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| Southeast Asia |
| Indonesian mag firebombed |
| 2010-07-07 |
| TWO men in black threw petrol bombs at the office of a prominent Indonesian investigative magazine early on Tuesday, its editor in chief said, a week after it published a cover story on police corruption. The case underlines the high stakes in exposing and tackling graft in a country that is attracting a surge of interest from investors but is considered one of the most corrupt in Asia. Tempo's editor in chief Wahyu Muryadi said the magazine's security guards saw two men pull up on motorcycles at the Jakarta office at about 2.30am (3.30am Singapore time). 'They then threw three Molotov bottles, bottles with petrol inside. Two of them blew up and then they disappeared on motorcycles,' he said, adding no one was hurt and there was no significant damage to the building. Police had sent a team to investigate, he said, while declining to speculate on the motive. 'I believe the police will do their best to investigate it. |
| Posted by:Fred |