2016 Samarinda church bombing | |
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Part of terrorism in Indonesia | |
Location | Oikumene Church, Sengkotek, Samarinda Seberang, Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Indonesia |
Date | November 13, 2016 10:10 WITA (UTC+8) |
Target | Christians |
Attack type | Bombing |
Weapons | Molotov bomb |
Deaths | 1 |
Injured | 4 (including the perpetrator) |
Perpetrator | Juhanda, out of sympathy for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant |
Assailants | Juhanda |
No. of participants | 5 |
A terrorist attack occurred on November 13, 2016 when a man named Juhanda detonated a Molotov bomb in front of Oikumene Church in Samarinda Seberang, Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, where children were playing. A toddler was killed in the incident and three other toddlers were injured. In September 2017, Juhanda and four others were convicted of the attack, with Juhanda sentenced to life imprisonment, while the others received sentences ranging from six to seven years.
The bombing was the second attack on church in Indonesia in 2016, with the first attack occurred in Medan on August when an ISIS sympathiser attacked a priest during a mass. It was also the second terror attack to occur in less than a month, after another ISIS sympathiser was shot dead after wounding three police officers with a machete in Tangerang.