Attackers struck in the middle of the day Thursday, in the middle of a busy central Jakarta commercial hub -- killing at least two, wounding 19 and raising alarms about terrorism once more, this time in the world's most populous Muslim country.
ISIS
claimed responsibility for the attack in an official statement posted
online by the terror organization, which was translated by the
monitoring group Flashpoint and verified by CNN.
Jakarta
police chief Tito Karnavian likewise blamed the Syria-based group and
singled out a militant named Bahrun Naim, who he said plotted the attack
to assert himself among various figures competing to lead ISIS in
Southeast Asia. Police spokesman Anton Charliyan said Naim is in Syria
but sent money back home to Indonesia to finance the attack.
One foreign national and one Indonesian make up the dead, authorities said. Charliyan said 24 people, including at least one more foreigner, were wounded.
The Jakarta carnage, in an area frequented by foreigners, came 6,000 miles from and two days after ISIS boasted about a suicide bombing in the heart of Istanbul. That attack in Sultanahmet Square, between the popular Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque tourist attractions, killed 10 German visitors.
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