Indonesian Police Say They’ve Arrested Three in Jakarta Attacks

Al Jazeera’s Sohail Rahman, reporting from Jakarta, said many circumstances surrounding the attacks on Thursday remained unclear.

“We believe there are no more attackers around Sarinah”.

Twenty people were wounded in the assault which took security forces about three hours to end.

In light of the recent spate of terrorist attacks around the world, the council “expressed serious concern with the continued threat posed to worldwide peace and security by IS, Al-Qaida, and associated individuals, groups, undertakings, and entities”, it said. “All of them are suspects, aren’t they?” said Haiti. A large auto bomb killed more than 200 on the resort island of Bali in 2002.

A message shared on Twitter late Thursday claimed the attack was the work of ISIL, and the U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group said it was circulated among pro-ISIL groups on other media.

Police think that is the case but say the situation regarding Islamic State militants in the region is complicated.

“A group of soldiers of the caliphate in Indonesia targeted a gathering from the crusader alliance that fights the Islamic State in Jakarta”, the British news agency quoted the group as saying in a statement.

Naim, believed to be in Syria, is said by authorities to be a founding member of Katibah Nusantara, the grouping of Southeast Asian fighters there. “It was just a Paris-inspired attack without being well-prepared”, he said.

“This act is clearly aimed at disturbing public order and spreading terror among people”, he said.

Another bomber exploded inside the cafe, wounding several inside.

At the scene of the attack, which played out between a Starbucks cafe and a traffic police booth, life had largely returned to normal on Friday.

“What we need today is to strengthen our capability and also sharing information with others because it is not homegrown in Indonesia, but is being part of global networks”, he said.

The injured include an Algerian, Austrian, German and Dutchman.

But there was some confusion about the Dutch citizen’s status.

A Dutch Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said a Dutch man had been seriously injured and was undergoing surgery.

The spokesman said that the national police anti-terror squad has been hunting for other jihadists across the country.

Witnesses saw at least three bodies sprawled on the sidewalk after the fighting ended. Six blasts were reported near a shopping center, hotels and embassies. “Didn’t experience this in 3.5 years in #Pakistan”, he wrote.

‘If they had in mind a Paris-style attack, well then they’ve failed dismally at that’. Hewho was once sentenced to seven years in prison for his involvement in the military-style terrorist training in Aceh.

Terrorism experts say IS supporters in Indonesia are drawn from the remnants of Jemaah Islamiyah.