Jakarta Attacks: Three People Arrested in Raid in Suburb

Local television reported more explosions in other parts of the city.

Police and officials gather in the parking lot outside the damaged Starbucks cafe where Thursday’s attack occurred in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Friday, Jan. 15, 2016. A spokesperson for the government Colonel Dwiyono said the three of them were arrested from their homes in Depok district, which lies on the outskirts of Jakarta.

Supporters of IS also circulated a claim of responsibility for the attack on Twitter late Thursday.

The attacks did not warrant Australia raising its terror threat level above the current “probable” level or restricting travel to Indonesia, which would be “counter-productive”, he said.

The police also confirmed at a press conference on Friday that the five militants in the Jakarta attack were linked to the ISIS, Two of them were possibly former convicts of terrorism.

Indonesia’s MetroTV broadcast footage of the handcuffed men being escorted by police.

Indonesia suffered several major bomb attacks by Islamic radicals between 2000 and 2009, including the 2002 strike on the resort island of Bali that killed 202 people. At least seven people were killed, including five of the assailants, and 23 people were injured, the police said.

Traffic is flowing and the road sweepers are busy, but the police post which was hit remains boarded up, and the Starbucks cafe at the centre of the attack is surrounded by iron fencing, curious onlookers and media using anything at hand to peer over the top at the blown out windows.

Karnavian has said the attackers were part of a group led by Bahrum Naim, an Indonesian militant who is now reported to be in Syria.

“This act is clearly aimed at disturbing public order and spreading terror among people”, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, said in statement on television.

An unidentified man with a gun walks in the street as people run in the background on Thamrin street near Sarinah shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia on Thursday.

He says police have recovered the bodies of the attackers, but it is not clear if more remain at large.

Indonesia has seen attacks by Islamist militants before, but a coordinated assault by a team of suicide bombers and gunmen is unprecedented and had echoes of the sieges seen in Mumbai seven years ago and in Paris last November. “He hopes the perpetrators of today’s attacks will be swiftly brought to justice”.

“They have one of the best records in world of thwarting attacks and arresting terrorists”.

They unfurled posters that read, “We are not afraid”.

The hotels interviewed and checked were those nearest to the terror attack site, including the Sari Pacific, Pullman, Mandarin Oriental, Hyatt Regency, Hotel Indonesia Kempinski, Grand Sahid Jaya, Ibis Tamarin, Fave Hotel, Art Hotel, Akman Hotel, Oria Hotel, Hotel Cemara, Hotel Kasenda, Morrisey Hotel and Amaris hotel. Who facilitated the attack?

The country has been on high alert after Islamic State warned a “concert in Indonesia” would make global news, the BBC reports.

Addressing Muslims in Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and neighboring countries, Zawahiri said the region’s Muslims were “leading an ideological and political battle against the seculars and the enemies of the religion”.

The Dutch Foreign Ministry earlier said the man was in surgery.

Militants from at least four small Muslim groups in the country’s south have pledged support to the Islamic State group, although the Philippine military says there is no evidence of direct contact or active collaboration.