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Jakarta, January 15
Army trucks thundered through Indonesia’s capital today as authorities boosted security at possible terror targets and carried out searches across the country a day after Jakarta’s deadly militant attacks that left seven dead.
Security forces killed one suspected militant in a gun battle in Central Sulawesi, while two others were arrested in the city of Cirebon in West Java. The three were believed to be Islamic State supporters, but not directly connected to the Jakarta attack, police said.
Four of the five men killed in suicide and gun assaults yesterday had been identified, and a subsequent search of one of their homes found IS-related evidence, including the group’s flag, national police spokesman Anton Charliyan said.
The rapid-fire series of bombings and a shootout between gunmen and police erupted in a busy part of the capital, lined with malls and foreign missions, shocking moderate-Muslim Indonesians and leaving two civilians and five attackers dead.
Authorities in the world’s most populous Muslim country have blamed a network of Islamic State fighters from Southeast Asia that was forged in the radical jihadist group’s war in Syria and Iraq. “An alert has been imposed throughout Indonesia,” said Charliyan. “National police are on their highest alert, especially in areas considered targets of terror, like police stations, government offices, and embassies, with army backup.” He did not elaborate on the army’s role but AFP reporters saw a convoy of a half-dozen military trucks filled with heavily armed troops in central Jakarta.
