Police have told an Indonesian TV channel that they have arrested three men on suspicion of links to the attack in Jakarta.
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In Jakarta Mitra Adiperkasa operates 51 Starbucks branches.
“Canada will continue to stand by Indonesia and co-operate in the fight against extremism”. However, Mitra Adiperkasa already sold part of its stakes in Burger King and Domino’s Pizza to QSR Indoburger Pte Ltd and Everstone Capital Asia Pte Ltd.
“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 homegrown terrorism, it is part of the ISIS network”, Karnavian said.
A message purportedly from the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the Jakarta attacks, and Indonesian authorities quickly identified a fugitive militant, Bahrun Naim, as the alleged mastermind. On Friday evening, police searched the home of another of the dead bombers whom they identified as Muhammad Ali.
Police spokesman Anton Charliyan said another attacker, whose name was not revealed, was also a former terrorism convict.
The message said attackers carried out the assault in Jakarta and had planted several bombs with timers.
Following recent ISIS threats, the country, which had been attacked by Islamist militants several times in the past, had been on high alert.
The detainees included a man who said he had been instructed by Bahrum Naim, an Indonesian now believed to be with IS in Syria.
The attack Thursday was a “wake-up call” for South-east Asian nations because it showed the radicalisation of Islam in the region, said Tang Siew Mun, a senior fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore.
Jakarta police chief Tito Karnavian said Bahrun had instructed operatives in Indonesia to attack the police and places frequented by Westerners on Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
Thursday’s attack in central Jakarta left seven dead, five were the attackers and two were civilians – and Indonesian and a Canadian.
On Wednesday – the day before the attack – 2,000 Indonesian security personnel were deployed to the mountainous forests of Sulawesi in the latest operation aimed at capturing Santoso.
Anti-terror units launched raids Friday seeking suspected Islamic State backers and possible support networks, said a police statement.
Another 20 people were injured, some of them reported to remain in critical condition.
Instead of expressions of fear, residents of Jakarta praised the police for quickly neutralising the attackers.
Many experts believe that Indonesia, a vibrant democracy where the vast majority of Muslims practise a moderate form of Islam, is not likely to be tipped into a cauldron of militancy.
Haiti confirmed to reporters that Afif was the attacker in blue jeans, black t-shirt and a black hat pictured preparing to raise his handgun in a photo that rippled across Indonesia’s hyperactive social media universe.
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“Their main aim was just to give impression that ISIS’ supporters here are able to do what was done in Paris”. Before that, bombings at nightclubs on the resort island of Bali in 2002 killed 202 people, mostly foreigners.
