Indonesia

Explosions ripped through the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels in Jakarta on Friday July 17th. 2009, killing at least eight people. Authorities were acting on the assumption that the bombing was carried out by Muslim extremists.

The streets outside the two hotels, which sit adjacent to each other in a new business district in central Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, were covered in shattered glass and debris. The facade of the Ritz-Carlton was ripped off after an explosion in the restaurant while people were having breakfast.

Indonesia hasn't suffered a major terrorist attack since the 2005 bombings of seafood restaurants in Bali that killed 202 people and the bomb explosion outside Australian Embassy in 2004 killed at least nine. The JW Marriott was the target of an earlier bombing in 2003, in which twelve people died.

Hotel has become soft target for terrorists, recent attack of two hotels in India’s financial hub, Mumbai, and on luxury hotels in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Indonesian government needs to take the threat more seriously and do more to prevent more attacks in the future instead of just paying lip service after each attack; as usual authority promised swift action against the perpetrator of the crime.