Bomb Explodes in Jakarta's Chinatown, 5 Hurt

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Bomb Explodes in Jakarta's Chinatown, 5 Hurt

A bomb exploded in front of a discotheque in Jakarta's Chinatown area in the early hours of Sunday wounding five people, one of them seriously, police said.

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A bomb exploded in front of a discotheque in Jakarta's Chinatown area in the early hours of Sunday wounding five people, one of them seriously, police said.

Two other crude bombs were found and defused, one in front of another Chinatown discotheque and the other at a shopping centre in the capital's main business district, police said.

"These incidents indicate that there are certain people trying to stir up trouble in Jakarta. They want Jakarta unsafe," the capital's police spokesman, Anton Bahrul Alam, said.

He said the bomb that exploded was planted in a foodstall in front of Chinatown's Exotic discotheque. It was a medium-sized explosive while the two unexploded bombs were smaller, he said.

"But all the three have similarities, and were set to explode around the same time," Alam said.

"This is terror. They put the bombs in strategic places," he said, adding that police were questioning dozens of witnesses.

Jakarta's Chinatown area was the scene of bloody anti-Chinese riots in May 1998.

Jakarta has been hit sporadically by bombings since then. The attacks have been attributed to various factors including politics, religious differences and gangland rivalry.

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