Indonesian police Saturday were studying DNA evidence from the remains of two suicide bombers who carried out twin attacks on luxury Jakarta hotels, as security was tightened across the country.
Suspected Islamist suicide bombers detonated powerful devices at the Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott hotels in an upmarket business district Friday, leaving nine dead and up to 50 injured including at least 18 foreigners.
A New Zealand businessman was confirmed dead and Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith, who is due in Jakarta later Saturday, said he feared the worst for three missing Australians, …

JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) — Three men convicted of killing 202 people in a 2002 bombing at two nightclubs on the Indonesian island of Bali were executed by firing squad early Sunday.
Imam Samudra, Amrozi bin Nurhasyim and his brother Mukhlas, who is also known as Ali Ghufron, were executed at 12:15 a.m. at Nusa Kampangan prison, said Jasman Panjaitan, a spokesman for Indonesia’s attorney-general.
Autopsies were performed the men before the bodies were turned over to their families, Panjaitan said.

The three Islamic militants convicted of the Bali bombings of 2002, in which 202 people including 24 Britons died, were executed by an Indonesian firing squad last night on a prison island south of Java.
Two military helicopters stood by to airlift the corpses to the men’s home villages, where their wives and 13 children awaited their funerals.

Down behind the sweeping tree-lined avenues of Jakarta’s diplomatic area, Indonesians sitting at the roadside food stalls are absorbing the news.
It is only a few hours since the spokesman for Indonesia’s attorney general made the announcement: that the country’s best-known prisoners – Amrozi, Ali Ghufron and Imam Samudra – are due to be executed at the beginning of next month.

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, – A grenade exploded outside the office of former separatist rebels in Indonesia’s once-restive Aceh province on Thursday, but no one was reported injured, a police official said.
Resource-rich Aceh was torn by conflict for nearly 30 years before a peace deal between Jakarta and the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) in 2005.