A suicide bombing attack outside a busy bus terminal in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Wednesday killed three police officers, the latest assault to hit the Muslim-majority country as it struggles with a surge of terror plots. Several other police officers and civilians were injured when two bombers launched the attack in a street next to the station, which sent panicked people running for their lives and clouds of black smoke billowing into the sky.

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A suspected suicide bombing at a bus terminal in Jakarta has killed three police officers and injured five others, Indonesia's deputy police chief says.

Two explosions went off about five minutes apart just after 9:00pm (local time) at a busy bus stop in east Jakarta.

National police spokesman Setyo Wasisto said an initial investigation showed two suspected suicide bombers also died in the blast.

"Tonight, to Indonesian citizens and all of us who are here at the scene, I express very deep concern," he said.

"A bomb explosion has occurred and for now it is believed to have been a suicide bombing.

"As you all know that there has been global incidents in Manchester during Ariana Grande's show, there was an explosion there.

"Then we also heard that in our neighbouring country, the Philippines, there was an attack from ISIS in Malawi city.

"In my opinion, this incident is related to global attacks and related to some groups that have attacked several places."

He said the officers had been guarding a parade by a group of local people.

Mr Wasisto said five civilians were also injured.

It was a peak time at the terminal with a public holiday falling on Thursday and the holy month of Ramadan beginning on Friday evening.

TV networks showed people helping a victim lying on the ground and three policemen carrying another victim away from the scene.

Authorities in the world's biggest Muslim-majority country have been increasingly worried about a resurgence in radicalism, driven in part by a new generation of militants inspired by Islamic State.

There has been a series of low-level attacks linked to Islamic State since January 2016, when four militants mounted a gun and bomb assault in the heart of Jakarta.

Eight people were killed in that attack, including the militants. </s> JAKARTA: A suicide bombing attack outside a busy bus terminal in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Wednesday killed three police officers, the latest assault to hit the Muslim-majority country as it struggles with a surge of terror plots.

Several other police officers and civilians were injured when two bombers launched the attack in a street next to the station, which sent panicked people running for their lives and clouds of black smoke billowing into the sky.

Human body parts and shattered glass were strewn across the road following the attack, which happened at about 9 pm as police were helping to secure a parade by a local group outside the terminal in the working-class district.

It was not clear who was behind the attack but Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, has been on high alert after a string of plots and attacks in recent times by militants inspired by the Islamic State (IS) group.

The Kampung Melayu terminal in east Jakarta—which is frequented by locals and is not popular with foreign visitors—had been busy when the attack happened, and witnesses described scenes of panic as two blasts rang out minutes apart.

Dicky Wahyudin, 37, said he had been drinking a coffee across the road when the attack happened, prompting people to flee.

“Suddenly I heard two explosions, which were big—I immediately ran away,” he told AFP.

A local shopkeeper, Rosmala—who like many Indonesians goes by one name—added: “At first I saw smoke and shattered glass, the earth was shaking, I was shocked. After a few minutes there was another blast.”

Struggle with militancy

 National police spokesman Setyo Wasisto told reporters that two suicide bombers had been involved in the attack and three police officers had died. He had earlier said he believed only one attacker was involved.

“I have to convey my deepest condolences because three police officers died,” he said.

Five other police officers and five civilians were injured, Wasisto said. Both suicide bombers, who were men, died during the attack, he added.

The terminal is a local hub served by minibuses and buses.

Indonesia has long struggled with Islamic militancy and has suffered a series of attacks in the past 15 years, including the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.

A sustained crackdown weakened the most dangerous networks but the emergence of IS has proved a potent new rallying cry for radicals.

Hundreds of radicals from the Southeast Asian state have flocked to fight with IS, sparking fears that weakened extremist outfits could get a new lease of life.

A gun and suicide attack in the capital Jakarta left four attackers and four civilians dead in January last year, and was the first assault claimed by IS in Southeast Asia.

Numerous recent IS-linked plots in Indonesia have been botched or foiled, with analysts saying that many of the country’s militants lack the capacity to launch serious attacks. </s> Three people have been killed as two explosions rocked a bus terminal in eastern Indonesia's Jakarta.

A suicide bomber is suspected to have caused the blasts.

Indonesian police said on Wednesday that there had been two explosions in the eastern part of the capital Jakarta near a bus station.

Andry Wibowo, the head of East Jakarta police, told Metro TV that people had heard two explosions and three people had been killed. </s> Jakarta: Three police officers and two suspected suicide bombers have been killed in two explosions near a bus terminal in East Jakarta on Wednesday night.

Grisly images of scattered body parts emerged after the explosions, a few minutes apart, occurred at a Trans Jakarta bus stop near the Kampung Melayu terminal in East Jakarta around 9pm local time.

National police spokesman Setyo Wasisto said five police officers and five civilians had also been injured in the attack.

No-one had yet claimed responsibility for the explosions.

Mr Setyo told Fairfax Media the two explosions took place between the bus terminal toilet and parking lot.

Police had been providing security for a torch parade to celebrate the beginning of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, which starts within days.

"Do not be afraid, do not get scared, because if you get scared it means terrorists have succeeded," Mr Setyo said.

"Police are investigating and if God permits we will know who committed (the attack)."

Deputy national police chief Syafruddin, who was at the scene, said the type of bomb was still being investigated.

He said it was a global phenomenon that police officers were being targeted and urged the public to notify police of any suspicious activity.

He said that based on information from Indonesia's special forces counter-terrorism unit Detachment 88 the body parts are suspected to belong to the perpetrator.

Eight people were killed - including four militants - in a terror attack on January 14, 2016 in front of the Sarinah department store in central Jakarta.

In December last year Indonesia's police chief Tito Karnavian attributed a sharp rise in the number of alleged terrorists handled by his force to the influence of Islamic State and the defeats it is experiencing in the Middle East.

The number of alleged terrorists dealt with by Indonesian police in 2016 was more than double the previous year, as IS encouraged terror cells to carry out attacks beyond Syria.

Mr Karnavian revealed there had been 170 alleged terrorists processed by police in 2016, compared to only 82 in 2015. </s> Jakarta: Grisly images of scattered body parts were being circulated online after a suspected suicide bomb attack at a bus stop in East Jakarta on Wednesday night.

Deputy national police chief Syafruddin said on Metro TV the suspected perpetrator and a police officer had been killed and four policemen injured.

Two explosions, a few minutes apart, occurred at a Trans Jakarta bus stop near the Kampung Melayu terminal in East Jakarta around 9pm local time.

Mr Syafruddin said no-one had yet claimed responsibility for the alleged attack.

"At the moment we are processing the information coming in," he said. "We will provide further information whether this is a terrorist attack or not."

Mr Syafruddin said body parts, a head and arms had been found.

He said it was a global phenomenon that police officers were being targeted and urged the public to notify police of any suspicious activity.

Mr Syafruddin, who was at the scene, said the type of bomb was still being investigated.

He said that based on information from Indonesia's special forces counter-terrorism unit Detachment 88 the body parts are suspected to belong to the perpetrator. </s> Indonesian police bomb squad check the area after an explosion near a bus stop in the Kampung Melayu area of Jakarta, Indonesia on Wednesday. Photo: AP

Jakarta: Indonesian police said on Wednesday that a suspected suicide bomber and a police officer were killed in explosions near a bus station in the eastern part of the capital, Jakarta.

There were two blasts in Kampung Melayu that went off five minutes apart late in the evening, police said in a statement.

It said some people, including police officers, were wounded and being taken to a nearby hospital.

A hospital official speaking on Metro TV said two policemen and a civilian were being treated, and all three were conscious. Another TV report said five people were wounded.

Authorities in the world’s biggest Muslim-majority nation have been increasingly worried about a resurgence in radicalism, driven in part by a new generation of militants inspired by Islamic State.

There has been a series of low-level attacks linked to Islamic State since January 2016, when four militants mounted a gun and bomb assault in the heart of Jakarta.

Eight people were killed in that attack, including the militants. Reuters </s> INDONESIAN anti-terrorism police killed three suspects in a gunfight on the outskirts of the capital, Jakarta, on Wednesday and foiled a suicide bomb plot, a police spokesman said.

The raid was the latest in a series over recent weeks that police say have disrupted bomb </s> Officers stand guard at police headquarters following a suicide attack in Surabaya, Indonesia. Picture: Antara Foto/Didik Suhartono via Reuters

Surabaya, Indonesia - A family of Islamist militants in Indonesia carried an eight-year-old into a suicide bomb attack against police in Surabaya on Monday, a day after another militant family killed 13 people in suicide attacks on three churches in the same city.

The suicide bombers rode two motorbikes up to a checkpoint outside a police station and blew themselves up, Tito Karnavian, the police chief in Indonesia's second-largest city, told a news conference.

He said the child survived the explosion, and CCTV footage showed a child stumbling around in the aftermath.

Four officers and six civilians were wounded in the attack, East Java police spokesman Frans Barung Mangera said.

President Joko Widodo branded the attacks in Surabaya the "act of cowards", and pledged to push through a new anti-terrorism bill to combat Islamist militant networks.

After some major successes tackling Islamist militancy since 2001, there has been a resurgence in recent years, including in January 2016 when four suicide bombers and gunmen attacked a shopping area in central Jakarta. Police suspected Sunday's attacks on the churches were carried out by a cell of the Islamic State-inspired group Jemaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), an umbrella organization on a U.S. State Department terrorist list that is reckoned to have drawn hundreds of Indonesian sympathizers of Islamic State.

"In the case of Surabaya, they escaped detection, but once it happened we moved fast to identify their network," Karnavian said.

The father of the family involved in those attacks was the head of a JAD cell in the city, the police chief said.

Earlier, police said his family was among 500 Islamic State sympathizers who had returned from Syria, but the police chief said that was incorrect.

During the hunt for the cell, police fatally shot one suspect and arrested four others.

The police chief said the JAD cell may have been answering a call from Islamic State in Syria to "cells throughout the world to mobilize."

He said the imprisonment of JAD's leader, Aman Abdurrahman, could be another motive, and cited clashes with Islamist prisoners at a jail near Jakarta last week in which five counter-terrorism officers were killed.

In another incident in Sidoarjo, south of Surabaya, Karnavian said police recovered unexploded pipe bombs at an apartment where an explosion killed three members of a family alleged to have been making bombs. Three children from the family survived and were taken to the hospital.

In all, 25 people have died since Sunday in attacks, including 13 suspected militants, Karnavian said.

CCTV footage of the blast outside the police station on Monday morning showed two motorbikes arriving at a checkpoint next to a car followed by an explosion as officers approached.

Security experts said it was the first time in Indonesia that a child had been used by militants on a suicide mission.

"The objective of using a family for terror acts is so it is not easily detected by the police," said Indonesian terrorism analyst Stanislaus Riyanta.

He said that families could also avoid communicating using technology that could be tracked.

Indonesia's chief security minister said on Monday that police backed by the military would step up security across Indonesia.

President Widodo said he would issue a regulation in lieu of a new anti-terror law next month if parliament failed to pass the bill. Police have complained that current laws do not allow them to detain suspects to prevent attacks.
Three police officers are killed in a suicide bombing at a bus station in Jatinegara, Jakarta.