The Indonesian police were close to identify the body parts resulted from the deadly explosion in front of the Australian Embassy by the DNA test, National Police Chief General Da'i Bachtiar said on Wednesday.

"Our investigation has led us to concentrate on someone who has been identified, but it still needs one more process ... perhaps in one or two days after (we examine) the DNA test result comes from other place," Bactiar told reporters at a joint press conference at the Ministry of Health.

But, he said, the police were not sure whether or not the body was in the car, as the investigators were still waiting for the final result of the DNA test.

Meanwhile, chief of detectives of the National Police, Commissioner General Suyitno Landung said that the police also could not confirm the number of people in the car bomb on Sept. 9.

"There are three blood samples which are being matched ... they are (two) from West Java and another from East Java," Suyitno told reporters at the ministry on Wednesday.

He elaborated that the samples were from the family members of the two persons, whose initials he gave are IG and N alias IB.

"They (The blood samples) were from father and mother of IG and from mother of N alias IB," Suyitno said.

The samples were taken after Sept. 22 and the examining process needs at least seven days to finish, the chief of detectives said.

The bomb killed nine people and wounded 182.

Suyitno is also the chief investigator of the embassy bombing.

The police held a Malaysian terrorist bomb expert Azhari and his fellow Malaysian Noerdin Moh. Top responsible for this attack.

Indonesian police disclose capture of Hambali's aide

The Indonesian police disclosed on Wednesday that they had arrested a man, suspected of being close to Hambali, the top leader of terrorists in Southeast Asia.

"He was involved in the Pangandaran bombing case but also had links with Hambali because he has been acquainted with (Hambali) since long time ago," Bachtiar told reporters.

The local media named the man Adrian Ali, but the police chief just mentioned him as Ali.

Bachtiar added that the police are still interrogating the man but had not concluded that he was involved in the bombing in front of the Australian Embassy in Jakarta.

Suyitno said that the man was captured by the police in June for faking documents.

"He was captured for faking identity documents in Sangihe (Island)," Suyitno said.

But a Bali bombings suspect knew Ali and said that Ali was involved in Pangandaran bombing in December 2000, the chief of detectives said but declined to give the suspect's identity.

"Another suspect said that he (Ali) was suspected of being acquainted with Hambali and had links with Hambali. Therefore we still are investigating the case," he added.

Hambali was captured by the Thai and US joint team in southern Thailand in last August and is now in the US custody.

(Xinhua News Agency September 30, 2004)