JAKARTA (AFP) - Indonesian police hunting militants behind a deadly attack on Australia's embassy in Jakarta named the suspected suicide bomber and revealed he sought consent from his pregnant wife to die a martyr.
Police chief Da'i Bachtiar said DNA tests comparing samples found at the scene of the September 9 blast with tissue and blood from suspects' families confirmed the bomber's identity as Heri Kurniawan, alias Golun.
"We have a very strong conviction that this person carried the bomb and died in the explosion," Bachtiar told reporters.
Nine other people were killed and more than 180 were injured in the attack, which has been blamed in the Al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah group.
Bachtiar said tests were being carried out on two further samples to determine if there were any other people in the minivan which carried the bomb at the time it exploded.
Police last week arrested a man carrying a letter from Kurniawan, who lived in the Sukabumi district in the west of Indonesia's Java island, in which he sought forgiveness from his pregnant wife and parents for the bombing.
Indonesia's chief detective Suyitno Landung, who is leading the hunt for the bombing masterminds, said the letter appealed to Kurniawan's pregnant wife to name their son Ahmad Jundullah. Jundullah means soldier of God.
"Basically the letter contains apologies and asks for permission to die as a martyr," Landung said.
According to the Media Indonesia newspaper Kurniawan's wife Sitem gave birth to their son on Thursday, naming him in accordance with her husband's wishes.
A photograph of Kurniawan taken in December 2003 was released by police, who displayed a copy of his marriage certificate showing he was wed last year.
Bachtiar added that police had found the house from which the bomb-laden vehicle left 12 hours before the blast.
"We don't know whether it was the last place where the bomb was assembled," he said.
A total of 16 people have so far been arrested over the embassy blast, although only five of them have been officially declared suspects.
Bachtiar said some of those in custody had claimed they belonged to an organisation known as the Islamic State of Indonesia, a largely ideological group with no established links to extremist violence.
Police have named two Malaysians Azahari Husin and Noordin Muhammad Top, as prime suspects in the embassy attacks and warned they could be planning further strikes.
Azahari and Noordin are also suspected of playing major roles in the October 2002 Bali bombings which killed 202 people and an August 2003 bomb blast at the Marriott hotel in Jakarta. Both attacks are blamed on Jemaah Islamiyah.
Bachtiar said Azahari and Noordin had recruited other people from near Kurniawan's home in west Java for the embassy bombing.
"Their ability to influence people is extraordinary. Noordin even managed to marry someone while on the run," Bachtiar said.
More than 200,000 leaflets bearing the pictures of nine men wanted for terrorism including the embassy blast have been distributed by police, including the Malaysians and another key suspect Rois, alias Iwan Darmawan.