Show and tell: Special Forces soldiers take part in a show of force marking the start of a major joint antiterror drill at the National Monument in Jakarta on Thursday ahead of the visit of US President Barack Obama. Obama is scheduled to visit the world's largest Muslim-majority country, where he lived as a boy, later this month. AP/Dita Alangkara
The military and the police are holding a joint counterterrorism military drill at the National Monument compound in Jakarta on Thursday.
Various units from every armed force is participating in the training drill, including the Army's Strategic Reserve Command (Kostrad), the National Police's Mobile Brigade, the Army's Special Forces (Kopassus), the Navy's Special Forces (Denjaka) and the Air Force's Special Forces Bravo.
The event is being attended by, among others, Indonesian Military chief Gen. Djoko Santoso, National Police chief Gen. Bambang Hendarso Danuri and the military forces chiefs of staff.
Indonesian counterterrorism authorities won international praise Wednesday for killing a top-ranked Southeast Asian militant wanted for planning the deadly 2002 Bali bombings.
Police announced that bomb-making materials were found during one of the two raids near Jakarta on Tuesday that killed fugitive Dulmatin and his two bodyguards.
Dulmatin, a 39-year-old Indonesian trained by al-Qaida in Afghanistan who used just one name, was wanted for the suicide bombings that tore through two Bali nightclubs popular with Westerners, killing 202 people in Indonesia's deadliest terrorist attack. He was also blamed for the 2004 truck bombing of the Australian Embassy in Jakarta that killed 11.
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