Indonesian prosecutors have asked for a life sentence rather than the death penalty for an Islamic militant accused of helping to build the bomb used in the 2002 Bali nightclub attacks.
Prosecutors had originally asked for the death penalty for Umar Patek when the trial started in February.
Prosecutor Bambang Suharyadi told the West Jakarta District Court Monday that Patek should get a life sentence, even though he is guilty of premeditated murder.
Patek was captured last year in January in the same Pakistani garrison town where U.S. forces killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
The Bali attacks and a string of others aimed at foreigners in Indonesia over the past decade have been carried out by members of Jemaah Islamiyah – a hard-line Islamist group that has advocated creating an Islamic state spanning much of Southeast Asia.
Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim nation. VoA.