Explosives were found by Indonesian police during an investigation after yesterday’s suicide bombing against a catholic church.
The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a rally on the outskirts of Jakarta, killing at least three people and wounding three others, according to Kompas TV.
Investigations were carried out in several places after the attack that was launched in the city of Makassar, according to the same source.
The two suicide bombers, a man and a woman, were the only dead from the attack, from which at least 20 people were injured and was unveiled at the end of the service in the church yesterday, Palm Sunday for the Catholics, as broadcast by AMPE.
It became known yesterday that the two bombers belonged to the Jamaa Ansarut Daula (JAD) organization, which is inspired by the Islamic State and which according to the Indonesian police committed in 2018 a series of suicide bombings against churches and a police station in the city of Surabaya of which at least 30 people lost their lives.
Four alleged JAD members were arrested yesterday in West Nusa Tenggara province in connection with the attack on the temple.
About 20 alleged members of the group were arrested in January, and authorities believe it was responsible for a double suicide bombing of a Catholic church in the Philippines in 2019.
“This organization also belonged to or is linked to the one that launched the bombing of Jolo in the Philippines,” in 2019, the police chief explained. Indonesia List of Sijit Prabhοw..
The attack on the church on the island of Jolo, where the majority of the inhabitants are Muslims, caused the death of 21 people and was launched by a couple of Indonesians, while the IK took responsibility.
The President of Indonesia Joko Widodo described yesterday’s attack as a “terrorist act”.
“Terrorism is a crime against humanity,” said Widodo, who heads the world’s most populous Muslim country. “I call on everyone to fight terrorism and extremism, which are contrary to religious values.”
“Human pieces”
Outside the cathedral on the island of Sulawesi there are human pieces after the powerful explosion that occurred at around 10:30 local time yesterday.
“There are a lot of human parts near the church as well as on the street, “said Mohammad Ramdan, the city’s mayor.
An eyewitness spoke of “Very strong explosion”. “There were a lot of people injured on the road. “I helped a woman who was injured and covered in blood,” said another. “Her grandson was also injured.”
Police said a member of the security forces tried to prevent the motorcycle from entering the perimeter of the cathedral shortly before the explosion.
Indonesia’s tradition of tolerance has been tested in recent years due to the spread of conservative Islamic movements, some of which are extreme, causing concern to the country’s religious minorities – Christians, Buddhists and Hindus.
More than 200 people were killed in 2002 in attacks on the island of Bali, which were attributed to the Indonesian Islamist organization Jemaa Islamiya.
In May 2018, a family of six, with four children, had detonated bombs on three churches in Surabaya, the country’s second largest city, killing many worshipers.
The same day another family had detonated, possibly by mistake, a bomb in an apartment and the next day a third family had launched an attack on a police station.
Fifteen people were killed in the attacks, while 13 of the perpetrators lost their lives, among them five children. They were the bloodiest in the archipelago for more than a decade.
The three radicalized families were linked to the JAD and the IK claimed responsibility for the attacks.
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