JAKARTA, 19 July 2003 - Indonesian police say they will deploy 11,000 officers across Jakarta to safeguard next month's annual meeting of the People's Consultative Assembly, the top constitutional body. On Monday a bomb shattered windows and a door at the parliament building complex, which also houses the offices of the assembly, but caused no injuries.
National police spokesman, Zairnuri Lubis, told newsagency AFP that personnel have been ordered to be on constant alert and equipment such as trucks and armored vehicles are being readied. He says the security measures will cost about $US370,000 (three billion rupiah).
However Mr Lubis says there is no specific intelligence indicating terror attacks during the annual session from August 1-10. The blast at the parliament building occurred just days after the arrest of nine alleged members of the Jemaah Islamiyah terror network, who were said to be planning attacks.
Police said Monday the bomb at parliament resembled two others which exploded in April behind the United Nations headquarters in central Jakarta and at the city's international airport. But they said the similarity did not mean the same group is responsible.

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