Seven people, including five attackers, a Dutch UN employee and Indonesian policeman died as bombers and gunmen attacked a busy shopping district, injuring 20.
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The police chief said Indonesia had significantly developed its understanding of domestic terror networks since the 2002 bomb attack in Bali, which killed 202 people.
“We need to pay very serious attention to the rise of ISIS”, Jakarta police chief Tito Karnavian told reporters outside the city’s oldest department store, Sarinah, where the attack unfolded on Thursday.
JAKARTA, Indonesia-Three people were arrested in connection with Thursday’s deadly terror attacks in Jakarta, a police detective involved in the operation told The Wall Street Journal.
Anti-terror units launched raids Friday seeking suspected Islamic State backers and possible support networks, said a police statement.
The secretary general of the United Nations has condemned the bombings and gun attacks in Jakarta and expressed “his solidarity with the government and people of Indonesia”.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks but suspicion is likely to fall on Islamic militant groups, which have carried out several attacks in the past across Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation.
The discovery of the flag bolsters authorities’ claim that the attack Thursday was carried out by the Islamic State group, which controls territory in Syria and Iraq and whose ambition to create an Islamic caliphate has attracted 30,000 foreign fighters from around the world, including a few hundred Indonesians and Malaysians.
Police in December disrupted plans by a terror cell they believe was influenced by Naim and events in Paris – they had been planning a “concert” of attacks targeting police and foreigners.
Ms Bishop said no Australians had been killed or wounded in the attacks.
Indonesia’s national police chief Gen. Badrodin Haiti says all activities of the group responsible for the Thursday attack in Jakarta were funded by the Islamic State movement.
The Vietnamese ambassador in Jakarta has assured that all Vietnamese in the Indonesian capital are safe after Thursday’s deadly attacks, and Vietnam Airlines said services to the country won’t be affected.
He also identified one of the five attackers as Sunakim, who in 2010 was sentenced to seven years in jail for his involvement in military-style training in Aceh, but was released early.
Ms Bishop says Australia has been “deeply concerned” for some time about the possibility of an attack in the region as Islamic extremists reach out beyond the Middle East.
In either case, this was the first such attack in Jakarta since 2009, when militants bombed two Western hotels.
“They were sleeping when we arrived there”, the police officer said.
Terrorism expert Sidney Jones said the ISIS South-East Asia leader Bahrun Naim praised the tragic violence in the French capital. Many Indonesians posted pictures on Facebook and Twitter with texts such as “Indonesia is not afraid”.
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At the scene of the attack, which played out between a Starbucks cafe and a traffic police booth, life had largely returned to normal on Friday.
