12 Jakarta bombing suspects arrested



JAKARTA: -- Indonesian police said they have arrested 12 people suspected of links to the Jakarta bombings, as the death toll in the brazen attacks by Muslim militants rose to eight after a third civilian succumbed to wounds, The Jakarta Post reported on Sunday.

An Indonesian man who was shot in the head when two attackers fired into the crowd died at a hospital late Saturday, Jakarta police spokesman Col. Muhammad Iqbal said Sunday.

The assaults by suicide bombers and gunmen on Thursday targeted a Starbucks and traffic police post in bustling central Jakarta, leaving eight dead, including three civilians, and more than 20 wounded.

National police chief Gen Badrodin Haiti said the 12 arrests were made in west and east Java and in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo Island.

He said police had determined money was transferred to Indonesia via Western Union. He said that one of those arrested had received money transferred from IS.

Separately, authorities say they have blocked more than a dozen websites expressing support for Thursday’s attack as they try to counter radical Islamic ideology online.

Communications Ministry spokesman Ismail Cawidu urged Indonesians to report militant websites and social media accounts.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/147014


-- Thai PBS 2016-01-18

Indonesia, tough on drugs, soft on terrorists. At least that is my take after the Bali bombings.