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Petrol bomb thrown at Myanmar embassy in Central Jakarta
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Police in Central Jakarta are investigating an attack on the Myanmar's embassy in the capital on Sunday. (Shutterstock/File)
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petrol bomb was thrown at Myanmar's embassy in on Jl. Agus Salim in Central Jakarta early Sunday, police said, as anger grew across the mainly Muslim archipelago about violence against Rohingyas in Myanmar.
No one was injured in the incident, said Jakarta police spokesman Argo Yuwono.
A patrolling police officer saw fire at the rear terrace on the second floor and immediately informed police who were guarding the embassy.
"We are still trying to catch the perpetrator," Agus told AFP.
Indonesians are becoming increasingly concerned at the treatment of the Rohingya, a stateless Muslim minority in mainly Buddhist Myanmar.
Some 60,000 refugees, mostly Rohingya, have poured into neighbouring Bangladesh since the latest round of fighting broke out nine days ago when Rohingya militants attacked security instrallations.
Myanmar's army says nearly 400 people have died, among them 370 Rohingya militants.
Dozens of people on Saturday protested outside the embassy, demanding that Myanmar end the crisis. They called on the Nobel Prize committee to withdraw the peace prize awarded to Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi in 1991.
Several groups protested in Jakarta's Buddhist area on Sunday.
