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Third Book Bomb Was Sent to Youth Organization Leader
Jakarta Globe | March 16, 2011

A police officer is seen attempting to defuse a bomb in Utan Kayu a split second before he accidentally activated the trigger. A similar bomb was also sent to Yapto Suryosumarno, chairman of the Pemuda Pancasila (Pancasila Youth) organization, on Tuesday. A police officer is seen attempting to defuse a bomb in Utan Kayu a split second before he accidentally activated the trigger. A similar bomb was also sent to Yapto Suryosumarno, chairman of the Pemuda Pancasila (Pancasila Youth) organization, on Tuesday.
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DrDez
12:55pm Mar 16, 2011

peter - there are a lot of similarities to many of the terrible ethnic/religious cleansing we have witnessed in the modern era - Nazi, Tito, Sudan, Pakistan, the last being particularly relevant. History does have a knack of repeating and we are on a slippery slope towards state sponsored mayhem it seems


Ronen
12:36pm Mar 16, 2011

Well. It seems that after attacking Christians and Ahmadiyya followers, - some Indonesian Muslims feel it's time to attack Muslims who ACTIVELY oppose religious extremism (There are not so many ACTIVE ones). So they tried to attack today:

1. Ulil Abshar Abdall, the co-founder of the Liberal Islamic Network.

2. Gories Mere, a former key officer of the National Police’s elite counterterrorism unit, Densus 88.

3. Yapto Suryosumarno, an infamous pro-Suharto moderate Muslim politician who is technically a Jew by the Jewish law...

Who is next?

What else should happen before the DORMANT Indonesian moderate Muslim majority will ACTIVELY act to stop the extremist violence?

peterbdeyoung
12:01pm Mar 16, 2011

If the Indonesian leadership continues to allow FPI to deliver uncontrolled mob violence and brutality there's going to be more of the same. If Islamic radicals "cleanse" areas and impose their control what will be the reaction of Budhists, Christians and Hindus in other areas where they are the majority? There are definite parallels between the developing situation of FPI control with that of Yugoslavia after the death of Tito and that's what the philosophy of Pancasila tried to prevent.

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A bomb package was sent to Yapto Suryosumarno, chairman of the Pemuda Pancasila [Pancasila Youth] organization, on Tuesday night, the third such bomb package reported since yesterday. 

Yapto reported the bomb to the Jakarta Police at 9 p.m. The bomb was later defused by the police bomb squad.

 It is still unknown whether this bomb was directly connected to the two other bomb packages discovered in Jakarta yesterday.

The first, sent to Liberal Islamic Network co-founder Ulil Abshar Abdalla in Utan Kayu, East Jakarta, aroused suspicion and was reported to the police. But police officers attempting to defuse the bomb accidentally detonated it, causing one officer to lose his hand. Two other officers escaped serious injury.

The second package was addressed to Comr. Gen. Gories Mere, a former key officer of the National Police’s elite counterterrorism unit, Densus 88.

The third bomb, sent to Yapto, was hidden inside a book titled “Masih Adakah Pancasila?” (“Does Pancasila Still Exist?”), Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Baharuddin Jafar said. The books sent to Ulil and Gories were titled “They Deserved to Be Killed: Because of Their Sins to Islam and Muslims.”

Jakarta Police Chief Insp. Gen. Sutarman said the bomb packages targeted people who love reading.

“This is not a new modus operandi because, in the past, there were bombs hidden inside parcels for Idul Fitri and Christmas,” Sutarman said on Wednesday.

“They can tell that their targets love reading, hence books were sent. When targets open the book, the bomb will explode,” he said.

According to Sutarman, the bombs were all part of a well-planned terror attack.

“The terrorists must have studied their targets first and we will reveal who they are through our investigation,” he said.