Qualla: 2017 Jakarta Bombings https://qualla.com/2017-jakarta-bombings en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:27 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/q/q/g/u/2017-jakarta-bombings-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: 2017 Jakarta Bombings https://qualla.com/2017-jakarta-bombings 2017 Jakarta Bombings: Introduction https://qualla.com/2017-jakarta-bombings/ Photo credit Rochelimit at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. The first explosion sounded like a blown tire. At 9:00 p.m. on May 24, 2017, people at the Kampung Melayu bus terminal in East Jakarta heard a sharp blast near the toilets and smelled a chemical bite in the humid air. Some shrugged it off. Five minutes later, the second bomb went off at the front of the terminal, this one captured on camera, and there was no mistaking it. Hundreds of people ran. Passengers who had just stepped off a Transjakarta bus climbed back aboard. Streets jammed instantly. When police reached the scene, they found body parts scattered across the platform. The attack killed five people -- three police officers and the two bombers themselves -- and injured eleven, making it the deadliest single assault on the Indonesian National Police up to that point.

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/q/g/u/2017-jakarta-bombings-wp/qqgu-2017-jakarta-bombings-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full 2017 Jakarta Bombings: Officers on the Ground https://qualla.com/2017-jakarta-bombings/ Photo credit Rochelimit at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. The three policemen who died had been guarding a parade route. The procession had not yet passed when the bombs detonated, meaning the officers were standing in position, exposed, waiting for a crowd that would never arrive. Police Officer Ridho Setiawan, recently promoted, was k...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/q/g/u/2017-jakarta-bombings-wp/qqgu-2017-jakarta-bombings-officers-on-the-ground.mp3 0:06 2 full 2017 Jakarta Bombings: Pressure Cookers from Padalarang https://qualla.com/2017-jakarta-bombings/ Photo credit Rochelimit at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. The investigation moved quickly. Debris analysis revealed that the bombs were improvised explosive devices built from pressure cookers packed with TATP -- the same peroxide-based explosive used in the Manchester Arena bombing just two days earlier and half a world away. A purchas...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/q/g/u/2017-jakarta-bombings-wp/qqgu-2017-jakarta-bombings-pressure-cookers-from-padalarang.mp3 0:06 3 full 2017 Jakarta Bombings: Accused by Accident https://qualla.com/2017-jakarta-bombings/ Photo credit Rochelimit at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. In the chaos that followed the blasts, social media became a weapon turned on the innocent. Identity cards dropped by bystanders who had rushed to help survivors went viral online, their holders accused of being the bombers. Wiryawan Indra Wijaya, a resident of Sukabumi, had to b...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/q/g/u/2017-jakarta-bombings-wp/qqgu-2017-jakarta-bombings-accused-by-accident.mp3 0:06 4 full 2017 Jakarta Bombings: A City's Practiced Defiance https://qualla.com/2017-jakarta-bombings/ Photo credit Rochelimit at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. The hashtags appeared within the hour -- #PrayForJakarta and #KamiTidakTakut, the same "We Are Not Afraid" rallying cry that had followed the 2016 Thamrin attacks. Facebook activated its safety check. The Kampung Melayu terminal was closed; the Otto Iskandardinata intersection se...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/q/g/u/2017-jakarta-bombings-wp/qqgu-2017-jakarta-bombings-a-citys-practiced-defiance.mp3 0:06 5 full 2017 Jakarta Bombings: The Threads That Connect https://qualla.com/2017-jakarta-bombings/ Photo credit Rochelimit at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. By late June, police had arrested 41 people in connection with the Kampung Melayu bombing, nine of them principal suspects. Twenty-six of those detained had links to Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), the same network behind the 2016 Samarinda church bombing. The Kampung Melayu attack...

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