Indonesia has named mastermind of Jakarta attack

“Australians’ thoughts, prayers and resolute solidarity are with the people of Indonesia as they respond to the terrorist attacks”, he wrote.

The Philippines and Indonesia are both members of Association of South East Asian Police or ASEANAPOL, and they are constantly exchanging information to safeguard against terrorism threats, Mayor explained.

Unlike Paul, Anna and Gerard, Ole Daniel Nitter felt anxious about the terror attacks on Thursday. Indonesians were shaken but refusing…

Image: Workers set a cordon to enclose a cafe after it received damage following a gun and bomb attack in central Jakarta January 14, 2016.

“It’s clear that the [Jakarta attackers] didn’t set this up themselves”.

The threat posed by returning foreign fighters is not a new one for Indonesia.

“I want to be near the people who died to pray for them”, he said, repeating the slogan, “We’re not afraid”. Many held flowers and placed them near the spot where a bomb exploded. ‘Indonesia is a strong state, it will not be provoked by terrorism’.

The attacks left 7 people dead, including 2 civilians (one Indonesian and one Canadian).

Jokowi said: “The most important thing, thank God, is that yesterday, in a very short time – three to four hours – the situation was brought under control”.

Police believe Naim leads a militant network known as Katibah Nusantara and is pulling strings from Raqqa, Islamic State’s de facto capital in Syria.

“They looked like they were amateurs”, said Greg Barton, one of Australia’s leading experts on terrorism and a professor at Deakin University in Melbourne.

The Islamic State (ISIS) militant group claimed responsibility for the violence.

National police chief Gen. Badrodin Haiti told reporters that Thursday’s attack was funded by IS through Bahrun Naim, an Indonesian who spent one year in jail for illegal possession of weapons in 2011, and is now in Syria fighting for the Islamic State.

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

All of the attackers were killed either by their suicide vests or by law enforcement.

“This obviously was not conducted by five men, this takes teamwork”. He was released early.

“There were general plans targeting certain places like police and government offices, foreigners or those cooperating with foreign entities”, Charliyan said.

Insp Gen Tito Karnavian told the BBC the actual attacking cell was “tiny” and had been “neutralised”, but was linked to cells in Sulawesi and Java. Traffic was flowing normally on Friday morning. The spokesman said three men arrested at dawn in their homes in Depok on the outskirts of Jakarta were no longer suspected of being linked to the attack.

The country’s counterterrorism assistant director Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay later confirmed that a knife and IS documents were confiscated at the suspect’s house.

Separately, authorities say they have blocked more than a dozen websites expressing support for Thursday’s attack as they try to counter radical Islamic ideology online.