Family members and relatives queue to place flowers during the Bali memorial service

By Kazi Mahmood, IOL Southeast Asia correspondent

KUALA LUMPUR, October 12 (IslamOnline.net) - While more than 2,000 people gathered in an open-air amphitheater on Bali island Sunday, October 12, to commemorate the 202 people killed in the 2002 Bali bombings, the Indonesia people were asked to be on alert for possible terrorist attacks, arousing fears that another Bali was still a probability, reported Jakarta Post online news service.

A day before the commemoration, Indonesia ’s police reminded the people that the country was under siege of terror attacks, allegedly by the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI).

The vague group was mentioned despite promises by the police that it will not issue statements that qualify Muslims or Islam as terrorist entities, remarked experts on politics in the Indonesian capital.

"The police was told by the Ulema and political leaders a month ago not to use the JI as the terror organization in Indonesia , this hurts the Muslims and targets the Muslims," said Abdur Rahman, a political writer in Indonesian press.

Mohamad Selamat, a writer of Islamic books on Indonesia and an avid commentator on Indonesian politics, also said the JI should not have been mentioned by police as a possible threat in Bali since this could cause rifts among different communities in the country.

Representatives of the 22 nations which lost citizens in the attack lit candles in memory of the dead.

They came from across the world, including Brazil , South Africa , Portugal , the United States , South Korea , Australia and Indonesia .

Australian Prime Minister John Howard also attended the early morning service, which featured Christian hymns, Bible passages and popular songs. The names of the dead were read out.

"Yours is a loss that can never be recovered," Howard told the families of the victims.

"We haven't forgotten you, we never will. Australia will never forget October 12, 2002 ," he added.

The blasts, blamed on the JI, were the bloodiest since the 9-11 attacks against the U.S.

A little girl put flower in a remembrance pool during the memorial service

Indonesia ’s President Megawati Soekarnoputri did not attend the memorial event on the grounds that she was previously scheduled to meet visiting Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Sunday in Jakarta .

Indonesia was represented by Minister for Political and Security Affairs Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono who vowed that his country would bring to justice those still wanted in the attack.

Indonesia , accused of being soft on terrorism, scored major points with the Bali bombing case which saw several of the perpetrators being charged in courts.

Some even condemned to death or life imprisonments.

Susilo added these diabolical men and their friends of evil simply have no place in the Indonesian society.

"They belong in our darkest dungeon," he said.

With the Bali administration reluctant to organize an official memorial service, most of the organizing and preparatory work was left to local people and community organizations.

Separately, several survivors of the bombings said although they were still traumatized by the tragedy, they would turn up for the event.

Hundreds of police personnel have already been deployed in the area around the monument since Friday night.

Police have also acquired new surveillance and supervision vehicles which are heavily laden with sophisticated audiovisual equipment that allows the police operational commander to direct personnel from his office, some 15 kilometers away in Denpasar.

Over 2,000 officers and 500 traditional security personnel provided security at the ceremony.