Bomb hoax scatters Manggala Wanabakti

JAKARTA: Tenants of the Manggala Wanabakti office complex in Central Jakarta hurriedly exited the buildings after a bomb threat was received at about 11 a.m. on Thursday.

Neither the complex management nor the police revealed how they message was conveyed, and declared later that no bomb had been found.

Besides housing a forestry museum, the Manggala Wanabakti complex consists of a 16-story office building, which is the head office of the Ministry of Forestry, a 10-story building leased to private sector forestry firms, and another 14-story building occupied by state enterprises and foreign firms operating in the forestry sector. -- Antara