David Goltar Wicaksono was found guilty Monday by the Denpasar District Court of killing Rika Sano and plundering her property from a hotel in Kuta region on Sept. 25, 2009.
The body of the 33-year-old Sano was found half-naked in the bushes near a beach resort.
The court was told that Wicakson posed as a policeman in order to lure Sano from the hotel. He beat her on the head with a log and sexually abused her as she was dying.
Wicaksono is also charged by the same court with trying to rape Sano’s friend, Mayumi Someya, who escaped unharmed.