Highlights: Indonesia on alert

1) Amrozi, his brother Mukhlas and Imam Samudra were executed by firing squad shortly after midnight on Sunday on a prison island off southern Java.

2) Indonesian security forces were on high alert on Monday after the execution of three extremist over the 2002 Bali bombings, amid fears of a violent extremist backlash.

3) An expert on the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) regional terror network, said he saw more than 20 JI militants from Malaysia and Indonesia at the funeral. 'That occasion unified these people to share contacts and for making strategies,'

4) Hardline cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, the co-founder of Jemaah Islamiyah who was jailed on a conspiracy charge related to the bombings before being released in 2006, led prayers at the brothers' burial service.

5) The head of the country's top Islamic body, the Indonesian Council of Ulamas, said Sunday the bombers could not be considered 'martyrs'. 'Someone who killed others will not die as a martyr unless they waged a war in the name of religion. They were not fighting for religion,' Umar Shihab said.

Source: AFP