Breaking: Three People Arrested Near Jakarta Suspected Of Planning Bomb Attack

These arrests are the latest in a security crackfrown before the New Year holiday season and come as fears have been heightened or a rise in Islamic State inspired radicalism in Indonesia.

Jakarta police spokesman Argo Yuwono said: “The plan was to use the bomb at the presidential palace during the change of guard”

A Starbucks coffee shop was targeted by two suicide bombers and four other explosions went off in an affluent area filled with Western brands and offices in centre of the capital

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Police raided a dormitory in Bekasi, a town about an hour outside Jakarta, and found an unexploded bomb.

Security forces carried out a controlled detonation of the bomb.

Islamic State has about 1,200 sympathisers in Indonesia.