamiyah.

Police have deployed more than 100 officers from elite counter-terrorism and paramilitary units toguard his trial at the South Jakarta District Court on Friday along with numerous plainclothes police.

Abdurrahman is accused of being the key ideologue for Islamic State militants in Indonesia and ordering attacks including a suicide bombing in Jakarta that killed four civilians and four attackers in accused of ordering deadly attack in 2016.