Breaking: suicide bomber strike Jakarta

[zeroo]

JAKARTA, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Several explosions went off and gunfire broke out in the center of the Indonesian capital on Thursday and police said they suspected a suicide bomber was responsible for at least one the blasts.
Media said six bombs went of and a Reuters witness saw three dead people and a gunfight going on. One blast went off in a Starbucks cafe and security forces were later seen entering the building.
"The Starbucks cafe windows are blown out. I see three dead people on the road. There has been a lull in the shooting but someone is on the roof of the building and police are aiming their guns at him," said a Reuters photographer.
According to the official Jakarta police Twitter account one explosion went off in front of a shopping center called the Sarinah mall, on a main city avenue.
Indonesia has been on edge over recent weeks about the danger of Islamist militants and counter-terrorism police have launched a crackdown on people with suspected links to Islamic State.



Massive explosion, gunfire heard in Indonesian capital of Jakarta
An explosion was heard in downtown Jakarta Thursday morning in front of a popular shopping mall in an area that has several luxury hotels, embassies and offices.
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[zeroo]

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JAKARTA: Two people are reported to have died in bomb explosions in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Thursday (Jan 14).

The explosions happened at a police post near Sarinah shopping mall along the busy Jalan Thamrin. One of the victims is a police officer.

 

[hofmann]

Breaking news: Jakarta Bomb Blast

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/two-reported-dead-in/2424528.html

anyone on the ground in Jakarta?

 

[bigboss]

Re: Massive explosion, gunfire heard in Indonesian capital of Jakarta

This development should be a wakening up call for the pappies to take a hard look at their open door policy of allowing all kinds of foreigners to swarm into the island like house flies.

Are there ISIS sympathisers, moles or cells among these walk-in foreigners? If foreigners are not gainfully employed in the country, they should be deported, SPR holders or on long term pass. As usual, pappies will act blur until something bad happens in the country.

 

[zeroo]

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[virus]

There is nothing to b alarmed since foreigners were not targetted. Obviously random unassigned targets by odd ball assailant who now creditted with 72 virgins.

 

[zeroo]

 

[tonychat]

This development should be a wakening up call for the pappies to take a hard look at their open door policy of allowing all kinds of foreigners to swarm into the island like house flies.

Are there ISIS sympathisers, moles or cells among these walk-in foreigners? If foreigners are not gainfully employed in the country, they should be deported, SPR holders or on long term pass. As usual, pappies will act blur until something bad happens in the country.

Sinkies allow that to happen.. So they deserve it.

 

[JHolmesJr]

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Was scheduled to be there for a regional security conference but there were no flights from dubai.

Ironic.

 

[johnny333]

Re: Massive explosion, gunfire heard in Indonesian capital of Jakarta

This development should be a wakening up call for the pappies to take a hard look at their open door policy of allowing all kinds of foreigners to swarm into the island like house flies. ......

Things are already happening SARS, crime, riots, illegal strikes, assaults, murder,...

A bombing would just be another incident & probably be targetted at a tourists hang out like the Orchard Road area.

 

[TemaseX]

Jihadist atttacking Jakarta Starbucks, 4 dead, market rock and roll, $$ gone!

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Rupiah, stocks extend falls after explosions, gunfire in central Jakarta
A teller holds Indonesian rupiah bank notes at a money changer in Jakarta.
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KUALA LUMPUR (BLOOMBERG) - Indonesia's rupiah and stocks extended drops on Thusrday (Jan 14) after at least four people were killed in explosions and gunfire in central Jakarta and police continued to battle gunmen.

The currency fell 0.9 per cent to 13,958 per US dollar as of 12:09 pm local time, prices from local banks show. The Jakarta Composite Index of shares dropped 1.7 per cent. Sovereign bonds erased gains, with the 10-year yield little changed at 8.58 per cent, according to prices from the Inter Dealer Market Association.

At least one explosion followed by gunfire occurred outside the Sarinah shopping mall in central Jakarta, Indonesian police reported. A police official told Metro TV that between 10 and 14 gunmen may have participated in the attack, while three other explosions were also felt, TVOne reported.

Bank Indonesia's scheduled monthly interest-rate review would still take place this afternoon, said Arbonas Hutabarat, a spokesman at the central bank.

"The rupiah has sold off on the breaking developments in Jakarta, which is unnerving markets, said Khoon Goh, a senior foreign-exchange analyst at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. in Singapore. "We still don't know what is happening yet, but investors do not like uncertainty, and this just adds to it."

Indonesia has been battling violent Islamist extremists since at least 2000, but the last major attack was in 2009 when twin suicide bombings killed seven people at two Jakarta luxury hotels. Police and security analysts have warned that Indonesians traveling to join the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria posed a threat to Indonesia.

"We still don't have much information, which makes it hard to make any prediction," said Masakatsu Fukaya, a trader on the Asia and emerging-market team at Mizuho Bank Ltd. in Tokyo. "But if this is not a long-lasting incident, the impact on the economy may be limited as unlike Thailand, Indonesia doesn't depend much on tourism revenue."

 

[TemaseX]

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http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-explosions-rock-jakarta-20160113-story.html

At least 3 suicide bombers hit Starbucks in Jakarta
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Police chase suspects thought to be hiding at a cafe Thursday after a series of blasts hit Jakarta.

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At least three suicide bombers exploded themselves in a Starbucks cafe in downtown Jakarta on Thursday while two gunmen attacked a police post nearby, a witness told The Associated Press. TVOne, a local television network, reported three other explosions in other parts of the city.

At least one policeman was killed in addition to the bombers.

The first explosion appeared to have triggered a gun battle between the attackers and anti-terror police squads, and gunfire could be heard more than 1 ½ hours later.

Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said in a statement on national TV that the situation is under control and called on people to remain calm.

Also, an Associated Press reporter heard an explosion from a cafe near the Starbucks. The explosion occurred after about 25 anti-terror squad police stormed the cafe.

Tri Seranto, a bank security guard, told The Associated Press he saw at least five attackers, including three suicide bombers who exploded themselves in the Starbucks.

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He said he was out on the street when he saw the three men entering Starbucks and saw them blowing themselves up one by one. He said the other two attackers, carrying handguns, entered a police post from where he heard gunfire. He said he later saw one policeman dead and three seriously wounded.

He said he was not injured in the explosions as he was a little distance away, but close enough to witness the attack at 10.30 a.m. (0230 GMT).

He said the two gunmen ran away with police chasing them.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Gunshots were heard after the midmorning explosion in front of the Sarinah shopping mall and a police station. The area also has many luxury hotels, and offices and embassies, including the French. The other set of explosions were in neighborhoods where the embassies of Turkey and Pakistan are located.
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Tweets from the account of Jeremy Douglas, regional representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, described a bomb and "serious" exchanges of gunfire on the street outside his Jakarta office. "Didn't experience this in 3.5 years in #Pakistan," he wrote.

"A massive #bomb went off in front of our new #Indonesia office as @collie_brown & I exit car. Chaos & we're going into lock-down," he wrote. And three minutes later: "Apparent #suicidebomber literally 100m from the office and my hotel. Now gunfire."

About 30 minutes after his first post about the bombing, he posted that things were "quiet. Not comfortable quiet."

Indonesia has been a victim of several bombing attacks in the past, claimed by Islamic militant groups.

Last month, anti-terror police arrested nine men and said the group had wanted to "perform a 'concert' to attract international news coverage of their existence here." Police cited a document seized from the group that described the planned attacks as a "concert."

The country has been on high alert after authorities said they had foiled a plot by Islamic militants to attack government officials, foreigners and others. About 150,000 police officers and soldiers were deployed during New Year's Eve to guard churches, airports and other public places.

More than 9,000 police were also deployed in Bali, the site of Indonesia's deadliest terror attack, which killed 202 people in 2002.

National Police spokesman Maj. Gen. Anton Charliyan said security is focused on anticipating attacks in vulnerable regions, including Jakarta.

On Tuesday, the jailed radical Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir appealed to an Indonesia court to have his conviction for funding a terror training camp overturned, arguing that his support for the camp was an act of worship.

The 77-year-old leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah militant network filed a judicial review of his 2011 conviction, when he was sentenced to 15 years in jail for setting up the camp in Aceh province. A higher court later cut the sentence to nine years.

Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, has suffered a spate of deadly attacks by the Jemaah Islamiyah network in the past. But strikes in recent years have been smaller and less deadly, and have targeted government authorities, mainly police and anti-terrorism forces.

 

[TemaseX]

Re: Jihadist atttacking Jakarta Starbucks, 4 dead, market rock and roll, $$ gone!

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/15/world/asia/jakarta-explosion.html?_r=0


Jakarta Attacks Leave at Least 4 Dead, Police Say

By JOE COCHRANEJAN. 13, 2016
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JAKARTA, Indonesia — The Indonesian capital was rocked by a series of explosions and gunfire in the city center on Thursday, in what the police called a terrorist attack. The police said that at least four people had been killed, and it was feared that the toll would rise.

The attack initially appeared to target a traffic police post at a major intersection, which was heavily damaged by bomb blasts, and at least one police officer was killed by gunfire from an assailant, according to witnesses who spoke to a local television station, TV One.

Gen. Anton Charliyan, a spokesman for the Indonesian National Police, said the attack involved an unknown number of assailants with grenades and guns, at least one of whom was on a motorcycle. He said no suicide bombers were involved. Three civilians and a police officer were killed, he said.
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General Anton said the police had received information in late November about a warning from the Islamic State militant group that “there will be a concert” in Indonesia, meaning an attack.
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Video showed a series of explosions in a parking lot across the street from the police post beginning at 10:40 a.m. local time, just yards from the front doors of a Starbucks coffee shop and a Burger King restaurant.

The attack then appeared to broaden, with at least one assailant firing at the police post. Numerous police vehicles and ambulances were on the scene of the attack, which occurred on Jalan Thamrin, one of Jakarta’s main thoroughfares, and yards away from the popular Plaza Sarinah shopping mall. The area is normally one of the busiest in the city, but photos circulating on social media after the attack began showed the wide boulevards nearly empty of cars.

The United States Embassy in Jakarta issued an emergency message telling Americans to avoid the area, saying that the “situation continues to unfold.”

It was the first major attack in Jakarta since the twin bombings of two hotels in 2009.

Jeremy Douglas, a United Nations official based in Bangkok, said he heard explosions as his car was pulling into the building housing his agency’s offices.

“The driver got a call that something happened at the building,” he said by telephone. “I got out of the car, and an explosion went off behind the building. I could feel it.”

Mr. Douglas, the regional representative for Southeast Asia and the Pacific for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, said he sought refuge in the offices and heard more explosions from there, as well as gunfire. “It sounds very close,” he said.

Indonesia is the world’s most populous majority-Muslim country, but it has a secular government and influential Christian, Hindu and Buddhist minorities. Though it is far from the conflicts of the Middle East, the country has experienced several terrorist attacks by Islamist militants that have killed hundreds, including bombings on the resort island of Bali in 2002 and 2005, and at international hotels in Jakarta in 2003 and 2009.

Splinter cells of Jemaah Islamiyah, the now crushed Southeast Asian terrorist group that was linked to Al Qaeda, have targeted the police in recent years.

Last year, it was reported that at least 50 Indonesians had joined the thousands of foreign fighters who have traveled to Syria to help extremist groups trying to create an Islamic state there.

Indonesian extremists are known to have trained and fought in Afghanistan in the 1980s and ’90s, in the southern Philippines and possibly in Bosnia. The involvement of Indonesian fighters in Syria became more prominent after an extremist from Borneo named Riza Fardi was killed there last year, according to the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict in Jakarta.

Muhammad Rusmadi contributed reporting from Jakarta and Patrick Boehler from Hong Kong.

 

[TemaseX]

Re: Jihadist atttacking Jakarta Starbucks, 4 dead, market rock and roll, $$ gone!

Singapore's turn to get attacked not too far from now.

 

[tonychat]

Re: Jihadist atttacking Jakarta Starbucks, 4 dead, market rock and roll, $$ gone!

Singapore's turn to get attacked not too far from now.

Yeah.. i am waiting for those 70% sinkies to be killed.. That is what they voted for...death!!!!

 

[zeroo]

The moment suicide bomber blew himself up in Jakarta caught in video!

https://www.facebook.com/coolsingaporebureau/videos/805901849536478/

 

[xebay11]

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4 dead including 3 suicide bombers, effectively means only one dead. No biggie, move along now.

 

[Leongsam]

Re: The moment suicide bomber blew himself up in Jakarta caught in video!

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[zeroo]

Re: The moment suicide bomber blew himself up in Jakarta caught in video!

 

[zeroo]

Re: The moment suicide bomber blew himself up in Jakarta caught in video!

PAP cares!