Jakarta Attacks: Convicted Militant Named As Attacker

"Police raided several locations in the early hours of Friday morning" and made arrests in the Jakarta suburb of Depok, NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports.

Police have said they suspect he is now in Raqqah in Syria's south.

Authorities said several accounts had been found on social networking website Facebook expressing support for Thursday's attack in Jakarta's commercial district, which killed seven people including five militants, and injured around 30 others.

The country had been on edge for weeks over the threat posed by Islamist militants, and counter-terrorism police had rounded up about 20 people with suspected links to Islamic State. State police say they suspect an Indonesian man allied with ISIS planned the attack from Syria.

The PNP raised the alert level status of its forces nationwide on Thursday, immediately after the deadly bombings in Jakarta, described by Indonesian President Joko Widodo as a terror attack.

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The funds were driven through Bahrun Naim, an Indonesian militant arrested in 2011 for illegal arms possession, the police chief told reporters.

"I am not afraid of terrorists because life is in Allah's hands, and today is Friday so, God willing, nothing bad will happen", said Toto Suhadi, 52, a gardener watering plants near the attack site. On Friday evening, police searched the home of another of the dead bombers whom they identified as Muhammad Ali.

ISIL has claimed the attack that rocked the Indonesian capital.

Experts say that while it's hard to know how much of a foothold IS has established in Indonesia, the attack achieved two things: It showed that domestic militant groups are still capable of violence despite being fragmented by the government's counterterrorism campaign; and gave at least the impression that IS now has the ability to launch attacks in Southeast Asia.

Still, police believe that an Indonesian IS fighter, Bahrum Naim, who is in Syria may have inspired and instigated the Jakarta attack.

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The attackers were killed subsequently, either by their suicide vests or by police.

Police spokesman Anton Charliyan said another attacker, whose name was not revealed, was also a former terrorism convict.

Indonesians were shaken but refusing to be cowed a day aft...

In the course of six years without a major terrorist attack, Indonesia had grown more and more confident that it had stayed on top of any threat from Islamic militants. The group claimed responsibility for the blasts in online statements, but analysts said the attack caused significantly less damage than other coordinated attacks attributed to the group, such as the November rampage in Paris that left 130 dead. "Indonesia is a strong state".

"A large screen atop the building containing the Starbucks displayed messages that said "#prayforjakarta" and "Indonesia Unite".

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