Starbucks shuts down Indonesia stores after Jakarta attack

“At the moment the situation is under control”, Jakarta police spokesman Muhammad Iqbal said.

Two ambulances also drove to the area, and were standing by. It was not immediately clear if they exploded bombs or grenades.

Maj.-Gen. Karnavian told reporters that after customers ran out of the café, two gunmen outside opened fire, killing the Canadian and wounding an Indonesian.

The Jakarta attacks are the fourth ISIS-linked attacks outside its territory in Iraq and Syria in 2016 already, coming two days after a suicide bomber killed at least 11 people, mostly German tourists, in Istanbul. Seven people, including five suicide bombers and gunmen, were killed during the attacks at a Starbucks cafe and a traffic police booth. Twenty people, including a Dutch man, were wounded.

The country has been on high alert after authorities said they foiled a plot by Islamic militants to attack government officials, foreigners and others. Gen. Anton Charliyan said security is focused on anticipating attacks in vulnerable regions, including Jakarta. The explosion occurred after about 25 anti-terror squad police stormed the cafe.

Indonesian police have said the attack followed the pattern of the Paris attacks in November that left 130 people dead.

Those and others were blamed on the al-Qaida-inspired Jemaah Islamiyah. Jokowi, who was in the West Java town of Cirebon, said he was returning to Jakarta immediately.

But national intelligence agency chief Sutiyoso said there were no indications that ISIS militants were behind the attack, even though he said “this is definitely terrorism”.

It released a statement online saying it had been carried out by “soldiers of the Caliphate”, targeting “citizens of the Crusader coalition” against the group.

Just seven people were killed in Jakarta despite multiple blasts and a gunfight, and five of them were the attackers themselves, but the brazenness of the assault suggested a new brand of militancy in a country where low-level strikes on police are common. He pointed to a group led by Bahrun Naim, a militant with links to IS, as most likely to be responsible for the violence. The heightened security ended January 6.

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.

Jakarta residents were shaken by Thursday’s events but refused to be cowed.

“It’s concerning (to have) yet one more day and another attack in another part of the world”, Sajjan Gohel of the Asia-Pacific Foundation told CNN. The message was circulated by ISIS supporters on Twitter late Thursday.