Jakarta attacks: Indonesia tracking terror cells

The assault ended when two of the attackers were killed in a suicide bombing, said police, with the other three killed in gun battles.

She confirmed no Australians were killed or wounded in the attacks. Indonesians were shaken but refusing to be cowed a day after a deadly attack in a busy district o… Traffic was flowing normally on Friday morning.

Police chief Colonel Dwiyono, from the Depok area south of the capital, told Indonesia’s MetroTV the men were arrested at dawn at their homes while they were sleeping.

But with the city’s police chief admitting Thursday’s assault is likely a game-changer for Indonesia, there is no doubt the risk of another attack has taken a new form.

The Algerian escaped with bullet wounds, police said, but the second man was shot dead.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has condemned the attacks as “acts of terror”.

Multiple blasts and bombings in the Indonesian capital on Thursday killed seven people, including five attackers.

The United States is condemning the terrorist attack in Jakarta “in the strongest terms”. “My thoughts are with the families of the victims and the Indonesian people”.

Onlookers and journalists lingered nearby, with some people leaving flowers and messages of support.

Earlier, police told Al Jazeera that ISIL had made specific threats before Thursday’s attacks.

Police have been largely successful in destroying domestic militant cells since then, but officials have more recently been worrying about a resurgence inspired by groups such as Islamic State and Indonesians who return after fighting with the group. In that exchange, he said there were more than enough Islamic State supporters to “carry out an action” in Indonesia. The U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group reportedly said that the message was also circulated among pro-ISIS groups on the message app Telegram.

Police are running sweeps in areas of the island of Java, where Jakarta is located, as well as in Kalimantan on Borneo and the island of Sulawesi, Mr. Charliyan said.

Isis said four, not five, attackers had planted several bombs with timers, had worn suicide belts and carried light weaponry.

At least 16 terrorism suspects have been arrested in Indonesia in the past month alone, and police said they received information in late November that Islamic State was planning “a concert” in Indonesia, possibly meaning an attack.

Bodies lie on the floor where the attack occurred in Jakarta.

“Attacks on innocent people today will only strengthen our resolve and redouble our efforts to combat the scourge of terrorism in Indonesia”, it said in a statement.

Speaking to reporters at the same hotel in London, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry echoed him.

“I move around, depending on where our emir orders us to go”.

Indonesia suffered several large bomb attacks by Islamic radicals between 2000 and 2009, but a security crackdown weakened the most risky networks, and there had been no major attacks since 2009.

The Indonesian government estimates that 700 Indonesians have left to fight with IS, though others think that number too high; Sidney Jones, an expert in South-East Asian security and the director of the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict, estimates that the number of adult men who have gone to fight with IS is around 250.