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41922
Wed, 01/21/2009 - 13:30
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SECURITY TIGHTENED AT EGYPTIAN EMBASSY
Jakarta, Jan 21 (ANTARA) - Security measures were tightened at the Egyptian embassy on Jalan Teuku Umar, Central Jakarta, on Wednesday after unidentified people had lobbed three Molotov cocktails at the mission's front fence on Tuesday.
Besides internal security guards, a number of police personnel were also deployed to tighten security at the embassy.
But no police line was installed on the embassy's fence walls which were about three meters high. A number of police cars were seen on stand-by around the embassy and in nearby streets.
The traffic flow in nearby streets remained smooth and was not affected by the molotov cocktail incident the previous day.
In the meantime, Central Jakarta Police chief Senior Commissioner Ike Edwin said his personnel were increasing security measures in various vital targets in Jakarta such as embassies.
On Tuesday, a number of unidentified people dropped three molotov cocktails on the embassy's fence walls at 5 pm. But the incident claimed no victims.
Police have questioned several witnesses who were there when the incident took place.
Anti-Israeli sentiment is on the rise in Indonesia following the Jewish state's attacks on the Gaza Strip which had killed over 1,300 people.
Egypt denied on Monday an assertion by a senior Israeli official that the two governments had signed an agreement to stem arms smuggling into Gaza ahead of the Israeli ceasefire.
"Israel and Egypt have reached written understandings on security arrangements to prevent arms smuggling along the Gaza-Egypt border and deeper inside the Sinai Peninsula," an Israeli official told AFP earlier.
Besides internal security guards, a number of police personnel were also deployed to tighten security at the embassy.
But no police line was installed on the embassy's fence walls which were about three meters high. A number of police cars were seen on stand-by around the embassy and in nearby streets.
The traffic flow in nearby streets remained smooth and was not affected by the molotov cocktail incident the previous day.
In the meantime, Central Jakarta Police chief Senior Commissioner Ike Edwin said his personnel were increasing security measures in various vital targets in Jakarta such as embassies.
On Tuesday, a number of unidentified people dropped three molotov cocktails on the embassy's fence walls at 5 pm. But the incident claimed no victims.
Police have questioned several witnesses who were there when the incident took place.
Anti-Israeli sentiment is on the rise in Indonesia following the Jewish state's attacks on the Gaza Strip which had killed over 1,300 people.
Egypt denied on Monday an assertion by a senior Israeli official that the two governments had signed an agreement to stem arms smuggling into Gaza ahead of the Israeli ceasefire.
"Israel and Egypt have reached written understandings on security arrangements to prevent arms smuggling along the Gaza-Egypt border and deeper inside the Sinai Peninsula," an Israeli official told AFP earlier.
