The body of slain alleged militant bomb maker Azahari Husin was flown out of Indonesia today for burial in Malaysia, after police here performed Islamic rites over it.

Azahari, who was one of the most wanted men in Southeast Asia, was killed in a shootout with police in his hideout in the East Java hill town of Batu on Nov 9. One of his accomplices there also blew himself up.

His younger brother Bani Yamin Husin arrived in Jakarta on Sunday and later confirmed that the body, identified by police through fingerprinting, was in fact Azahari.

Police told reporters that the body was given a final ritual cleansing, was shrouded and accorded an Islamic prayer for the dead in a room at the forensic department of the hospital. Yamin was present at the hospital to witness the rites.

The body was then placed into a wooden coffin and sent by police ambulance to Jakarta's Sukarno-Hatta international airport.

It was flown to Kuala Lumpur aboard a commercial Malaysia Airlines flight, the airport's information office said.

Indonesia's deputy national police spokesman Sunarko Danu Ardanto said yesterday that Azahari's family had asked police to carry out the Muslim rites.

Azahari and his compatriot Noordin Mohammad Top, both alleged members of the Al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah extremist network, have been blamed by authorities for orchestrating the 2002 Bali bombings which killed 202 people.

They were also accused of being behind last month's triple suicide bombing on the resort island which left 20 others dead.