Three bombs found at two separate sites in capital

JAKARTA (JP): Three bombs were found in separate locations here on Monday, alarming city residents who have yet to get over last Thursday's bombing in South Jakarta, which claimed at least three lives.

The police said the first two bombs were found on a ship, at Sunda Kelapa Port in North Jakarta, while the other one, a suitcase bomb, was found at the Gedung Wanita bus-stop on Jl. Cik Ditiro in Menteng, Central Jakarta,

"Two homemade bombs, and a rifle were found on board the KM Layur, which arrived from Riau at the Sunda Kelapa Port, at 10 a.m. on Monday. The ship was heading for Ambon," Sunda Kelapa Police Chief. Brig. Dwi said.

Five people on board the ship, including the captain, are currently being interrogated by Sunda Kelapa Police, Dwi said.

Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Anton Bachrul Alam said a man had found a suitcase at the bus-stop and immediately reported it to the police, since he found it very suspicious.

"Several people in the area have said that they had seen the suitcase for a few days lying there, unopened," Anton told reporters.

Separately, city police Chief Insp. Gen. Sofjan Yacob said on Monday, in relation to Thursday's bombing in Guntur, that the police would summon the coordinator of the Aceh Referendum Information Center (Sira) Faisal Saifuddin, and Solidarity for Peace in East Timor (Solidamor) coordinator Bonar Tigor Naipospos.

Meanwhile, National Police sources have stated that the incident's primary suspect, Taufik Abdullah, had received specific instructions from Gafi, another suspect at large, at least five days before the bombing.

"The instruction was, to bomb several places in Jakarta, should soldiers be sent to Aceh. This is what Taufik has told city police detectives," a top National Police official who requested anonymity told The Jakarta Post.

"One of the men who died in the blast, Kardu alias Du alias Abu, was a bomb-assembler who had been called by Gafi, the Sira activist, to come to Jakarta, to make bombs. Du, however, died in the blast." (ylt)