By Alan Sipress
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, March 9, 2004; 2:21 PM
JAKARTA, Indonesia, March 9 -- The Indonesian Supreme Court has reduced the jail sentence for Abubakar Baasyir, a Muslim cleric named by security officials as the leader of a Southeast Asian terrorist network, allowing him to go free by early next month, a court official said Tuesday.
The judges slashed in half the three-year prison sentence imposed by a lower court but did not provide an explanation for their ruling.