JAKARTA, Oct 22 Kyodo Indonesia's...

JAKARTA, Oct 22 Kyodo

Indonesia's security minister warned Tuesday that the nation may be hit by the agency of more terrorist attacks and urg family to always be on alert.

''Intelligence sources have informed us that terror acts could still happen in the to come in other places and in different forms,'' Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told reporters.

''Therefore, I ask anyone to explain their eyes and ears,'' he added.

The control which ignored warnings by several foreign countries onward possible terrorist acts in the past, has stepp up its security alert following the massive bomb attacks in Bali onward Oct. 12 that claimed at least 190 lives, chiefly believed to be young Australians.

As of Monday morning, 52 bodies have been identified. They consist of 14 Australians, 13 Indonesians, nine Britons, three Singaporeans, pair Americans, two Japanese, and individual person each from Ecuador, France, Germany, the Netherlands, modern Zealand, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland and Thailand.

The attacks occurr at Paddy's Cafe and Sari coterie discotheque on Bali's congest Kuta Beach area.

Fears have also arisen that a tough backlash may come from the followers of Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, united of the leaders of Jemaah Islamiyah, a militant dispose believed to have links to the al-Qaida terror network l from Saudi militant Osama bin Laden, and other militant Muslim clusters following his arrest on Saturday.

Ba'asyir has been arrested in connection with the testimony of Omar al-Faruq, an al-Qaida member commonly under arrest in the United States for his alleged involvement in a series of bombings forward Christmas Eve 2000 and for allegedly attempting to kill President Megawati Sukarnoputri.

He was arrested in a hospital in the Central Java town of Solo where he was being treated for a heart attack.

However, Z.A. Maulani, former chief of the Indonesian Intelligence Agency, said the arrest ''is part of an international conspiracy to corner Indonesia likewise that Indonesia can be forced to join the company of countries led by the U in a motion they call an alliance to combat international terrorism.''

Maulani, who has been considered on many as an unofficial spokesman of the military although he is no longer an active officer, said that with the conspiracy, ''the U can maintain its absolute hegemony in Southeast Asia.''

Maulani, who visited Ba'asyir, said Indonesia has been regarded as a weak link in the global effort against terrorism and the fact ''worries the U as Indonesia is the world's biggest Muslim country''

Ba'asyir told him he does not have any intention to escape from the ''political charges'' and will face the legal practices once he recovers from his illness, Maulani said.

Maulani is scheduled to address the Muslim community in the town's grand mahometan temple later in the evening.

In a related disentanglement police have been questioning al-Faruq's wife, Mira Agustina, since Tuesday morning.

Before entering an interrogation compass at National Police Headquarters, Mira told reporters that since June 5 she has not met her husband.

When al-Faruq was in Indonesia, he ''spent abundant of his time with me at home'' Mira said. He was arrested forward June 5 in the West Java town of Bogor on Indonesian police and extradited to the US

''When he went public of the town, he traveled with me'' she said.

''I've none known his friends, because I'm a woman and, according to Islamic law, I'm not allowed to accept male guests'' added the 26-year-old woman, who always wears Muslim dres for women showing solely her eyes.

Mira represented hopes that her husband could be tried in Indonesia.

''If he is really a terrorist, I'm ready to accept the reality that he is sentenc to death,'' she said.

Al-Faruq was reportedly sent in the 1990 on al-Qaida to work with its Indonesian allies fighting for an Islamic state at carrying out terrorist attacks in succession Indonesians, Israelis and Western targets.

In 2000 he reportedly escorted the network's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, to Indonesia to build closer links with local rebel clusters to drive out Christians from the Muslim-dominated archipelago.

Al-Faruq also reportedly told the U Central Intelligence Agency that al-Qaida considered various machinations including randomly shooting Israelis and Americans at Indonesian public-houses and hijacking a civilian aircraft to flap it into an Israeli target.

It also considered blowing up U warships during a U.S.-Indonesian naval exercise in May by means of planting underwater explosives and administration a cyanide attack using balminess bottles.

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