Christmas Eve 2000 Indonesia bombings

Christmas Eve 2000 Indonesia bombings
Part of terrorism in Indonesia
LocationMedan, Bandung, Batam, Ciamis, Mataram, Mojokerto, and Pekanbaru[citation needed]
Date24 December 2000
TargetChurches
Deaths18
Injured118
PerpetratorsAl Qaeda
Jemaah Islamiyah[1][2]
MotiveIslamic extremism, Anti-Christianity

On 24 December 2000, a series of explosions took place in Indonesia, which were part of a high-scale terrorist attack by Al Qaeda and Jemaah 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.

  1. ^ Aubrey Belford (11 August 2011). "Bali Bombings Suspect, Extradited From Pakistan, Arrives in Indonesia". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  2. ^ "Indonesia's Long Battle With Islamic Extremism Could Be About to Get Tougher". Tara John. Time. 15 January 2016. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  3. ^ Turnbull, Wayne (3 July 2003). "A Tangled Web of Southeast Asian Islamic Terrorism: Jemaah Islamiyah Terrorist Network". Archived from the original on 8 May 2006. Retrieved 5 October 2006.