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An Indonesian legislator highly appreciated the police`s success in the war on terrorism but warned the nation not to overlook the root causes of the problem.

The role of Islamic organizations has continued to decline since the advent of the reform era 10 years ago after historically always exerting great influence in Indonesian society, an observer said.

The Attorney General`s Office has sacked two of its prosecutors for violating the code of ethics, a spokesman said.

Members of the family of Dulmatin alias Joko Pitono, a most wanted terrorist who was shot dead in Pamulang near Jakarta Tuesday, came to a police hospital here Thursday to see his body.

Police are currently still conducting a search for bombs believed to have been assembled by top terrorist Dulmatin and his group before he was killed in a shootout last Tuesday.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is slated to attend the first anniversary of the Indonesian Defense University (UPI) on March 17, 2010, which will be enlivened by an international seminar and attended by world experts.

Abu Jibril, father of a terrorist suspect being tried at the South Jakarta district court, denied that Pamulang sub-district was a nest of terrorists.

Australia will provide 215 million Australian dollars to help the Indonesian government to free from poverty.

A landslide destroyed four houses and buried the people inside in the West Java district of Cianjur on Thursday.

A top Golkar Party functionary denied here Thursday the party leadership had ever discussed a scenario to remove Vice President Boediono from his post for his alleged involvemnt in the Bank Century scandal.