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2016 Jakarta attacks

Coordinates: 6°11′12.56″S 106°49′23.38″E / 6.1868222°S 106.8231611°E / -6.1868222; 106.8231611
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2016 Jakarta attacks
2016 Jakarta attacks is located in Jakarta
2016 Jakarta attacks
Attack site shown on a map of Jakarta
LocationJakarta, Indonesia
Coordinates6°11′12.56″S 106°49′23.38″E / 6.1868222°S 106.8231611°E / -6.1868222; 106.8231611
Date14 January 2016
10:40 - 15:30 WIB (UTC+07:00)
Attack type
Suicide bombings, shootout
Deaths2 victims
5 perpetrators[1]
Injured24
PerpetratorsIslamic State of Iraq and the Levant
No. of participants
5 to 14

On 14 January 2016, multiple explosions and gunfire were reported near the Sarinah mall in central Jakarta, Indonesia, at the intersection of Jalan Kyai Haji Wahid Hasyim and Jalan MH Thamrin.[2] One blast went off in a Starbucks cafe and one went off at a police post outside the mall.[2] The attack occurred near a UN information center, as well as luxury hotels and foreign embassies, including France's.[1] The UNEP has confirmed that a Dutch UN official has been seriously injured in the attacks.[3] It was reported an armed stand-off took place on the fourth level of the Menara Cakrawala (Skyline Building) on Jalan MH Thamrin.[4] At least seven people—five attackers and two civilians (an Indonesian and a Canadian)—were killed and 23 others were injured in the attack. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility.[3]

Background

Further information: Terrorism in Indonesia

Though Indonesia is far from the conflicts of the Middle East, the country has experienced several attacks by Islamist militants in the past two decades that have killed hundreds.[5]

This was the first major attack in Jakarta since the 2009 Jakarta bombings, which were carried out by Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) and killed 7 plus 2 suicide bombers.[5] JI is an al-Qaeda-linked group seeking to unite Indonesia, Malaysia, and the southern Philippines under an Islamic state.[6][7] Since the 2002 Bali bombings, in which over 200 were killed, Indonesia has stepped up attempts to crackdown on violent extremism. A law was enacted by the Indonesian federal legislature in 2003 in this regard.[vague][8]

According to a spokesman for the Indonesian National Police, the police had received information in November 2015 about a warning from ISIL that there would be an attack in Indonesia.[9][5] In 2015, it was reported by the Jakarta-based Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict, that at least 50 Indonesians had joined the thousands of foreign fighters who have traveled to Syria to fight for extremist groups trying to create an Islamic state there.[10]

Attacks

Damaged police post caused by suicide bomb attack in front of the Sarinah mall

On 14 January 2016 at 10:40 a.m. local time, several blasts followed by gunfire were reported to have occurred in Central Jakarta, which is home to many luxury hotels, and offices and embassies.[11] According to a spokesman for the Indonesian National Police, the attack involved an unknown number of assailants with grenades and guns.[5] A total of six explosions were counted by news media in which five attackers and two other people were believed to have been killed.[12]

The attack targeted a traffic police post at a major intersection, near from the front doors of a Starbucks coffee shop and a Burger King franchise. The post was heavily damaged by explosions.[5] Although three explosions in Cikini, Slipi, and Kuningan neighborhoods, near Turkish and Pakistan embassies were reported,[13] the Jakarta police later denied these explosions, as well as attacks in Simatupang and Palmerah, as a hoax.[14]

In one incident eyewitnesses say at least three attackers entered a Starbucks cafe, which is close to several embassies, and detonated explosives before opening fire.[1] One explosion went off in front of a shopping centre called the Sarinah mall, near the UN office.[11]

Perpetrators

According to Jakarta police, an ISIL-linked Indonesian extremist, Bahrun Naim, was the mastermind behind the attack. Naim, thought to be a native of the Central Java city in Pekalongan, relocated to Raqqa, Syria sometime before the attacks; he has been known to authorities since at least 2010.[15][16] Naim appeared to maintain a blog in which he praises terrorist attacks, including the November 2015 Paris attacks, and calls on Indonesians to carry out such attacks in the archipelago.[16][17] Naim was arrested in November 2010 at his home in Solo, Indonesia on suspicion of terrorism connections and was convicted in June 2011 on weapons charges, with the court finding insufficient evidence to convict him of terrorism.[16]

An Indonesian national police official said three men had been detained in the investigation into a four-hour siege in the nation's capital Thursday that left seven people dead.[18]

Police were able to name one of the attackers, Afif Sunakim, who was seen carrying a gun and rucksack during the attacks. He was jailed for seven years for attending a militant camp. [19]

Casualties

Deaths by citizenship
Citizenship Deaths
 Algeria 1[20]
 Canada 1[21][22]
 Indonesia 1[22]
Total 3
Counts are based on preliminary data and may not be complete.

Anton Charliyan, spokesman with the police, updated that five attackers and two civilians were killed in the attacks. Three of the five dead attackers were shot dead in front of the Starbucks outlet in an exchange of gunfire with police whereas the other two attackers died when they detonated suicide bombs as they drove their motorcycles into a police post at the intersection near the Sarinah shopping center.[3] A total of twenty people were injured, including five police officers and an Algerian, who escaped from Starbucks. The Dutch embassy also confirmed that one of its nationals was seriously injured and being treated at a hospital.[23]

Reactions

Domestic

Condolences flower in front of Sarinah mall. The text wrote: "Condolences for Sarinah victims, We are Not Afraid, from DPN Seknas Jokowi".

President Joko Widodo called the attacks "acts of terror" in a televised statement. In his statement, he said "Our nation and our people should not be afraid. We will not be defeated by these acts of terror. I hope the public stays calm. 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."[24]

Residents of Jakarta, and across Indonesia took his statement "We are not afraid" to social media with the hashtag #KamiTidakTakut, which was widely used on Twitter in posts offering condolences to the victims or for expressing defiance.[3]

Starbucks issued a press statement condemning the attack.[3] They also stated that they would close all their Jakarta branches "until further notice."[25]

International

Supranational
States

See also

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