A4 Terror in Jakarta Jakarta  Globe Tuesday, July 21, 2009

In Brief

Condemnation: Organizations deny role of Islam in attacks

Muslim Lawyer: Don’t Blame JI

Dutch Couple Missing
Since Jakarta Blasts
Two Dutch citizens have
been missing since Friday’s
attacks on two Jakarta
hotels, the foreign ministry
said from the Hague on
Monday.
Surabaya. Suicide bombings at He declined to comment on Meanwhile, the Tarbiyah Is- linked Islam with terrorism did Abu Bakar Bashir, the former firmly forbids the killing of peo-
“A liaison officer of the
two Jakarta hotels on Friday had President Susilo Bambang Yud- lamiyah Organization also sought not understand the religion. chairman of the Indonesian Mu- ple for no reason, destroying
Dutch embassy in Jakarta is nothing to do with Jemaah Is- hoyono’s statement that the to distance religion from Friday’s Adnan Harahap, a member of jaeedeen Council (MMI) and a personal property and public fa-
in contact with the lamiyah, a member of the Muslim bombings may have been linked bombings. “Islam does not adopt the organization’s central board, Muslim cleric who in the past has cilities, much more so if such
Indonesian police with Lawyers Team said on Monday. to this month’s presidential elec- terror such as bombings,” said said most Muslims in Indonesia been linked to Jemaah Islamiyah acts claim lives and cause wide-
regard to the two missing “Please, don’t link the bomb- tion. “I am not willing to com- Basri Bermanda, chairman of the belonged to the “Ahlussunnah as its alleged spiritual leader, also spread fear.”
people,” ministry spokesman ing attacks to the Jemaah Islami- ment on that because I am not a group’s central executive board. wal Jamaah” group, which prac- called Friday’s bombers “enemies He called on the police and
Christoph Prommersberger yah organization,” Fahmi Bach- politician,” he said. He said terrorist acts violated tices the traditions of the Prophet of Islam.” mass media outlets to be cautious
said. He declined to give any mid said. Bachmid asked that everyone the tenets of Islam, but they could Muhammad. “Those who did the bombings in linking the bombings to an Is-
further details on the two. Bachmid, who served as a law- wait for the police to finish their be carried out by groups misus- “Even though most Indone- have caused Muslims to become lamic movement, g roup or
The Dutch daily yer for Amrozi, one of the three investigation into the attacks be- ing the label of Islam or by non- sians are Muslims, they do not scapegoats for terrorist acts,” he organization.
newspaper De Telegraaf men executed last year for the fore coming to any conclusions. Muslims who wanted to tarnish adopt extremist attitudes,” he said. “It is possible that certain
reported on Monday that the 2002 Bali bombings, said the po- “Let’s allow the police to work the image of Islam. said. Another Muslim organization, parties masterminded the bomb-
couple had been guests of the lice should not rush to link the first. Before the definite results of Basri also said that Islam was Adnan said that Islamic sym- Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia, was ings to create chaos and instabil-
bombings to an Islamic group or their investigation are known, all not identifiable with violence. bols were frequently abused by also at pains over the weekend to ity to achieve certain political
Ritz-Carlton Hotel while on
network. “No religion in the parties should refrain from spec- “Islam teaches peace and good- parties seeking to serve their own condemn the bombings. aims,” he said.
holiday.  AFP
world, Islam in particular, teach- ulating on the perpetrators of the ness,” he said. interests, in violation of the reli- HTI spokesman Muhammad
es violence,” he said. bombings,” he said. He added that anyone who gion’s teachings. Ismail Yusanto said, “Islam Antara
Medan Hotels Receive

Mackay’s
Bomb Threats
Since last Friday’s bombings

Body Flown
in Jakarta, three bomb
threats had been addressed

Back to NZ
to hotels in Medan, police
said on Monday.
The latest was received by
the Grand Swiss-Bel Hotel on
Jalan S Parman on Monday
morning.
For Funeral
Medan City Police Chief
Sr. Comr. Imam Margono Aditya Wikrama
said the hotel’s telephone & Dion Bisara
exchange operator received a
call from an unidentified A funeral for New Zealander
man who said he had planted Timothy Mackay, who died from
a bomb somewhere on the wounds he suffered in Friday’s
hotel’s premises. bombings in Jakarta, will be held
Police sent a number of in Wellington, the capital of his
officers, including a bomb native country, on Thursday, the
squad, to the hotel. A New Zealand Herald reported.
thorough search of the The body of the PT Holcim In-
premises failed to find any donesia chief executive officer
explosive device.  Antara was flown back to New Zealand
on Sunday night.
Holcim spokesperson Dedi
Australian Police Nugroho said Mackay’s body had
Not Investigating been kept at the Darmais funeral
home in West Jakarta over the
Australian police took weekend to allow company staff
central roles in investigations members and Mackay’s friends to
into earlier Indonesian pay their respects.
bombings but were not part Dedi said Holcim’s board of di-
of investigation into Friday’s rectors and commissioners held
Jakarta bombings, an an emergency meeting on Satur-
Indonesian police day night.
spokesman said on Monday Dedi, who was at Jakarta’s
“Only an Australian Medistra hospital when Mackay
liaison official is helping by died, said “doctors were trying to
providing postmortem data resuscitate him several times but
to be matched with evidence Tim finally passed away due to
Indonesian police have  his extensive injuries.”
He said the official cause of
found,” said Brig. Gen.
death had still not been declared
Sulistyo Ishak, deputy head as police had not yet released the
of the National Police official autopsy report.
headquarter’s public Dedi called Mackay a vision-
relations division. ary who was highly committed to
Three of the nine people the environment and to the com-
killed on Friday were pany’s corporate social responsi-
Australians.  Antara Relatives mourning Evert Mocodompis, a bombing victim. He is survived by his wife and two children, one of whom was born the day after the attack.  JG Photo/Yudhi Sukma WIjaya bility program. He said Mckay

‘Missing’ Bomb Victim Becomes First Buried

had insisted on an environmen-
tally sound approach for each
Hotel Numbers new plant built by Holcim, which
Expected to Drop is Indonesia’s third-largest ce-
The Indonesian Hotel and ment manufacturer.
Restaurant Association Irianto Oetomo, the director
expects a drop of 20 to 30 Camelia Pasandaran
Evert, a banquet manager at JW
Marriott Hotel, was one of nine A neighbor, officers were working to identify
bodies from the blasts on Friday.
body up to the neck,” Noriko said.
On Monday, Mocodompis be-
of Holcim’s corporate environ-
mental projects, said Mackay had

who is a
percent for hotel occupancies fatalities in double suicide bomb- “The police did not permit came the first of the victims of the continued environmental and so-
in the aftermath of the recent Evert Mocodompis left his Jakar- ings in South Jakarta on Friday. him to see the body,” Noriko Ku- attacks to be buried. He was laid to cial programs at proposed sites of

policeman,
terrorist attacks in Jakarta. ta house on Friday for his final Having worked at the US hotel las, one of his cousins, said. “So he rest at Tanah Kusir Public Ceme- new plants even after the projects
Carla Parengkuan, day of work before taking leave to chain for several years, Evert es- only gave information about how tery in Bintaro, South Jakarta. had been suspended due to the
executive director of the
association, said the impact
be with his wife for the birth of
their second child.
caped a bomb attack on the same
hotel in 2003, having switched identified his son looked. Later, one of his
neighbors, who is a policeman,
Having given birth less than
two days day earlier, his wife
global financial crisis. “He was
sincere and fatherly to his em-
would be felt most in Jakarta.
Meanwhile, the head of
His wife, Ratna, was not hap-
py to have her husband leave so
shifts with a friend that day. The
friend became one of 12 casual- Mocodompis went to the hospital and identi-
fied him. What made him easier
could not attend the funeral. His
mother was taken to the hospital
ployes,” he added. “It was a great
loss and truly we’ll miss him.”
the Jakarta Association of close to her due date but he prom- ties of the 2003 car bomb. to identify was that he still had after fainting during the service.
ised her that he would return by After news of the blasts at the his name badge on his uniform.” Victor Mocodompis said dur-
Commercial Malls, Andreas
Kartawinata, said that malls
across the city had seen a
lunchtime.
He never got to keep that
Marriott and neighboring Ritz-
Carlton hotels reached the family,
among the survivors at three Ja-
karta hospitals.
When the coffin arrived at the
family home on Sunday evening,
ing the funeral that he and his
family have already forgiven the Known
significant decrease in the
promise, nor to see the healthy
son his wife gave birth to on Sat-
Evert’s father, Victor Mocodom-
pis, frantically tried to contact his
Failing to get any news or clues
about his son’s whereabouts he
only the face was visible through
a glass cover.
murderer.
Quoting from the Bible, he said Victims
number of visitors since the urday, the same day his elderly fa- son by telephone but no avail so then went to the police hospital in “The corpse’s condition was so that hatred should not be
bombings.  Antara ther finally ascertained that went himself to search for him Kramatjati, East Jakarta, where bad that the police covered his harbored. Bombing victims known to
have left Indonesia for

Torrent of Online Details in Aftermath

treatment overseas included
six transferred from Jakarta’s
MMC Hospital to Singapore.

Of Blasts Underscores Value of Internet They are Americans Cindy

Edward, Gary Ford, Kevin
Moore and Simond Petvral
Lowes; Dutchman Van Wesel;
ings of the most visited websites was an expression of defiance. and Australian Scott Mirilles.
Ashlee Betteridge between Friday morning and “It means we’re not afraid, it As of late Monday, 12 victims
Monday afternoon, according to means we’re not going down, no were still being treated at 3
Moments after bombs ripped Web tracker Alexa.com, while matter what [the terrorists] throw hospitals.
through the Ritz-Carlton and Detik.com rose by more than 200 at us,” Waraney said. “It’s not the
Marriott hotels on Friday, Indo- spots. On Friday, “Ritz-Carlton” kind of message you could send MMC Hospital:
nesians turned to the Internet to was the 57th most used search six years ago.” 1.  Andrew Stuart Cobhan
trade information and express term worldwide on Google. Twitter users also marked 2.  Giovani Suhardi
their outrage. More than 2,200 blog postings their messages with the tag “in- 3.  I Gusti Agung Ray
Microblogging site Twitter about Jakarta were made on Fri- donesia unite,” which rose to be- 4.  Marico Asmarawati
was one of the first places where day, more than triple the usual come the most popular tag on the 5.  Oki Utomo
breaking news of the bombings number, according to blog statis- site globally on Friday, Saturday 6.  Yurike Martiningrum
was reported, as people on the tics site Technorati. and Sunday nights. 7.  Yusuf Purnomo.
scene sent updates from their mo- Since 2003, the last time a ter- Trend monitoring site Twist
bile phones. Indonesian Web user rorist bombing hit Jakarta, the said that at its peak, the tag ac- Jakarta Hospital:
Fajar Nugraha found online net- use of the Internet and social net- counted for 1.13 percent of world- 1.  Deni Purwanto
working was the best way to get working sites such as Facebook, wide Twitter traffic on Saturday 2.  Andi Tirta Marsadi
news about the blasts. Twitter, MySpace, Friendster and evening. 3.  Didik Ahmad Taufik
“This tragedy is really a big YouTube has grown exponential- An “IndonesiaUnite!” Face- 4.  Bambang Triyanto
blow, again, for our country,” he ly. Facebook alone now boasts 2.8 book fan page and Web site fol-
said. “But this time the Internet million users in its Indonesia net- lowed. The Facebook page at- Pertamina Hospital:
has played such an im- work and is the most tracted more than 11,800 fans by 1. Dadang Hidayat 
portant role, more than The internet’s popular site in the Monday afternoon and T-shirts
in 2003 when there was role in country, according to are now available for sale. Of the nine people killed in
no Facebook or Twit- informing Alexa.com. On YouTube, local rap musi- Friday’s attacks, five have been
ter, to inform the Indo- people is more Social net works cian and social-network user officially identified by police:
nesian people and to important now also acted as a unifying Pandji Pragiwaksono released a
tell the rest of the world than in ’03 when force for Indonesian music video Friday called “Kami 1. Evert Mokodompis
about what’s really there wasn’t nationalism in the face Tidak Takut” (“We Are Not (Indonesia)
happening here and Facebook or of the attack. On Twit- Afraid”), which was widely circu- 2. Timothy D. Mackay (New
how Indonesians are Twitter ter, users added a red- lated around the Internet. Zealand)
reacting.” Fajar Nugraha after and-white overlay to Some bloggers and Twitter us- 3. Craig Andrew Senger
News sites also re- the Jakarta blasts their profile pictures ers also proposed on Monday to (Australia)
ceived a huge spike in to symbolize the Indo- use the power of social network- 4. Garth Rupert John McEvoy
traffic over the week- nesian flag. ing as a way to point out lax secu- (Australia)
e n d . K om p a s . c om For Ja k a r t a n rity measures at shopping malls 5. Nathan John Verity
jumped more than 300 Wa ra ney Raw ung, and hotels in the city, and push (Australia)
places in global rank- changing his photo for improvements.