Seven people were killed including five terrorists and two civilians – one a Dutch national – and many more were injured in what was the bloodiest attack in Indonesia since the Marriott Hotel bombings in 2009.
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“These acts of terror are not going to intimidate nation-states from protecting their citizens and continuing to provide real opportunity, education, jobs, possibilities of a future”, he said.
Indonesian news outlet Metro TV News cited a senior police officer saying the Canadian killed was a man.
Police said two attackers had died in a suicide bomb attack outside the police box, while three attackers were killed in a shootout with police at the Djakarta Theatre cinema.
Jakarta police chief Tito Karnavian also said the so-called Islamic State group was “definitely” behind the attack.
He says police have recovered the bodies of the attackers, but it is not clear if more remain at large.
A series of bombs killed at least three people in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on January 14, with shots fired outside a cafe as police moved in, an AFP journalist at the scene said.
Nearby is a United Nations office, the Pan-Pacific Hotel, some Indonesian government offices and many shops and restaurants.
“We all are grieving for the fallen victims of this incident, but we also condemn the act that has disturbed the security and peace and spread terror among our people”, he said.
– As customers ran out, two gunmen outside opened fire, killing a Canadian man and wounding an Indonesian.
The windows of the cafe had been blown out.
Before that, bombings at nightclubs on the resort island of Bali in 2002 killed 202 people, mostly foreigners.
The Jakarta Police Department says the number of people being cared for as a result of the explosions is 23; five of those are police personnel.
“I was riding a motorbike when suddenly the explosion went off at the police post”, eyewitness Eliaz Warre told The Associated Press.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo condemned the attacks. He visited the site hours after the attack, walking down the middle of a street in Indonesia’s capital that’s lined with Western brands such as Burger King and Pizza Hut.
Clarke Jones, a counterterrorism expert at the Australian National University, said that the attack was of a “fairly amateurish type, with hand grenades and firearms”.
Earlier, police told to Al Jazeera that ISIL group had made specific threats ahead of Thursday’s attacks.
Thursday’s attack prompted a security lockdown in central Jakarta and enhanced checks all over the crowded city of 10 million. People were seen running or hiding behind cars.
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In wake of the attacks, the Foreign Office issued a “high terrorism threat” alert for those planning on travelling to the country.
