The Jakarta Post, 2/3/2003 8:32:23 AM
Blast hits the National Police headquarters
JAKARTA (JP): An explosion rocked a building inside theNational Police headquarters
complex in Jakarta early on Monday, El Shinta radio reported.
A man, identified as Iman Tarmidi, injured by the blast. No casualties were reported.
The explosion damaged several windows, the door and the ceiling as well as two cars
in the parking lot.
The Bhayangkari building is a function hall which usually deployed to host meetings
or wedding celebrations. On Sunday evening, a tenang used the building to host a
wedding ceremony.
Police immediately sealed off the venue.
National Police spokesman Brig. Gen. Edward Aritonang confirmed that the blast was
caused by a bomb, which was planted before the entrance door of the building.
"The low-explosive bomb was put in a black suitcase. But we have yet found out the
detail of the bomb," he told reporters in a press conference held one and half hour
after the blast.
Edward denied that police failed to maintain its security as "the building is out of our
security control because it is used for public events".
He said that some officers have reported the suit to the bomb squad, but the bomb
blew before they arrived.
The case will be handled directly by the National Police, instead of the Jakarta Police.
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