Jakarta, Nov 27: Bali authorities have stepped up security checks for suspicious individuals entering the island to prevent a repeat of the deadly terrorist attacks that shook the world-famed beach resort last year, news reports said today. Bali provincial Police Chief Inspector General Mengku Pastika said that police would tighten inspections of all Indonesians and their baggage entering the island, especially from nearby Java, in the aftermath of the Eid ul-Fitr holiday marking the end of the Ramadan month of fasting for observant Muslims.

``The measures are to be taken as a precaution against undesired events,`` Pastika told the state-run Antara news agency. Indonesian authorities have warned the public of the likelihood of more terrorist attacks on western targets during the Christmas and New Year`s holidays in Java and Bali.

Pastika cautioned Javanese returning after the nine-day Eid ul-Fitr holiday to their workplaces on Bali not to bring along unemployed friends or people with ``obscure identity``.

On October 12, 2002, a group of Moslem militants bombed two nightclubs on Bali`s Legian entertainment strip, killing at least 202 people, mostly western tourists, and plunging the tourism-dependent island economy into a slump from which it has yet to recover. Bureau Report