Jakarta - Indonesian officials on Friday told the families of three Muslim militants on death row for the 2002 Bali bombings to be prepared for the executions.

Imam Samudra, Amrozi, known also as the "smiling assassin" and his brother Mukhlas, alias Ali Ghufron, will each face a firing squad over their roles in the 2002 Bali bombings, which killed 202 people, mostly foreign visitors.

Indonesia does not announce the specific date or time of executions, but the attorney general's office has said the three condemned militants would be executed in early November.

Jakarta  - US president-elect Barack Obama's childhood years in Indonesia may provide him with a unique personal link to South-East Asia, but it remains to be seen how deep the old school ties go, analysts warn.

Obama, the first African-American to be elected president, can also claim to be the first US president to have spent almost four years of his childhood in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, two years attending a public Muslim school and two more in a Catholic school.

Jakarta, Nov 6 : The 44th US President-elect, Barack Obama’s, childhood home in Jakarta has become an attraction for neighbouring residents.

A resident said the furniture has remained the way it was left when Obama and his family moved out, Sin Chew Daily reported.

The resident said that the house belonged to his father-in-law, who was a good friend of Obama’s stepfather.

Jakarta  - Indonesian military authorities stepped up security of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono following threats to assassinate him and other senior officials if the three Bali bombers are executed, a military official said Tuesday.

"We will prepare the security as well as possible, from planning to the implementation," Armed Forces Commander General Djoko Santoso was quoted as saying by the state-run Antara news agency.

Jakarta - The US and Australian embassies in Indonesia received bomb threats Tuesday ahead of the imminent execution of three Muslim militants convicted of taking part in the 2002 Bali bombings, police and media reports said.

The bomb threats were sent anonymously through a telephone text message to the police, said Heri Wibowo, spokesman for the central Jakarta city police.

Police have taken the bomb threats seriously although a similar threat against a shopping mall in Jakarta on Monday proved to be a hoax.