Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia said it may pay a visit to Hambali, a suspected Indonesian terrorist, who had been jailed for the past few years by the United States in Guantanamo, Cuba,  following the US plan to shut down the jail located in the US naval base.

"If there is such a possibility, we will consider," Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda said in Jakarta Wednesday after a press conference with his American counterpart Hillary Clinton at the Foreign Office.

Hassan was answering a question on the possibility of Indonesian authorities to pay a visit to Hambali, like what the authorities of other countries had done.

Reuters recently reported that a number of British government officials visited the US jail in Guantanamo Bay to meet British citizens held at the jail in the last five years.

The visit was reportedly aimed at preparing the repatriation of a prisoner, Binyam Mohamed, if the US eventually decided to close down Guantanamo.

The british delegation to Guantanamo includes a doctor who will make a report on the prisoner.

The visit by the British officials also followed a commitment of US President Barack Obama to prioritize a review of the Mohamed case.

This measure may provide a basis for Mohamed, who admitted that he had been tortured by foreign agents when in the US jail, for repatriation to the UK.

In the meantime, Foreign Minister Hassan said the Hambali case was not discussed in his meeting with his visiting US counterpart  Hillary Clinton on Wednesday.  
    
"Therefore we also have not received a full report on how the Obama administration will follow up on his statement to shut down  Guantanamo," Hassan said.

"Whether they (the prisoners) will be transferred to the jails in the American continent or selected for their further legal process, or which of them would be set free. So, we are still waiting for the decision," he added.

Hambali alias Encep Nurjaman was held at the Guantanamo jail since 2003 after he was arrested in the Philippines on charges of one of the Jamaah Islamiyah terrorist leaders suspected of playing an important role in the first Bali Bombing in 2002, which killed  202 people, mostly Australian tourists.

Guantanamo jail was built in 2002 at the US military base in Cuba for holding people arrested in the 'war against terror' launched following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the Twin Tower in Manhattan, and the Pentagon in Washington. (*)