The five militants, who laid siege to a Starbucks cafe and police post at the busy downtown junction of Jalan M.H. Thamrin and Jalan K.H. Wahid Hasyim, were killed during the attacks.
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Indonesia has been on edge in recent weeks over the threat posed by Islamist militants and counter-terrorism police have launched a crackdown on people with suspected links to Islamic State.
Meanwhile, in Malaysia a suspected militant has been arrested in a metro station in Kuala Lumpur.
Police left open the possibility that one of the five alleged militants responsible for the rampage might have been a civilian caught in the cross hairs, stressing their investigation into his identity was incomplete.
Indonesian authorities named the mastermind of the Jakarta attack as Bahrun Naim, who reports said had been living in the IS-held town of Raqqa.
“We need to strengthen our response and preventive measures, including legislation to prevent them… and we hope our counterparts in other countries can work together because it is not home-grown terrorism, it is part of the ISIS network”, he said, using a common acronym for the Syria-based group.
Pandjaitan said his office was working with parliament to make changes to legislation that would allow pre-emptive arrests.
However, according to Mr Badrodin, one of the them had received an amount of funds from the Islamic State militant group.
An Indonesian and a man of dual Canadian-Algerian nationality were killed. Twenty-four people were seriously wounded, including an Austrian, a German and a Dutchman.
Islamic State said in its claim of responsibility that “a group of soldiers of the caliphate in Indonesia targeted a gathering from the crusader alliance that fights the Islamic State in Jakarta”. Supporters of the Islamic State group claimed responsibility online.
Karnavian identified the organiser of the attack as Bahrun Naim, an Indonesian citizen who spent time in prison in 2012 and 2013 on weapons charges, saying that he had orchestrated the assault from Syria to prove he was capable of leading Katibah Nusantara. Tito Sulistio, General Director of the Indonesia Stock Exchange, said the Jakarta attacks had temporarily triggered panic selling on the stock exchange on Thursday (between 10:45 am and 12:00 noon).
The Associated Press is reporting that Police have told an Indonesian TV channel that they have arrested three men on suspicion of links to the attack in Jakarta.
Indonesia’s central bank is located in the same area, and a spokesman for the bank said a policy meeting was going ahead and a decision on interest rates would be announced as planned later in the day.
Police have been largely successful in destroying domestic militant cells since then, but officials have more recently been worrying about a resurgence inspired by Islamic State.
The attack marks the first time IS has attacked in Indonesia, home to the world’s largest population of Muslims.
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Authorities believe there are up to 1,000 IS sympathisers in Indonesia. The man leads the East Indonesia Mujaheeden network that has pledged allegiance to ISIS.
