Indonesian prosecutors said today they would appeal against a four-year jail term for treason passed last week on prominent radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir.
The attorney general's office said the appeal would center on their charge that Bashir led Jemaah Islamiah, a southeast Asian group blamed for attacks in the region.
The panel of five judges dismissed that charge but convicted Bashir of participating in acts of treason. They rejected a central part of the prosecution case when they ruled he had not necessarily led a plot to topple Indonesia's secular government.
The prosecution had been seeking a sentence of at least 15 years.
Investigators have also linked Jemaah Islamiah to last October's Bali bomb blast that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists, and a car bomb attack on a Jakarta hotel that killed 12 people on August 5th.
Officials link Jemaah Islamiah with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda.