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GOVT AWAITING US CONFIRMATION ON HAMBALI'S FATE
Jakarta, Jan 23 (ANTARA) - The government is waiting for the US confirmation on the fate of terror suspect Hambali following President Barack Obama's orders to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention center within a year, a spokesman said.
"We still adopt a wait-and-see approach. We have established contact with the US government and are waiting for the US government's internal coordination to decide on the status of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay," spokesman for the Foreign Ministry Teuku Faizasyah said here on Friday.
Only after receiving the US confirmation would the Indonesian government make consular approaches, he said.
"If any of our citizens (is among the Guantanamo detainees), it will be our obligation to ensure that his/her rights will be fulfilled," he said.
It was likely the US would classify detainees at Guantanamo Bay into those to be extradited to their country of origin and those to be tried in the US, he said.
Hambali, also known as Riduan Isamuddin, is believed to be the operations chief of the Jamaah Islamiah (JI) and blamed for the 2002 Bali bombing which killed 202 people and the 2003 attack on the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, which killed 12.
He is wanted in several countries, including Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Singapore.
When Hambali was first imprisoned in 2006, the BBC reported that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had dubbed him the 'Osama Bin Laden' of South East Asia.
He was arrested in Central Thailand in August 2003 and interrogated by the CIA in an undisclosed country for three years.
"We still adopt a wait-and-see approach. We have established contact with the US government and are waiting for the US government's internal coordination to decide on the status of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay," spokesman for the Foreign Ministry Teuku Faizasyah said here on Friday.
Only after receiving the US confirmation would the Indonesian government make consular approaches, he said.
"If any of our citizens (is among the Guantanamo detainees), it will be our obligation to ensure that his/her rights will be fulfilled," he said.
It was likely the US would classify detainees at Guantanamo Bay into those to be extradited to their country of origin and those to be tried in the US, he said.
Hambali, also known as Riduan Isamuddin, is believed to be the operations chief of the Jamaah Islamiah (JI) and blamed for the 2002 Bali bombing which killed 202 people and the 2003 attack on the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, which killed 12.
He is wanted in several countries, including Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Singapore.
When Hambali was first imprisoned in 2006, the BBC reported that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had dubbed him the 'Osama Bin Laden' of South East Asia.
He was arrested in Central Thailand in August 2003 and interrogated by the CIA in an undisclosed country for three years.
