(11 Aug 2003)
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4. Irvan Awwas, Mujahidin Council leader
5. SOUNDBITE (Bahasa Indonesia) Irvan Awwas, Mujahidin Council Leader:
"The Mujahidin Council will always take minor and also major decisions within the parameters of Sharia Law and we will never walk out from this basic principle."
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7. SOUNDBITE (Bahasa Indonesia) Irvan Awwas, Mujahidin Council Leader:
"Our struggle for Sharia Law will never stop at this point because of the imprisonment of Abu Bakar Bashir. For us, jail is not the end of the Islamic propagation (of Islamic faith) journey. We will keep going no matter what happens, because all of this is really just an obligation for us."
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STORYLINE:
A leader of the Indonesian Mujahidin Council - known as the Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia (MMI) - Irvan Awwas, said on Monday that the organisation won't stop "the struggle" to expand the Islamic faith in spite of the arrest of its top leader Abu Bakar Bashir.
Awwas was talking on the second day of the MMI's annual conference.
About three thousand Muslim militants are in Solo - about 600 kilometres (370 miles) east of Jakarta - to support Abu Bakar Bashir.
An election to replace Bashir is due to place on Tuesday.
Bashir, 64, is alleged to be the founder of the Southeast Asian terrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah.
The group - believed to be linked to al-Quaida - has been blamed for various attacks, including last weeks bombing at Jakarta's Marriott Hotel, and the October 12 Bali bombings that killed 202 people.
Bashir's supporters - understood to have travelled from all over Indonesia - rallied on Sunday in a show of solidarity.
In a speech read by Mujahidin Indonesian leader, Irvan Awwas, at the rally, Bashir urged listeners to fight for the adoption of Islamic Sharia law and to ignore being labelled "terrorists."
The rally was the first public display of solidarity with Bashir, currently on trial in Jakarta, since the Marriott attack.
The MMI campaigns for the imposition of Islamic Sharia law in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.
Several of its members have been linked with Jemaah Islamiyah and blamed for plotting or carrying out attacks in other Southeast Asian nations.
Bashir, 64, has repeatedly denied any involvement in terrorist acts and maintains that Jemaah Islamiyah doesn't exist.
A verdict in his trial is expected by October.
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