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AKARTA: Fashion designer Adjie Notonegoro, who is currently a defendant in an embezzlement case, says he wants to share his design skills with convicts.

“I would like to share the knowledge with them because perhaps some of them want to be tailors or some of them want to be designers, and I really don’t want them to be unemployed when they are out of prison,” he said Monday in Jakarta while waiting for his sentence request to be read, kompas.com reported.

Adjie was arrested last year for fraud. He was detained again in May by the Jakarta High Court.

He said he felt a sense of brotherhood with his fellow inmates. “Especially in the fasting month, we have sahur [pre-dawn meals] and tarawih [night prayers] together,” he said.