Kampung Melayu Suicide Bombing
Two suspected suicide bombers who killed three policemen and injured 10 other people near a bus station in Kampung Melayu, East Jakarta on Wednesday night, acted in what appears to be a global terrorist attack.
The police linked the blasts to recent attacks in Manchester, United Kingdom, and Marawi in the Philippines. It's part of a global attack that connects several groups in several places. First the explosions in Manchester during the Ariana Grande show, then in the Philippines, where Islamic State-linked groups carried out an attack in Marawi.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the suspected suicide bomber of Wednesday's attack in East Jakarta had links to an Islamic State sympathizer who detonated a low-explosive bomb in Bandung, West Java in February.