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Bomb plot by Indonesian terrorists targeted at Jakarta Presidential Palace

Sunday, 11 Dec 2016 | 6:30 AM MYT

Jakarta police spokesman Awi Setiyono showing a photograph of the "rice cooker bomb".ST PHOTO: FRANCIS CHAN.

JAKARTA: The woman arrested by Indonesian anti-terror police in Bekasi, West Java on Saturday with a home-made bomb, had planned to strike at Istana Merdeka in Jakarta on Sunday.

The police said the female suspect, identified only with the initials DYN, was given the 3kg "rice-cooker bomb" by two accomplices to mount a suicide-bombing in the capital.

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