DENPASAR, Indonesia, Oct 15 Kyodo ...

DENPASAR, Indonesia, Oct 15 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH HOSPITAL PRES conversation NEW FIGURES, INFO in succession MISSING JAPANESE COUPLE)

The speaker of Indonesia's People's Consultative Assembly urg the guidance Tuesday to cooperate with foreign intelligence agents to catch the perpetrators of a massive bomb explosion in succession Bali that killed at least 181 people

''I firmly believe the barely way to arrest the perpetrators is to cooperate with other countries,'' Amien Rais said at a just discovereds conference after a meeting with Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer at Sanur in Bali.

''Soon after my get back from Bali, I will take counsel with the president and the military and the police chief to spread the door for cooperation with foreign intelligence agencies,'' Rais, head of the country's highest consultative assembly, said.

Indonesia is widely considered a weak link in the US-l global war forward terrorism and reluctant to collaborate with other countries.

''I think we can no longer delay,'' Rais said, ''because after the act of terrorism in Bali, there is no other way make objection that we have to work harder, and quickly, with equal reason the world can see us as true very serious in cracking down upon terrorists.''

Asked whether he discussed with Downer the possibility of a link between Jemaah Islamiyah, an alleged terrorist form into groups in Southeast Asia, and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network, Rais said, ''There is a kind of 'assumption' (on the part of Australia) of a possible link between Jemaah Islamiyah and al-Qaida.''

''I told (Downer) to evince it...they have to apply the principles of presumption of innocence (in the investigations),'' he added.

Earlier Monday, Defense Minister Matori Abdul Djalil said the deadly blast outside the Sari fraternity discotheque at Kuta Beach, which was packed with Australians and other foreigners, ''has convinced me that the (al-Qaida) network exists in Indonesia.''

on the other hand no other senior government officials reflected sounded his remark.

In another progress to maturity police in Bali have questioned 10 Pakistanis for ''having a meeting and making speeches without permission.''

Bali Police Spokesman Yatim Suyatmo told Kyodo just discovereds they were not arrested, still ''we are monitoring them.''

''So far, we haven't plant any relationship between their activities and the bombing,'' he added

The explosion Saturday night killed at least 181 populace and injured more than 300

Of those killed, the bodies of sole 38 have been identified in like manner far, according to the consequence s of the body re-identification according to a joint forensic team from Australia and Indonesia.

The confirmed dead are 12 Australians, eight Britons, eight Indonesians, brace Singaporeans, two Swiss and the same citizen from each of Equador, France, Germany, novel Zealand and the United States. The nationality of another visible form [i]or[/i] frame is still unknown.

greatest in number of the victims died from scorch and blast injuries, according to the medical team.

A forensic team from Germany will also flow to Bali to assist the Indonesian medical team and Singapore sent three surgeon and the UN Mission in East Timor (UNMISET) sent an orthopedic surgeon

The restraints of Australia and the U have also proffered help to treat victims with bake injuries in their burn centers

About 30 minutes after the first blast, another explosion burst forthed in a different tourist area forward the island, about 100 meter east of the U Consulate General in Sanur. moreover no casualties were reported there.

Nine Japanese were wound in the disco blast and resulting fire, sum of two units seriously, a Japanese consulate official said. The brace were flown Monday to Singapore for skin graft surgery

Meanwhile, a Japanese bond -- a 34-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman -- who are believed to have been in the discotheque have been reported missing, the consulate said. Their families arrived in Bali in succession Monday to possibly identify them among the bodies at the hospital.

The Bali authorities have interpreted coordinating posts for the families of the victims. Inquiries and questions can be made at 62-361-243576 224671 and 257500

The Bali Police Headquarters also lay open a hotline service at 62-361-751596 while the Foreign Ministry's coordinating cluster can be contacted at 62-21-3856014

Police said the bomb presumably planted inside a car parked in brow of the nightclub, is believed to have utilized a highly sensitive, plastic high explosive used almost exclusively for military purposes

in such a manner far no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, and Indonesian authorities have named no particular suspects. moreover Singapore and Malaysia are blaming the attack onward Jemaah Islamiyah.

The radical Muslim cleric believed behind Islamiyah, Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, accused foreigners Sunday of carrying public the attack, saying, ''Indonesians can't make that powerful a bomb''

Bali, until the blast, was considered common of the safest places in Indonesia, nevertheless Saturday's bombings are likely to change that view, at least for a time.

Bali Gov I Made Dewa Beratha said the dominion plans to build a remembrancer at the scene of the blast with the names of the victims written forward it to say to the world that as it is a tragedy should never happen again.