Indonesian police say detained man 'not Husin'

KUTA, Bali - Indonesian police have denied media reports that fugitive Malaysian bombmaker Azahari Husin has been arrested.

Media reports said a man closely resembling Azahari was picked up yesterday on the small island of Banten, between Java and Sumatra, in Indonesia.

But the Commander of Banten police, Col Dadrodin Haiti, told AAP the reports were wrong.

"We don't know him," he said.

Dadrodin said the man was actually detained at Bogor, south of Jakarta, and had since been handed over to immigration officials for deportation to Singapore.

Azahari and fellow Malaysian Noordin Top are suspected of making the bombs that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, in Bali in 2002.

They are also wanted over the latest attacks in Bali on Saturday which killed 22 people, including four Australians.

- AAP