Jakarta – Some 150 "jihad" fighters from Indonesia are still with the Taliban in Afghanistan while others have fled to neighboring Pakistan or are stranded on the border, their recruiter said Friday.

"Those who have fighting and other skills remain in Afghanistan with the Taliban to prepare for a guerrilla war," said Syaib Didu, chairman of the militant Islamic Youth Movement which organized the volunteers' journey.

Didu said the fighters had moved from one place to another after the opposition Northern Alliance took the capital Kabul on Tuesday as the Taliban retreated.

Some 50 volunteers have returned to Pakistan safely while another 100 were still on the border, he said. He said the fighters now on the border would return to fight should there be renewed attacks by the US.

Didu, who said he had spoken to his countrymen in Pakistan by phone, had not received any reports of fatalities among the Indonesian jihad (holy war) fighters.

He said the volunteers did not consider Northern Alliance troops as enemies and they were trying to lobby them to introduce Islamic law should a broad-based government be set up in Afghanistan.

The Islamic Youth Movement had recruited volunteers to wage jihad against the US even before Washington launched military strikes in Afghanistan following terror attacks on New York and the Pentagon on September 11. The US accuses the Taliban of harboring Osama bin Laden, the suspect in the terror attacks.

The movement had also threatened to conduct "sweeps" for foreigners with the aim of intimidating them to leave Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.

President Megawati Sukarnoputri has condemned the September 11 attacks but also criticised the US-led war in Afghanistan. She has called for a humanitarian pause in the attacks for Ramadan, the holy fasting month for Muslims starting this weekend.