Jakarta attack toll rises to eight

Another person has died from injuries sustained in last week’s militant attack in Indonesia’s capital, media reported on Sunday, bringing the death toll to eight.

Jakarta police spokesperson Commissioner Mohammad Iqbal said police had confirmed that Sugito – now understood to be a 42-year-old courier who was passing a traffic police post outside Sarinah Shopping Center when it was targeted by a bomb – had no connection to the “terrorist” acts.

The group planned to target government offices and foreigners in other Indonesian cities, a spokesman said.

National police chief General Badrodin Haiti told reporters the 12 arrests were made in west and east Java and in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo island.

One of the participants, Yenny Wahid from the Wahid Institute, said the goal of the gathering was to show that people are in solidarity with the authorities to oppose terrorism and keeping the country safe.

Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL) has claimed responsibility for the terror attack.

Authorities said several accounts had been found on social networking website Facebook expressing support for Thursday’s attack in Jakarta’s commercial district, which killed seven people including five militants, and injured around 30 others.

Aside from the already identified Sunakin and Muhammad Ali, the additional attackers were identified as Ahmad Muhazan Saron, who exploded a suicide bomb inside the Starbucks, and Dian Joni Kurniadi. “They might be in Jakarta, in the suburbs, or elsewhere”, he said.

He named him as Rais Karna, 37, an Indonesian who worked at a nearby bank and who died from severe gunshot wounds to the head.