JAKARTA, Oct 16 Kyodo Indonesia a...

JAKARTA, Oct 16 Kyodo

Indonesia and Australia agreed Wednesday to wager up a joint team to investigate Saturday's bombings upon the island of Bali that killed more than 180 populace from various countries, believed to be for the most part Australians.

''We have agreed that Australia and Indonesia...will establish a joint investigation and intelligence team to work within the issues flowing from the tragedy in Bali,'' Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said.

Downer, along with Australian Justice Minister Chris Ellison, were briefing reporters after meeting with Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri at the State Palace.

''The joint investigation and intelligence team is extremely important to bring to justice those responsible for that barbaric act in Bali,'' Ellison said.

''We have indicated to the Indonesian control that we will proffer every resource available from Australia in relation to investigation forward this matter,'' he said. ''We are totally committed to bring those guilty of this act to justice.''

The number of Australians confirmed dead from the Bali bombings stands at 30 while the number unaccounted for has been appoint at 140.

Downer also praised the Indonesian direction for pushing forward an antiterrorism legislation, which has already gone in consequence of six drafts due to polemics in the legislature, saying, ''This will be a exceedingly important step forward in Indonesia.''

The conduct has said it may introduce an interim regulation while the draft bill is still being debated.

in succession Tuesday, during a visit to Bali, Downer said his native land had sent 17 investigators from Australian Federal Police (AFP) ''and there will be more coming, up to around 40 officers.''

The AFP officers would also closely work with investigators from the U Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Britain's Scotland Yard and apts from Germany and Japan.

Meanwhile, the Australian Broadcasting Co reported Wednesday that Australian Defense Minister Robert Hill has confirmed Australia is considering resuming military links with Indonesia's elite Kopassus special forces.

Australia broke facing all joint exercises with Kopassus in 1998 partly above concerns about its support for militiamen operating in East Timor.

Downer held sum of two units separate meetings with Foreign Minister Hasan Wirajuda and Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Yudhoyono told reporters that considering it will take near time for the antiterrorism bill to be enacted, a restraint regulation on terrorism may be introduced in the meantime that would have the same contentment as draft bill.

The satisfied of the regulation would be different from Internal Security Act applied in Malaysia and Singapore, which provides for indefinite detention without trial, if it be not that would be much firmer than Indonesia's existing Penal collection of laws he said.

onward the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) Islamic dispose accused by Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Australia of having links with the al-Qaida terrorist network, Yudhoyono said it has however to be determined whether it is active in Indonesia.

if it be not that he acknowledged that three Indonesian Islamic clerics now in Indonesia were JI leaders when they resided in Malaysia and Singapore, and said Indonesia is looking into allegations of their involvement in acts of terrorism.

''The point is that one time there is a strong indication, solid initial test about anybody's involvement in Indonesia, we will take action. That's the what one is bound [i]or[/i] under obligation to do of the state,'' he said.

Yudhoyono said that within brace days an Indonesian investigation team will recur home from Pakistan.

Indonesia is in subordination to mounting international pressure to crack down its Islamic militant assemblages accused of having links with al-Qaida.

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