Target Stock Exchange Location Jakarta, Indonesia Attack type Car bomb | Start date September 14, 2000 Total number of deaths 15 | |
Similar 2004 Australian Embassy, 2003 Marriott Hotel bo, 2009 Jakarta bombings, Garuda Indonesia Flight 206, 2005 Bali bombings | ||
The Jakarta Stock Exchange bombing was a terrorist attack on the Jakarta Stock Exchange on September 14, 2000.
A car bomb exploded in the basement of the building, triggering a chain of explosions in which a number of cars caught fire. Most of the dead were drivers waiting by their employer's cars. Many had taken cover in their vehicles but suffocated as billowing black smoke engulfed the basement levels.
Investigation
In August 2001 an Indonesian court sentenced two men to 20-year jail terms for masterminding the attack. The two men were members of the notorious Indonesian special forces unit, Kopassus. Prosecutors had demanded the death penalty for Teuku Ismuhadi Jafar and life for his accomplice, Nuryadin, who escaped detention in July 2001 but was sentenced by the South Jakarta Court in absentia.
The court declined the death sentence for Jafar, saying that while he had ordered the blast he did not actively participate at the scene of the crime in downtown Jakarta.