The attacks were claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in a statement on Thursday, in which the group claimed it had killed 15 people.
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Media said six bombs went of and a Reuters witness saw three dead people and a gunfight going on.
The explosions in front of the coffee shop injured several people, and the blast at the police post severely injured some policemen and killed the attackers, according to a policeman at the scene.
Two civilians, one thought to be a foreigner, were also reported dead after the area was secured by Indonesian security forces.
Police officers stand guard outside a damaged Starbucks cafe after an attack in Jakarta, Indonesia Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016. “I pray for speedy recovery of the injured”, he said.
Police found five improvised hand grenades, and one other bomb slightly larger than a biscuit tin.
Charilyan said police had received information in late November about a warning from the Islamic State group that “there will be a concert” in Indonesia, meaning an attack.
Security in the Southeast Asian country had been heightened around Christmas and the new year amid fears of attacks by extremists.
Police chief Colonel Dwiyono said they were detained in a dawn swoop at their homes in Depok, on the outskirts of the capital.
Five suspected terrorists launched an assault copying “the pattern of the Paris attacks” as they detonated explosives and shot at people in Jakarta.
Newspapers carried bold front-page headlines declaring the country was united in condemnation of the attack, which was the first in Indonesia since 2009.
Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, who was on a working visit in the West Java town of Cirebon, condemned the attacks.
“The state, the nation and the people should not be afraid of, and be defeated by, such terror acts”, he said. He identified them as an Algerian and a Dutch national, however Jakarta police chief Tito Karnavian said the second man was Canadian.
ISIS – also known as Daesh – officially claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Police Colonel Dwiyono told Indonesian television the men were suspected militants that could have links to the brutal violence.
Officials said the attackers were armed with light weapons and suicide belts.
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Indonesia, which boasts a population of more than 150 million Muslims, has experienced terror attacks from radical jihadists before.
