Indonesian President Vows to Arrest Hotel Bombers

Friday, 17 July 2009 | 2:39 PM

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com-Indonesia’s president says authorities will arrest the terrorists responsible for twin attacks on luxury hotels that killed 9 and wounded 50.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono spoke Friday after powerful blasts at the J.W. Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta shook the country. It has been almost four years since a major attack in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation.

He said, “This action was carried out by a terrorist group, though it is too early to say if it is the same network” responsible for a series of bombings in Indonesia in recent years,
Jemaah Islamiyah. “Those who carried out this attack and those who planned it will be arrested and tried according to the law,” he said in a televised address to the nation.