2016 Samarinda church bombing

2016 Samarinda church bombing
Part of terrorism in Indonesia
Oikumene Church in Sengkotek, Samarinda, the location of the bombing
LocationOikumene Church, Sengkotek, Samarinda Seberang, Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
DateNovember 13, 2016
10:10 WITA (UTC+8)
TargetChristians
Attack type
Bombing
WeaponsMolotov bomb
Deaths1
Injured4 (including the perpetrator)
PerpetratorJuhanda, out of sympathy for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
AssailantsJuhanda
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.