Jakarta – Residents of Sampiran hamlet in Benjaran village in Talun district, Cirebon, West Java, have refused the bodies of two slain suspected terrorist brothers – Syaifudin Zuhri and Muhammad Syahrir – in their village.

"The decision was agreed by local leaders and the family of Jaelani Irsyad (the father of the brothers," Benjaran chief Makid told Antara news agency Saturday.

Makid said that the residents considered the brothers have stained the village's name. Makid said that only Jaelani was born and raised in the hamlet, while the two brothers born and grew in Jakarta.

The brothers were killed in counterterrorism raid at a boarding house in Ciputat, South Tangerang. They are believed to be linked to the late Malaysian-born Noordin M. Top.

Both of them have been the subject of a nationwide manhunt after police linked them to the July 17 bombings of the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta, in which nine people were killed and more than 50 injured.