Terrorist attack on the Australian embassy in Jakarta

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The terrorist attack on the Australian embassy in Jakarta occurred on September 9, 2004 .

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A car bomb exploded in front of the embassy site in the Kuningan District , in the south of the Indonesian capital, around 10:30 a.m. local time (03:30 UTC ), killing several people, including the suicide bomber, and injuring around 150 people, some seriously. The Chinese embassy was also damaged. The shattered window panes in the surrounding buildings injured people with splinters.

At first it was unclear how many people had lost their lives. Indonesian authorities initially spoke of nine, according to Australian figures, eleven people died. Among the victims were a member of the security staff, Anton Sujarwo, 23, four Indonesian police officers who were in front of the embassy , the 34-year-old gardener Suryadi from the embassy, ​​two workers from the embassy, ​​a pedestrian and a civilian applying for a visa wanted to.

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Australian Prime Minister John Howard expressed his dismay at the incident. His Foreign Secretary Alexander Downer said: " This attack was directed against the Australian Embassy, ​​there is no doubt about it ".

It is unclear whether the incident was intended to affect the second round of the presidential elections in Indonesia on September 20, 2004 or the Australian elections on October 9.

Australian Foreign Minister Downer accused Indonesian authorities of receiving a text message by SMS about 45 minutes before the explosion warning of the detonation , which the Jakarta government failed to confirm.

This was the third attack that affected Australian targets in Indonesia after the bomb attack on two discos in Bali and the bomb attack on the JW Marriott Hotel on August 5, 2003 in Jakarta, which left several dead.

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The radical Islamist association Jemaah Islamiyah is blamed for the attack.

Indonesian police later released a picture of a white van suspected of being bombed.

Four men were arrested on November 5th in Bogor , west of Java Island . In March 2005, a court sentenced Indonesian Irun Hidayat to three years in prison for harboring the two main suspects. One of the main perpetrators of the attack in Jakarta in September 2005, Iwan Darmawan alias Rois, was sentenced to death. Darmawan appealed. The two main Malaysian suspects Azahari bin Husin and Noordin Mohammed Top were found free after the crime. In November 2005, the police surrounded Azahari bin Husin's house on the island of Java, who then blew himself up.

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Coordinates: 6 ° 13 ′ 5.4 ″  S , 106 ° 49 ′ 52 ″  E