starbucks shop and the building where the u.n. offices are. is also in the area. now, the police spokesman also said that there are in pursuit of another attacker who was who escaped from the scene and who is probably armed. security forces are after this man now. but as we see here. there s a lot of police in the area. it s very unclear who is behind this attack. and so far, they have no they would not say who may be behind it. has that been resofled with the apparent suspect. there was gun fire exchange at this police station that was attacked. we re hearing also unconfirmed reports of other attacks.
here in 2004. the marriott hotel was attacked twice. so there s usually heavy security anyway. people you have scanners at entrances of hoe tels, commercial establishments and malls. so there s a heightened awareness of a possible attack happening again here. isha? and kathy, just very quickly, the situation in the rest of the capital right now, i know you re sort of down at the scene, but what s happening? do you know away from this area right now? because there are reports of there being possibly other blasts being reported, that kind of thing. coming down on a motor bike is the fastest way to get to the area. you could feel people were on edge. people were talking about it. people were scared. and i m sure they are taking extra precautions, you know.
so far in arthis area that was attacked is cordoned off. there s heavy security around here. also you could see the city is on the edge. it s been a while since a major attack, a terrorist attack was lunched in jakarta, the kpl of jakarta. there s been several minor attacks outside, particularly in the provinces of java. where police have been in pursuit of a small group calling themselves the east indian mujah mujah mujahadeen. the police would not say for now who may be behind the attack in jakarta today. john? looking at the images we re
that s all we can say. we understand gunmen, possiy plural, have gone into this area right across from the starbucks. but as you say, this is it s isis inspired. not surprising if that s the case. because it can happen. you ve got 500 indonesians possibly that have been training in syria. and they ve come back with new ideas possibly. sorry, just to clarify. when you say you ve heard have you heard from the police that this could be linked to isis? or just you ve heard, this is what people are saying. this is what people are saying to us. we do have some internal u.n. security feed, which is telling us that there are possibly gunmen here. in terms of the connection to isis, i think it might be take some time to establish that. but if groups start claiming it credibly, i imagine quickly that s the kind of thing they do, we will know.
u.n. official found himself in the middle of the terror. jeremy douglas spoke to cnn a short time ago sdplchl. i was in the car when it happened. we were pulling into the back of the building. we pulled up and got out of the car. there is a bit of chaos because people weren t sure what was going. a second bomb went off as we were getting out of the car. we rushed into the building. a third bomb went off. we went up to our office on the tenth floor and now we are in lockdown in the office building on the tenth floor. a fourth and fifth and sixth bomb went off. we heard small arms fire in front of the building. you could not get more central in jakarta if you tried. it is smack dab in the middle of the central business area. major international hotel