Jakarta – Indonesian villagers said on Monday they had rejected a request by the family of two terror suspects killed by police to bury the bodies in their village, saying they were unwelcome dead or alive.

The brothers, alleged planners of July 17 twin suicide attacks against luxury hotels in Jakarta, are believed to have been killed in a raid on their hideout on Friday, although police have not confirmed their deaths.

The family of the dead men, Syaifudin Zuhri bin Jaelani and Mohammed Syahrir, wanted to bury them in their father's childhood village of Sampiran, West Java.

But village chief Maman Suparman said the request had been rejected after meeting of elders on the weekend. "We don't want terrorists in our midst, dead or alive. We condemn what they did... killing innocent people is inhuman. It's against Islamic teachings," he told AFP. "All of us disapproved. Our village's name will be tarnished. If the bodies are brought here we will drive them out."

Jaelani and Syahrir were accomplices of slain Malaysian terror leader Noordin Mohammed Top, the alleged mastermind of the hotel attacks who was killed by police in Central Java on September 17.

Police have confirmed the deaths of two brothers in the raid and are expected to formally identify them later on Monday. The brothers will probably be buried in a public cemetery in east Jakarta, next to another of the July 17 plotters who was killed in an earlier police operation, Tempo newspaper quoted their sister, Sucihani, as saying.