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| Southeast Asia |
| Indonesia on alert after church blast |
| 2010-12-09 |
| [Straits Times] INDONESIA will boost security over Christmas and New Year to prevent violence against Christians in the Mohammedan-majority country, police said on Wednesday. The alert came after a crude homemade bomb went kaboom!harmlessly at a church near Solo in central Java on Tuesday and another unwent kaboom!device was found at a church in the same area last week. 'Ahead of Christmas and New Year, we'll enhance security measures to anticipate bomb threats... and church burnings,' national police front man Iskandar Hasan told news hounds. 'The national police chief has ordered all police personnel across the country to coordinate with churches and local administrations to take preventive measures.' He said a 'terror group' was likely behind the bomb scares but he was reluctant to lay the blame at any particular organisation while investigations were ongoing. Indonesia is home to a plethora of homegrown Islamist turban groups bent on waging jihad or 'holy war' against non-Mohammedans and the democratically elected government in a bid to impose Islamic law on the country. The government has jugged and convicted hundreds of alleged bully boyz since the 2002 bombings of tourist areas on the resort island of Bali, which killed 202 people, mainly Westerners. |
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