It is all small arms.
January 14, 2016
By AP
A Canadian was among those killed (click here) in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta Thursday when gunmen launched a series of co-ordinated attacks in a bustling downtown shopping area.
January 14, 2016
By AP
A Canadian was among those killed (click here) in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta Thursday when gunmen launched a series of co-ordinated attacks in a bustling downtown shopping area.
Jakarta police chief Maj.-Gen. Tito Karnavian told a news conference that the first attack — a suicide bombing — happened at a Starbucks, causing customers to run outside, where two gunmen opened fire, killing the Canadian and wounding an Indonesian bystander.
At about the same time, two other suicide bombers attacked a nearby traffic police booth, killing themselves and an Indonesian man. Moments later, Karnavian said, a group of policemen was attacked by two remaining gunmen, using homemade bombs. This led to a 15-minute gunfight, he said.
All five gunmen were killed and 20 people were wounded in the attacks....
Indonesia is a majority Muslim country.
Muslim 87.2%
Christian 7%
Roman Catholic 2.9 %
Hindu 1.7%
other 0.9% (includes Buddhist and Confucian), unspecified 0.4% (2010 est.)
This is the demographics of Jakarta. Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia.
JAKARTA (capital) 9.769 million
The point is the attackers are rejected in their violence. I think that is important to realize. Daesh is a group of criminals. That is all they are. They are not people to be trusted with the worship of Allah.
Many of these people are impoverished. We know for a fact the impoverished often are the place that breeds hate and violence. These people are rejecting all that.
There has been problems in Indonesia. Historically, Indonesia has seen violence and clashes between Christian and Muslim. But, there is less of it in modern times.
Ethnic violence (click here) has more or less seized to be since 2002 after regional violence in Jakarta, Medan (Sumatra), Kalimantan, Poso (Sulawesi) and the Moluccas caused many casualties between the years 1996 and 2002. It is, however, not correct to mark the above cases as 'ethnic violence' only. Violence purely because of ethnic differences seems highly unlikely as in each case other aspects play an influential role. For example, violence against the Chinese Indonesians, which emerged around the time of Suharto's resignation, has a lot to do with the country's economic circumstances. The Chinese Indonesians had always been resented because they own a relative big portion of Indonesia's business cake, despite forming just a tiny minority in Indonesia's population (and in fact rich Chinese Indonesians are only a small proportion of the total number of Chinese Indonesians in Indonesia). In times of political and economic turmoil it is not hard to instigate anti-Chinese feelings that results in violence.....
Indonesia enforces it's rule of law without question. Break the law and suffer the consequences. I think that puts power where it belongs in this long chain or islands, in the hands of the government. In past uprisings there were large numbers of dead. That simply doesn't happen in Indonesia in modern times.
Nearly absent from Indonesia is illiteracy. Indonesia has successfully educated 95 percent or more of it's people to read and write. Extremists that use violence to challenge domestic peace simply don't have an audience,
