(30 Jul 2004) SHOTLIST

July 30, 2004
1. Exterior of mosque
2. Various of people praying
3. God symbol
4. Militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir walking out of mosque
5. SOUNDBITE (Bahasa Indonesia) Abu Bakar Bashir, jailed militant cleric:
"I should be freed because that (Bali bombing) was the basis of my arrest. However, in reality, that is not the case. Therefore, it is clear that America is the problem."
6. Cameraman
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abu Bakar Bashir, jailed militant cleric:
(++Rough translation++)
"America is evil. America is the mastermind of all disasters."
8. Bashir walking into police detention facility
9. Bashir waving to journalist, entering the room

July 29, 2004
10. Various of Bashir supporters protesting in front of Indonesian Justice Ministry

July 28, 2004
11. Bashir's defence lawyer M. Assegaf walking into police headquarter
12. Policemen
13. Assegaf standing among men
14. Cameraman
15. SOUNDBITE (Bahasa Indonesia) M. Assegaf, Bashir's defence lawyer:
"We have sent a letter to the national police chief in which we warned him to immediately release Abu Bakar Bashir from detention and clear his status as suspect."
16. Press conference
17. Journalist
18. SOUNDBITE (Bahasa Indonesia) Suyitno Landung, Indonesia's Chief Detective:
"We will continue the process connected but issues connected with the Bali bombings will be isolated. So there will be additional work for team of investigators to complete the court documents. We will refile (our charges against Bashir) with Law Number 15 (anti-terror law)."

April 30, 2004
19. Bashir at police detention

STORYLINE

Jailed militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir accused police on Friday of detaining him on Washington's orders, saying the "law was not working" in his case.

Bashir's comments to The Associated Press were the first he's made publicly since the country's Constitutional Court last week declared part of a tough new anti-terror law unconstitutional.

His lawyers said the ruling means Bashir should be released, a demand rejected by Indonesian police.

Bashir, 65, was arrested in April on suspicion of ordering a string of terror attacks including the October 12, 2002, Bali bombings, which killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.

Bashir said, as he walked to Friday prayers at Jakarta Police Headquarters where he is being held: "If America still does not want to release me, then I won't be released."

"The law is not working," he added. "What's working is US policy and US power."

Later, speaking after Friday Prayers he called America "evil" and the "mastermind of all disasters".

Western governments, including the United States, maintain that Bashir is the leader of the al-Qaida linked terror group Jemaah Islamiyah and should be locked away.

Bashir was detained under an anti-terror law passed after the bombings that allows for the death penalty and gives greater investigative powers, along with an additional measure saying prosecutors could apply it retroactively.

Indonesia's Constitutional Court last week ruled that the additional measure was unconstitutional.

Prosecutors now plan to charge Bashir with heading Jemaah Islamiyah and playing a role in the August 2003 bombing of the J.W. Marriott hotel in Jakarta - which occurred after the anti-terror law was passed.

Bashir has little active support in the world's most populous Muslim nation, but many are sympathetic to the aging cleric's plight and allegations that he is a victim of America's heavy-handed diplomacy.

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