WTTC calls for support for Indonesia after Jakarta attacks
Travellers are being urged to support Indonesia following the terror attacks in Jakarta yesterday.
David Scowsill, president and CEO of the World Travel and Tourism Council, said the best response to the terrorist attacks is for tourists to continue to travel to the visit the ‘beautiful destination’.
"We encourage the government to continue to put the appropriate security measures in place," he added.
Indonesian authorities say they have identified all attackers involved in the bombings and gunfight in central Jakarta and arrested a further three men suspected of helping plan the attacks.
"We have identified all attackers and we can say that the attackers were affiliated with the ISIS group," national police spokesman Anton Charilyan told the media.
"ISIS is behind this attack definitely," added Jakarta police chief Tito Karnavian.
Police also arrested three men in dawn raids at homes in the Jakarta area.
Downtown Jakarta was hit by a series of suicide bombings and gun attacks which left seven people dead.
Five were identified as attackers, including three suicide bombers. Two civilians, including a Canadian national, were also killed.
More than a dozen people were injured including several foreign nationals.
An orchestrated attack began when three suicide bombers almost simultaneously detonated explosives near a Starbucks cafe while a group of gunmen attacked a police post nearby with gunfire and grenades.
It was the first terror attacks in the city for six years.
Two Jakarta hotels were hit in 2009 which killed seven people, while the Indonesian island of Bali was targeted in 2002, and again in 2005 with more than 200 people killed including dozens of Australian tourists.
Read more at: http://www.wttc.org/press-room/press-statements/2016/wttc-comment-in-response-to-the-attacks-in-jakarta-14-january-2016/
Copyright @ WTTC 2016
Read more at: http://www.wttc.org/press-room/press-statements/2016/wttc-comment-in-response-to-the-attacks-in-jakarta-14-january-2016/
Copyright @ WTTC 2016
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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