"A bomb squad was sent there to check the suspicious package," Chief of South Jakarta Police Senior Commissioner Gatot Edi Pramono said.
Gatot said the police had cleared the area where the suspicious package was found.
The package was found on a roadside at Samali Ujung, Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta, but the police were still trying to find the man who had found the suspicious bomb first, he said.
A series of bomb threats have rocked parts of Indonesia this week.
On Tuesday, four packages containing books with bombs planted in them were sent to Ulil Abshar Abdalla, activist of the Islam Liberal Network, Goris Mere, the chief of the National Anti-Narcotics Agency, Yapto Soeryosumarno, the chief of the Pancasila Youth organization, and Ahmad Dhani, a musician.
Then, a plastic bag containing a bomb was also found in Cibubur, Bogor district.
A Bank Central Asia (BCA) office building at Serpong Road, Banten Province, also received a bomb threat on Friday.
On Saturday, a church at Titi Papan Road in Medan, North Sumatran province, also received similar threat.
However, a bomb planted in a book in Jakarta on Tuesday went off injuring three people.
In response to these bomb threats, House of Representatives Speaker Marzuki Alie urged the police to immediately find the perpetrators so that it would not turn into a political issue.
"I suspect that judging from the targets, the bomb threats had been carried out by a network rather than individuals," he said.
Indonesia has been fighting against terrorist cells since the 2002 Bali bombings that claimed 202 lives, including 88 Australian holiday makers.
Two years before the terrorists attacked the resort island of Bali, Indonesia was rocked by a Christmas eve bomb in 2000.
The latest bombing incident occurred in July 2009. At that time, two suicide bombers simultaneously attacked two luxurious hotels in South Jakarta, killing several people.
(T.T014/Uu.R013/HAJM)
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