'Candlelight Operation' to Keep New Year’s Eve Celebrations Terror-Free
Jakarta. The National Police have set up "Operasi Lilin" (Candlelight Operation) to keep New Year’s Eve celebrations all over the country safe and free from terror attacks.
Operasi Lilin 2016 will run until Jan. 2.
"People should go about their business as usual. We'll keep everything safe for them," National Police’s general information unit head Chief Comr. Martinus Sitompul said in Jakarta on Wednesday (28/12).
Police will send in more officers to prayer houses, tourist spots, shopping malls and main roads in the capital as a precaution.
Last year’s celebrations in Bandung, West Java, were interrupted when a Molotov bomb filled with nails exploded underneath a television crew's car parked near the city's town square. The low-explosive bomb did not claim any casualty.
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