[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Indonesia tense after 6 die in blast

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Indonesia tense after 6 die in blast
By Tom McCawley, Jakarta

January 3, 2006
A BOMB attack on a Christian marketplace in a strife-torn Indonesian province
killed six and wounded 45 on New Year's Eve, highlighting the security
challenges facing President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
The bomb, packed with nails and shrapnel, blasted through a pork market about
7am in the town of Palu, capital of volatile Central Sulawesi province, where
an estimated 2000 people have died in clashes between Christians and Muslims
since 1998.

Rais Adam, a police spokesman for the province, said that a man was being
questioned.

"A man has been detained. We are interrogating him," he said from Palu, 1650
kilometres north-east of Jakarta.

The man was detained on Saturday near the site of the blast but had not been
named as a suspect, he said.

The attack came despite heightened police security over the holiday period
after intelligence agencies warned of possible terrorist attacks. About 19,000
police and thousands of Muslim guards were deployed across Indonesia for the
10-day Operation Candle.

"Suddenly there was a flash and a loud noise - we were all thrown to the
ground," said one injured pork seller from hospital.

Syamsir Siregar, chief of the national intelligence agency, warned last week
that the security threat extended to Dr Yudhoyono and foreign officials,
including Australian diplomats.

"They target foreigners," he said, warning that US, Australian and British
citizens were at the highest risk because of their governments' involvement in
the war in Iraq.

Several Western countries have urged citizens to avoid travelling to Indonesia
due to fears that foreigners could be targeted by Islamist extremists.

The Palu blast comes after a year that has seen several tests of Indonesia's
religious tolerance.

It has 194 million Muslims (88 per cent of its people), the world's largest
Islamic population. Roughly 8 per cent of the population are Christians.

Even since a December 2001 peace accord, nearby Poso has been a flashpoint of
bloody violence between Muslim and Christian groups.

Indonesia has seen a campaign of bombings in recent years, mostly blamed on
Jemaah Islamiah, a group with links to the international terrorist organisation
al-Qaeda. The most deadly was the October 2002 Bali bombing in which 202 people
died, 89 of them Australians.

Mr Siregar said Islamist militants wanted to kidnap businessmen, politicians
and foreigners to finance terrorist activities and replace waning funds. With

REUTERS

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