INDONESIA: JAKARTA IS QUIET BUT TENSE AS ARMOURED PERONNEL CARRIERS ASSEMBLED IN THE CAPITAL AS PART OF HEIGHTENED SECURITY AFTER U.S.-LED STRIKES AGAINST AFGHANISTAN

Record ID: 584750

  • Title: INDONESIA: JAKARTA IS QUIET BUT TENSE AS ARMOURED PERONNEL CARRIERS ASSEMBLED IN THE CAPITAL AS PART OF HEIGHTENED SECURITY AFTER U.S.-LED STRIKES AGAINST AFGHANISTAN
  • Date: 8th October 2001
  • Summary: (W3) JAKARTA, INDONESIA (OCTOBER 8, 2001) (REUTERS) 1. SLV UNITED STATES EMBASSY BEHIND BARBED WIRE 0.05 2. CU U.S. FLAG 0.13 3. SLV/SV/CU POLICE AND SECURITY GUARDS CLOSING THE STREET (4 SHOTS) 0.41 4. SV POLICE PATROLING IN FRONT OF EMBASSY 0.45 5. LAS OF BARBED WIRE IN FRONT OF US EMBASSY 0.51 6. PAN NEWSPAPER STANDS 1.00 7. SV OF NEWSPAPER STAND 1.05 8. CU OF NEWSPAPER HEADLINES, NEWSPAPER WITH PHOTOGRAPH OF OSAMA BIN LADEN 1.14 9. SV OF PEOPLE AT NEWSPAPER STAND 1.21 10. CU OF MAN READING NEWSPAPER 1.31 11. MCU (Bahasa Indonesia) DENNY, STUDENT SAYING: "I think it is better if there is a dialogue between America and Afghanistan to solve this problem. I think it is better". 1.49 12. SV NEWSPAPER STAND 1.57 13. MCU (Bahasa Indonesia) TEDDY, SAYING "If the attack is aimed at the Afghan people, I do not agree with that. But if the attack is aimed at terrorists, I absolutely agree with that" 2.11 (U2) JAKARTA, INDONESIA (OCTOBER 8, 2001) (REUTERS) 14. SLV UNITED NATIONS OFFICE 2.19 15. CU U.N. FLAG 2.23 16. SLV SECURITY GUARDS CHECKING PEOPLE COMING IN TO U.N. BUILDING 2.29 17. SV SECURITY GUARD CLOSING GATES 2.33 18. LAS INDONESIAN FLAG 2.39 19. MCU (English) JAMES KELLY, AUSTRALIAN SAYING: "So far I have been here since late last week. I came here to teach in one local university, but was supposed to teach again tonight. However because of the situation, I decided early just in case, anything might happen in this environment". 2.58 20. SLV/SV VARIOUS OF TROOPS TRAINING (4 SHOTS) 3.22 21. SLV/SV/CU TROOPS AND APCS PARKED IN MERDEKA SQUARE (7 SHOTS) 4.03 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 23rd October 2001 13:00
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  • Location: JAKARTA, INDONESIA
  • Country: Indonesia
  • Reuters ID: LVA31FW167WCUJYS2AULLM977UMP
  • Story Text: Jakarta was quiet but tense as forty armoured
    personnel carriers, backed by scores of troops, assembled in
    Jakarta's Merdeka (Freedom) Square as part of heightened
    security in the capital after U.S.-led strikes against
    Afghanistan.

    A radical Muslim group had threatened to hunt foreigners
    and destroy foreign targets in retaliation for the strikes.



    Jakarta was quiet early on Monday (October 8), with
    shops and businesses opening as usual.

    International schools were closed however, and the U.S.,
    Australian and British embassies, warning of anti-Western
    action, urged their nationals to stay inside. There are tens
    of thousands of Americans, Australians, Britons and citizens
    from other U.S. allies in Indonesia.

    James Kelly, an Australian in Jakarta said "So far I have
    been here since late last week. I came here to teach in one
    local university. Supposed to teach again tonight but because
    of the situation decided to leave early just in case -
    anything might happen in this environment."
    Several cities in Indonesia have been racked by growing
    anti-U.S. sentiment after Washington focused the first phase
    of its war on Islamic Afghanistan, where Saudi-born militant
    Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind of the September 11
    suicide hijack attacks on the United States, is sheltering.

    Some 90 percent of Indonesia's 210 million people are
    Muslim.

    Although Indonesian Islam is generally moderate, some
    hardline groups have hunted Americans to expel them and warned
    other foreigners to leave. Hundreds of men have signed up to
    help defend Afghanistan in a holy war.

    Key security ministers met through the night ahead of a
    joint meeting due later on Monday to consider Jakarta's
    response to the U.S. strikes and how to deal with threats at
    home. Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri has
    previously expressed Jakarta's support for Washington's war on
    terrorism.

    One small Islamic group has urged millions of Muslims in
    the world's largest Muslim nation to lay siege to the U.S.

    embassy in Jakarta on Monday (October 8) at 5:00 p.m. (1000 GMT).


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