The trial has begun of a man who is alleged¹ to have assisted in the twin suicide hotel bomb attacks in Jakarta on 17 July 2009.

庭审由对一名男子的审理开始，该男子涉嫌协助发动2009年7月17日发生的两起宾馆炸弹袭击。

The hotels are in Jakarta's central business district

Amir Abdillah is charged under the anti-terror laws of concealing²（隐藏，掩饰） information and harbouring terrorists.

Prosecutors³ said he was the driver for alleged terrorist Noordin Top, who was shot by police in a September raid on a central Java village.

The hotel bombings ended a four-year lull⁴（暂停，间歇） in terrorism in Indonesia.

The July attacks at the JW Marriott and Ritz Carlton hotels killed seven people and injured more than 50.

Mr Abdillah - who appeared at in South Jakarta District Court on Wednesday - was arrested a month after the attacks as the first suspect in the case.

If convicted（定罪） , he could be sentenced to death.

He is believed to have given information that led to the arrests of several other suspected terrorists, and two deadly raids in Central Java that killed four suspects.

The BBC's Karishma Vaswani says he is also believed to be the man who booked the room, number 1808, in the JW Marriott where the bombs went off.

Police have killed six and arrested more than a dozen suspects including a Saudi citizen, who is accused of helping⁵ finance the bombings.

Malaysian-born Noordin Top was blamed for a string of terrorist attacks in Indonesia that killed more than 250 people.

Indonesia suffered a number of bomb attacks - mainly linked to the militant⁶ group Jemaah Islamiah - in the first years of the century.

The country of 240 million people has been praised in recent years for maintaining a pluralist（兼职者，多元论者） democracy, while punishing Islamists behind a series of bombings.

Attacks on two nightclubs in Bali in October 2002 killed 202 people, most of them Australian.

The Marriott Hotel was the target of a bomb attack in August 2003 in which 13 people were killed.

Since then, a combination of new laws, anti-terror training, international co-operation and reintegration（重新整合） measures have kept Indonesia peaceful, analysts⁷ have said.