On 24 December 2000, a series of explosions took place in Indonesia, which were part of a high-scale terrorist attack byAl Qaeda andJemaah Islamiyah.[3] The attack, which occurred on Christmas Eve, involved a series of coordinated bombings of churches in Jakarta and eight other cities which killed 18 people and injured many others.
Mojokerto: Three churches bombed; one dead. One of them is theEben Haezer church in Jalan Raden Ajeng Kartini. At around 8:30pm[5] on 24 December 2000, while trying to throw the bomb away, a Muslim security volunteer, Riyanto, was killed.[6]
Two suspects were arrested following the bombings. Indonesian police say they found documents implicatingHambali in the bombings.[7]Abu Bakar Bashir was tried for involvement in the bombings in 2003 but was found not guilty; he was subsequently convicted of involvement in the2002 Bali bombings.
The Indonesianprogressive metal bandKekal has cited the bombings as an inspiration for its anti-terrorism song "Mean Attraction," which appeared on its third full-length album,The Painful Experience.[8]
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