Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Public prosecutors who have so far handled terrorism cases are being given special security following recent bomb threats.

Attorney General Basrief Arief said here on Saturday he had taken adequate security measures for prosecutors that have so far handled terrorism cases.

"Besides that we and the police have also had standard operating procedures for dealing with security problems," he said after a session of the meeting of public prosecutors of Asia Pacific and the Middle East.

He said he certainly hoped bomb terror that had happened in the past week would not continue to happen so that "people could be more secure, comfortable and more creative to carry out their daily activities."

Adrianus Meliala, a criminologist from state University of Indonesia said the bomb terror sent through book packages so far indicated there had been a decline in social solidarity in the Indonesian community.

"It tells that there are people in Indonesia who have a heart to act like that and create unrest on others," he said.

The first bomb terror occurred last Tuesday (March 15) when a package containing a bomb planted in a book was discovered addressed to activist of Islam Liberal Network, Ulil Abshar Abdalla, in Utan Kayu, East Jakarta.

The bomb exploded when a police officer was trying to check it, hurting him, another police officer and a security guard.

Another package with a bomb in it was also sent to the National Anti-Narcotics Agency that and another one to Yapto S Soeryosumarno, the chief of the Pancasila Youth organization. The could all be defused and hurt noone.

On Thursday another bomb package was found at the office of musician Ahmad Dhani and was later defused.
(T.R021/H-YH/HAJM)

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