NU strongly condemns Poso Suicide bombing

Jakarta, NU Online
Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the Indonesia's largest Muslim organization has strongly condemned a suicide bombing carried out by a male motorist on Monday morning.<>

"NU strongly condemns this cowardly and senseless suicide bombing," General Chairman of the Central Board of Nahdlatul Ulama told reporters here on Wednesday, saying the police should soon investigate the attack.

Meanwhile, Presidium Chairman of the Indonesia Police Watch (IPW) Neta S Pane said the perpetrators of terror acts in Poso, Central Sulawesi, had become more and more aggressive as reflected in the suicide bombing incident Monday.

Neta said in his written statement made available here Monday that police`s repressive actions turned out to be responded to by the public (radicals) with desperate acts.

He said that repressive police actions in coping with (terror) problems, turned out to have created grudge among certain segment of the people against security officers.

In the Monday's incident, the suicide bomber`s body was torn into pieces, Sofyan, a local journalist, who was in the scene when the bombing happened, said.

Eye witnesses said the motorist trespassed the police office`s complex area despite efforts by several police officers to stop him.

Around 20 meters from the guard post, the bomb exploded in front of the police office`s mosque.

The bomb did not claim other lives but parts of the police office building and mosque were damaged moderately.

Spokesman of the Central Sulawesi Police Office Adjunct Senior Commissioner Soemarno confirmed about the bombing but could not give the detail because the police are still investigating the attack.

Editing by Sudarto Murtaufiq