Police Commissioner Budi Hartoyo said rescuers had unearthed 17 more bodies Sunday in the hillside village of Sijeruk in Central Java to bring the total recovered to 75.

"We have found a total of 17 corpses today. It appears that there are no more bodies still buried under the mud," said Hartoyo, who heads police operations in Banjarnegara district which oversees the village.

Hartoyo earlier said rescuers had found 18 bodies on Sunday. He blamed the mix up on a double entry of data.

"Tomorrow we are just to going clean up the place and level the land, which remains dangerous for people to reside in," he told AFP.

He said plans to relocate surviving residents of the village were still being drawn up by local officials.

Tonnes of mud slammed into Sijeruk before dawn on Wednesday following days of heavy rain. Hundreds of rescuers have used backhoes and hand tools to search for the missing.

Officials on Saturday revised the estimated death toll down from around 200 to about 70 after scores of people initially reported missing were accounted for.

The landslide in Sijeruk, 370 kilometres (230 miles) east of Jakarta, was the second disaster in days on Java island.

Flash floods killed at least 77 people and swept away hundreds of houses in several villages in neighbouring East Java province on New Year's Eve.

Both disasters followed days of monsoon rains.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Friday pledged to investigate claims that deforestation was to blame for the flooding and landslides.

Environmentalists pointed the finger at massive logging and land conversion for farming on Java, one of the world's most densely populated islands, and called on the government to take action.

Forestry Minister Malam Sambat Kaban has denied that the landslide in Sijeruk was caused by logging and blamed unstable ground in the area.

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