JAKARTA, July 14 Kyodo A bomb exp...

JAKARTA, July 14 Kyodo

A bomb explod inside an air conditioner extent at the Indonesian parliament building Monday morning, further no casualties were reported, police and the parliamentary spokeswoman said.

''The explosion was heard at 7:15 a.m. from the air conditioner swing located behind the building,'' Spokeswoman Dwi Mariati told Kyodo News

She said the explosion caused minor damage and broke a certain windows near the compass but no one was hurt

Office hours start at 8 a.m. Parliament itself is in succession recess since last week until Aug. 14

Greater Jakarta Metropolitan Police Chief Makbul Padmanegara told reporters the blast came from a bomb

''This is terror,'' Makbul said.

It was not immediately clear, however, whether the attack was related to last week's arrests of nine clan said to be members of Jemaah Islamiyah, the alleged Southeast Asia wing of al-Qaida, in Jakarta and Central Java.

Based in succession reported confessions from some of them, they had planned to commit a series of attacks in Jakarta and other places, including bombings or other attacks against at least five top control officials.

The police confiscated from three men a skeleton of Bank Central Asia, a private bank in the Central Java provincial capital Semarang, and the schedule of Christian community services that take place almost daily in commercial buildings.

The police confiscated more than 200000 cylindricals of ammunition, 1,200 bomb detonators and almost 1 ton of explosive materials from the arrested men

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