Wiranto stable after attack

In safe hands: Indonesian medics at a hospital in Pandeglang, Banten province, taking Wiranto (below) to an ambulance to be evacuated to Jakarta. — AP

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s Chief Security Minister Wiranto is conscious and in stable condition after he was stabbed by a man authorities suspect had been radicalised by Islamic State ideology, police said.

Television footage showed the minister slump to the ground beside his car after the attack yesterday in Pandeglang in Banten province, west of the capital on the island of Java.