A police officer gives a hand signal to a squad mate as they search a building near the site of an explosion in Jakarta, Indonesia Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016.
The police chief said six grenades and one big bomb failed to be exploded in Thursday's attack. An additional 20 people were wounded.
It recalled comparisons of reactions to recent Paris attacks and wrote: "Like Lebanese citizens after the attacks in their capital, many Indonesians today asked themselves, 'Hey Facebook, where's our safety check?'" His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and his Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al- Hamad Al-Sabah sent similar cable of condolences to the Indonesian President.
A hotline has also been established for the Vietnamese people to contact in case of emergency, according to Ambassador Tuan.
In the Paris attacks, some eight armed men killed 130 people when they struck at various public venues on November 13.
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An audacious bomb and gun attack on Westerners in the heart of Indonesia's capital was funded by ISIS, police said Friday after arresting three men on suspicion of links to the plot, seizing a militant flag from the home of one suspect.
But when Thursday's assault in central Jakarta was over, the death toll was much lower.
UNEP chief Achim Steiner said the organization "condemns in the strongest possible terms these senseless acts of terror". Attackers set off explosions at a Starbucks cafe in a bustling shopping... "[Thursday's] attack was a wake-up call", says Ansyaad Mbai, the former head of Indonesia's counterterrorism force.
Haiti added that while Naim is believed to be the mastermind of the attacks, police suspect a broader support apparatus in the country. Black armoured cars screeched to a halt in front of the Starbucks and sniper teams were deployed around the neighbourhood as helicopters buzzed overhead.
He was apprehended by Indonesian authorities in 2010 for illegal possession of ammunition and was brought to justice, the police chief said.
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Islamist militants from those three countries have a record of working together and several Malaysians are known to have carried out suicide attacks in the Middle East.
Australian Attorney-General George Brandis, who was in Jakarta recently to bolster security coordination, told the Australian newspaper he had "no doubt" Islamic State was seeking to establish a "distant caliphate" in Indonesia.
The federal government updated its travel advisory for Jakarta in the aftermath of the attacks, advising Canadians to remain vigilant, follow the advice of local authorities and avoid the city's downtown area.
Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population, the vast majority of whom practise a moderate form of Islam.
Instead of highlighting that our region has Starbucks and McDonald's stores and its people do not live in trees, I wish the worldwide media emphasized that the world's largest Muslim country just suffered an abominable assault that may have been inspired by the Islamic State (IS) group.
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The Islamic State group "is very sophisticated and professional in their militancy, in every sense of the word", said Liow.
On Tuesday, a Syrian suicide bomber killed 10 German tourists in Istanbul.
Speaking to reporters at the same hotel in London, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry echoed him.
Earlier, Bahrum Naim, an Indonesian believed to be fighting with IS in Syria, was named as the suspected co-ordinator. "This is an indication that he has been learning from the Paris attacks and he has studied the strategy", he said.
Tweets from the account of Jeremy Douglas, regional representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, described a bomb and "serious" exchanges of gunfire on the street outside his Jakarta office. "But it is a possibility".
Source: Three suspects arrested in Jakarta terror attacks
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