Al Arabiya News, 14 January 2016 – A news agency allied to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) said the militant group was behind the deadly attacks in Jakarta earlier on Thursday.
At least seven people — five attackers and two civilians — were killed as militants launched suicide, shooting and bombing attacks that tore through a Starbucks cafe and shook an embassy district in the Muslim-majority nation.

 Indonesian president Joko Widodo visits the site of a bomb blast in Jakarta
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Reuters photographer Darren Whiteside, who was near the Starbucks when the blast went off, said debris was strewn about the street 30-40 meters in front of the café and he saw a police officer’s body being dragged away.
“ISIS fighters carried out an armed attack this morning targeting foreign nationals and the security forces charged with protecting them in the Indonesian capital,” Aamaaq news agency said on its Telegram channel.

Police declared the attack over after several hours, and said no more assailants were on the loose.

Indonesian Army guarding near the site where an attack occurred in Jakarta

3 suicide bombers, 2 assailants

Anton Charliyan, national police spokesman, said three suicide bombers and two other assailants armed with pistols carried out the attacks, which he said began with a suspected suicide bombing at a Starbucks opposite a major shopping mall.
As explosion occurred, two armed assailants were waiting outside.
Two men then took hostages at the Starbucks, an Algerian and a Dutch citizen, and shot the Dutch national dead.
An Indonesian tried to help but was shot dead, he said. The Algerian was wounded.

 A foreign national lies wounded surrounded by security and emergency workers

After hearing a blast, police officers headed to the area and killed the attackers.
“Soon afterwards, two men riding a motorbike dropped their motorbikes, ran into a police post and blew themselves up,” he said.
Four police officers were inside and are now in critical condition, Charliyan said.
As well as the suicide bombers, four explosive devices were detonated during the attacks — one in Starbucks, after the suicide bombing, and during a shootout between police and the assailants.

 People carry an injured police officer near the site of explosion

“There are two more bombs that we suspected they wanted to blow up, two big ones,” he said.
MetroTV said, quoting a police official also said a Canadian man was among those killed in the attacks.

ISIS cryptic warning

The attack comes after ISIS threats to put the country in its “spotlight.”
Before the ISIS news agency affiliate claiming the attack, the Jakarta police chief said that the group is “definitely” behind the attack.
“ISIS is behind this attack definitely,” Tito Karnavian told reporters.

Karnavian said Indonesian ISIS fighter Bahrun Naim, who is believed to be in Syria, was “planning this for a while. He is behind this attack.”
Charliyan earlier told AFP that “there is a strong suspicion that this is an ISIS-linked group in Indonesia.”
“From what we see today, this group is following the pattern of the Paris attacks.”
ISIS claimed a series of coordinated shootings and suicide bombings in Paris in November that left 130 people dead.
Charliyan said that the group had earlier issued a cryptic warning, saying there would be a “concert in Indonesia,” which had prompted police to beef up security ahead of New Year celebrations.
Police foiled a series of terror plots in December, including some believed linked to ISIS.
Hundreds of Indonesians are feared to have travelled abroad to join the self-proclaimed caliphate of the ISIS, and scores have since returned, raising concerns they could launch attacks on home soil.

Extracted from different reports by agencies