abstract:Abu Bakar Bashir ( ; also Abubakar Ba'asyir, Abdus Somad, and Ustad Abu ("Teacher Abu"), born 17 August 1938, is an Indonesian Muslim cleric and leader of the Indonesian Mujahedeen Council (MMI).
Malaysia and Singapore have wanted Indonesia to arrest AbuBakarBashir, a Muslim cleric who leads Jemaah Islamiyah, an militant group which wants to create an Islamic state through a swathe of South-East Asia.