2016 Jakarta attacks
| 2016 Jakarta attacks | |
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| Part of Spillover of the Syrian Civil War | |
 Attack site shown on a map of Jakarta
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| Location | Jakarta, Indonesia |
| Coordinates | 6°11′12.56″S 106°49′23.38″E / 6.1868222°S 106.8231611°ECoordinates: 6°11′12.56″S 106°49′23.38″E / 6.1868222°S 106.8231611°E |
| Date | 14 January 2016 10:40 - 15:30 WIB (UTC+07:00) |
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Attack type
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Suicide bombings, shootout |
| Deaths |
8 total
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Non-fatal injuries
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24 |
| Perpetrators | Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant |
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Number of participants
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4 to 14 |
8 total
On 14 January 2016, multiple explosions and gunfire were reported near the Sarinah shopping mall in central Jakarta, Indonesia, at the intersection of Jalan Kyai Haji Wahid Hasyim and Jalan MH Thamrin. One blast went off in a Starbucks cafe and one went off at a police post outside the mall. The attack occurred near a United Nations (UN) information centre, as well as luxury hotels and foreign embassies, including France's. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) confirmed that a Dutch UN official was seriously injured in the attacks. It was reported an armed stand-off took place on the fourth level of the Menara Cakrawala (Skyline Building) on Jalan MH Thamrin. At least eight people—four attackers and four civilians (three Indonesians and an Algerian-Canadian)—were killed, and 23 others were injured due to the attack. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility.
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.
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. JI is an al-Qaeda-linked group seeking to unite Indonesia, Malaysia, and the southern Philippines under an Islamic state. 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 legislature in 2003 in this regard.
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. 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 travelled to Syria to fight for extremist groups trying to create an Islamic state there.
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