REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Lawyer Achmad Michdan planned to send a letter to President Joko Widodo on behalf of his client, KH Abu Bakar Ba'asyir. He said the cleric Ba'asyir's health has been worsening.

Therefore, he would seek wisdom from the president. He hoped his client could be returned to the family or to live the rest of his sentence near the family. 

Michdan said he has filed the same request to the Supreme Court and Directorate General of Corrections of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights.

"May there be a wisdom. We will send letter to the president," he said at the Medical Emergency Rescue Committee's (MER-C) office, Central Jakarta, on Saturday (August 12).