INDONESIA: SECURITY TIGHT FOR CHRISTMAS SERVICES AFTER PRIEST ATTACKED WITH MACHETE IN SULAWESI REGION

Record ID: 648091

  • Title: INDONESIA: SECURITY TIGHT FOR CHRISTMAS SERVICES AFTER PRIEST ATTACKED WITH MACHETE IN SULAWESI REGION
  • Date: 24th December 2004
  • Summary: (W5) JAKARTA, INDONESIA (DECEMBER 24, 2004)(REUTERS -ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE OF EXTERIOR OF CATHEDRAL 0.06 2. WIDE OF POLICE PERSONNEL ON GUARD OUTSIDE CATHEDRAL 0.12 3. CLOSE UP OF RIFLE 0.17 4. WIDE/ PAN OF JAKARTA POLICE PERSONNEL DURING BRIEFING OUTSIDE CATHEDRAL CHURCH 0.28 5. SLV FEMALE POLICE 0.35 6. WIDE OF BRIEFING 0.45 7. SLV POLICEMEN OUTSIDE CHURCH 0.50 8. TILT DOWN FROM CATHEDRAL SPIRES TO FRONT GATE 1.00 9. VARIOUS OF WORSHIPPERS PASSING THROUGH METAL DETECTOR 1.12 10. SLV WORSHIPPERS ENTERING CHURCH COMPOUND 1.22 11. SLV OF WORSHIPPERS WALKING THROUGH METAL DETECTOR AND HAVING BAGS CHECKED 1.32 12. VARIOUS OF CENTRAL JAKARTA CHIEF POLICE INSPECTING SECURITY AT CHURCH 1.44 13. WIDE OF INTERIOR OF CATHEDRAL 1.49 14. WIDE OF CHURCH ALTAR 1.55 15. VARIOUS OF WORSHIPPERS DURING SERMON 21.5 16. WIDE OF CHURCH 2.22 17. SLV CHOIR BOYS WALKING DOWN THE AISLE IN PROCESSION 2.20 18. SLV INDONESIAN WOMEN CARRYING EFFIGY OF BABY JESUS 2.35 19. SLV CHOIR BOYS WALKING/ PROCESSION 2.45 20. CLOSE VIEW OF EFFIGY OF BABY JESUS IN NATIVITY SCENE 2.50 21. WIDE OF NATIVITY MODEL 2.57 22. WIDE OF CATHOLIC PRIEST LEADING SERVICE 3.04 23. VARIOUS OF WORSHIPPERS /CONGREGATION 3.16 24. WIDE OF ELDERLY WOMEN PRAYING 3.21 25. WIDE OF PRIEST AT THE ALTAR 3.29 26. TILT DOWN FROM DOME TO WORSHIPPERS 3.44 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: JAKARTA, INDONESIA
  • Country: Indonesia
  • Reuters ID: LVA3ISI0UVW62KV6F2YEBGLBMSKN
  • Story Text: A priest was attacked by machete-wielding men in
    Indonesia's troubled Sulawesi region despite hightened
    security measures across the country.



    About 130,000 police, many armed with automatic
    weapons, were deployed outside churches and at other public
    places across the Indonesian archipelago after a machete
    attack on a priest in Sulawesi.

    Bomb squads combed many churches before services began.

    As evening fell, millions of Christians flocked to
    churches across the world's most populous Muslim nation,
    defying warnings of possible attacks by militants in the
    country.

    In Jakarta's colonial-era Cathedral some 3,000
    worshippers had to pass through metal detectors or were
    frisked before attending the first mass of the evening.

    In the cathedral compound, worshippers who could not
    fit inside the building and crammed into tents laid on to
    cater for the overflow.

    A priest, identified as Jemris Tambalino, was in
    critical condition after being attacked on Friday (December
    24).

    National police in the capital, Jakarta, said things
    seemed quiet elsewhere in the country.

    Nerves have been rattled in the past week by false
    alarms, including loud blasts from a probable meteor shower
    and a dud grenade found in the car park of the Jakarta
    Hilton Hotel.

    Police have said about two-thirds of the total force
    would patrol churches, shopping malls and other public
    places during the Christmas and New Year period.

    Indonesia has fallen prey to a string of deadly
    bombings in recent years that have been blamed by
    authorities on the shadowy Jemaah Islamiah group, seen as the
    Southeast
    Asian arm of al Qaeda.

    Those attacks include the Bali bombings two years ago
    that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.

    Despite concerns of attacks, elsewhere in parts of
    Indonesia where Christians make up the majority, the mood
    was quite festive with no signs of tension.



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