JAKARTA -- Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri called on Friday for a global coalition to tackle terrorism the day after an Indonesian court handed a death sentence to one of the Bali bombers.

Delivering the ASEAN lecture here, Megawati said the September 11 attacks on the United States, last October's Bali bombing, and the deadly car bombing in Jakarta on Tuesday have shown that regional plans of action to tackle terrorism and cross-border crimes like drug smuggling are inadequate.

"It became clear that no single country or group of countries could overcome this threat alone. In Indonesia's view, which is shared by the rest of the ASEAN members, it would take a global coalition involving all nations, all societies, religions and cultures to defeat this threat," she said.

Indonesian newspapers on Friday welcomed the death sentence handed to Bali bomber Amrozi by a court on Thursday but warned it will not stop future terror attacks, AFP reported.

Amrozi, 41, was the first of 34 suspects to be tried for the October 12 bombings that killed 202 people, mostly Western holidaymakers, on the resort island.

Police blame the Bali attack on the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) militant network, which seeks to topple elected governments and set up a pan-Islamic state in much of Southeast Asia. They have also linked JI to the JW Marriott blast in Jakarta and warned of future attacks, possibly in retaliation for the Bali verdict.

The sentence is "an event of major significance," wrote The Jakarta Post in an editorial.

"Indeed, both the judgment and the circumstances that led to it can be regarded as setting a new milestone in the country's history of jurisprudence," the paper said.

A smiling Amrozi welcomed his death sentence with a raised right fist and then gave two thumbs up as police led him away. The ***Republika*** daily called his behavior "rather odd ... as if a hero had just won a war."

Koran Tempo said Amrozi's reaction to the sentence is a reminder that terrorism cannot be defeated by relying only on heavier penalties and repressive actions.

"Why? Amrozi's thumbs-up drives us to reply that we will never run out of militants ready to become martyrs," the paper wrote in an editorial.

The paper said rising "social frustration" and exploding unemployment contribute to militancy while Megawati's government has failed to promote democratic reform necessary for combating terrorism.

Koran Tempo warned the battle against terrorism will be a marathon one that must be conducted with the guarantee of civil rights and free speech.

"Without all that, we will watch again with shattered hearts a smile and happy flash in the eyes like the one shown by Amrozi yesterday," the paper said. It ran a cartoon on its front page depicting a smiling Amrozi, with sticks of dynamite in place of teeth. In its editorial, ***Republika*** said simply "Remain on guard!"