JAKARTA, Feb. 3 (Xinhuanet) -- An Indonesian court Thursday rendered a two-year imprisonment on the wife of separatist South Maluku Republic (RMS) leader Alex Manuputty, who is now living in exile in the United States.

    The district court in the Maluku capital of Ambon found Alex's wife Holly Manuputty guilty of "taking an active part in rebellion."

    The sentence is lower than prosecution demand of four years in jail.

    But in a separate trial, the court acquitted her daughter Christin Manuputty of rebellion charges.

    Manuputty fled to the United States in November 2003 on a tourist visa despite a travel ban against him after the Supreme Court upheld the rebellion conviction and rendered him a four-year jail sentence.

    Established in 1950, the RMS was banned since the first ruling of first president Sukarno, who forced many of its followers to live in exile in Netherlands.

    The group reappeared following the intense sectarian conflicts between Muslims and Christians in the Maluku capital of Ambon between 1999 and 2001. Enditem