'RRI' receives bomb threat

JAKARTA (JP): Scores of officers from the National Police's bomb squad were hastily deployed to state Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI) in Central Jakarta following a bomb threat at the eight-story building on Monday evening.

According to Central Jakarta Police's chief of detectives Maj. Budiono Sandi, the officers searched the building on Jl. Medan Merdeka Barat for hours, finding a strange object in a room of the building.

Budiono, however, refused to give details about the object, but security sources said that it was a square box wrapped in a white plastic sheet.

Ibrahim, an RRI employee, said that the object was found by the bomb squad in Studio B, a meeting room located on the second floor.

"The phone call relaying the threat was received by broadcaster Aden Berlian at about 6 p.m.," Ibrahim told The Jakarta Post last night.

No damage occurred and the exact nature of the object removed from the building remains unknown. The object is being examined at the bomb squad's headquarters in Kelapa Dua, south of here.

A number of soldiers have been stationed at the building for weeks. (emf/bsr)