A bomb was placed outside the Australian Embassy at Kuningan district, Jakarta (one-tonne bomb was packed into small Daihatsu van). ndonesia's national police chief has accused the man who built the Bali and Marriott hotel bombs of carrying out the huge blast that killed at least 9 people and wounded as many as 139 at Australia's embassy.

The police chief, General Da'i Bachtiar, said he had linked the bombing to the Bali and Marriott attacks on the basis of "evaluation and analysis by officers in the field". He believed "the perpetrators of the attack are from the terrorist network led by Azahari Hasin and Noordin Mohammed Top".

The two Malaysians have been on the run since the October 12, 2002, Bali bombings and General Bachtiar said he believed they packed explosives into a car which stopped near the heavily fortified entrance of Australia's embassy in Kuningan in central Jakarta.