Funeral records suggest the remains of only four of the five Australian newsmen killed in East Timor 32 years ago are in a grave bearing their names.

Both the Coalition and Labor have committed to repatriation of the bodies of the five men, known as the Balibo Five.

Repatriation was recommended by NSW Deputy Coroner Dorelle Pinch who found last week the men were killed by Indonesian troops seeking to cover up an invasion of East Timor in 1975.

Ms Pinch found that the bodies of all five men were burnt together and their remains mixed before being divided into four boxes for burial at Kebayoran Lama cemetery in Jakarta.

But records, obtained by the ABC from the All Saints Church in Jakarta, are not conclusive, ABC radio reported this morning.

A register of services note for Friday December 5, 1975, reads: "Burial at Kebayoran Lama of remains believed to be four of five Australian journalists killed in Portuguese Timor."

The gravestone carries the name of all five newsmen and says the men died on the 16/10/1975 with the inscription "no words can explain this pointless death in Balibo".