US and local forensic experts will conduct a new round of DNA tests on the alleged corpse of Indonesian militant Dulmatin after a previous DNA test reportedly turned out negative, an ABS-CBN Regional Network Group report said Tuesday.

ABS-CBN Zamboanga correspondent Leila Vicente said DNA tests conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Philippine National Police showed that the body recovered in Tawi-Tawi last month was not Dulmatin's.

Quoting sources, Vicente reported that the body could be that of a certain Muhammad, a Jordanian translator.

The Philippine military said Tuesday it was still waiting for the results of the DNA test a day after Indonesian media reports said the body was not Dulmatin.

"We are awaiting the official results of the DNA tests conducted by the FBI/PNP (local police). And if it's not Dulmatin, it is still one terrorist less," military spokesman Lt. Col. Bartolome Bacarro said.

Officials of the Armed Forces’ Western Mindanao Command (WesMinCom) refused to comment on the matter saying they would wait for the official reports of the two agencies.  

Vicente said tissue and blood samples taken from the children of the alleged Bali bomber were unreliable to verify it the body was indeed Dulmatin’s.

Officials of the Armed Forces’ Western Mindanao Command said the samples for comparison should have been taken from Dulmatin's mother or a sibling.

Members of the Military Intelligence Group-9 exhumed the cadaver in Sitio Salisit, Barangay Balimbing in Panglima Sugala town on February 18.

The cadaver was first brought to a temporary US military facility inside the WesMinCom headquarters in Zamboanga City.

A military official said then that the result of the DNA test will be out after two weeks.

Indonesian national police spokesman Anton Bachrul Alam was quoted Monday by the Jakarta Post as saying the body was not Dulmatin.

Alam said an Indonesian team was sent to the Philippines to check on the remains and "we affirm that the exhumed body was not that of Dulmatin."

Dulmatin was once a senior figure in the radical Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) movement and is believed to have been hiding in the southern Philippines for the past five years. Dulmatin is accused of helping JI plan and carry out the 2002 Bali bombings, which killed 202 people on the Indonesian holiday island, most of them foreign tourists.

The US government has offered 10 million dollars for Dulmatin and one million dollars for fellow Indonesian militant Umar Patek.

Sidney Jones, an expert on JI, said last month that JI contacts in Indonesia would have likely known if Dulmatin was dead.