Indonesia Arrested Nine Over Jakarta Blast

World | August 17, 2003, Sunday // 00:00

Nine people were arrested for suspected involvement in the Marriott hotel bombing in Jakarta which killed 12 people, Indonesia's police chief General Dai Bachtiar announced Sunday. The general said five of the nine were also believed to have been involved in previous bombings in Indonesia and some of them were also suspects in the Bali nightclub blasts last October, which killed 202 people. "The process of investigation continues," he said, adding that investigators were currently checking the results of their interrogations with evidence and other reports.

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