Indonesia sees more lone-wolf terror attacks

Police officers at a police post in Tangerang, near Jakarta, where a jobless 21-year-old man attacked two officers with knives and pipe bombs last Thursday. - AFP

JAKARTA: Indonesia has been hit by a spate of ISIS-inspired attacks mounted by different domestic militant groups since the start of the year.

But the worrying trend is of more lone-wolf terrorists striking random targets in the name of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant group, said police chief Tito Karnavian.