Bombers from Bandung

The two perpetrators of a suicide bombing at Kampung Melayu worked as tailors. They came from two different towns.

May 30, 2017

The night before police came to his home, Yuniar Hidayat had seen pictures of the bodies of the two bombers at Kampung Melayu, East Jakarta, on his Instagram timeline. He never imagined one of the suicide bombers would be Ichwan Nurul Salam, his nephew.

It was only when the police showed him a picture of Ichwan that he realized the body was the son of his older sibling, who lived not far from his home at Batununggal, Bandung, West Java. The poli

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