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China has asked Indonesia to extradite four Uighur men in exchange for returning a graft fugitive recently arrested in Shanghai, the top Indonesian security minister said on Thursday.
Coordinating Minister for Politics, Legal and Security Affairs Luhut Pandjaitan said Indonesia will allow China to question the men, who are serving prison sentences for collaborating with Indonesia’s most wanted militant, Abu Wardah Santoso.
He said China’s request was made during negotiations for the deportation from China of corruption fugitive Samadikun Hartono. Pandjaitan said Indonesia would talk with China separately about the four members of China’s Muslim Uighur minority “because it is a different case.” They were arrested in September 2014 in Central Sulawesi.