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Indonesian authorities shot a person who entered the national police headquarters in Jakarta, in an incident described by local media as an "alleged terror attack"<br>  <br>An armed woman shot dead at Indonesia's national police headquarters Wednesday was an Islamic State sympathiser, authorities said, citing social media posts she made shortly before the fatal gun battle.<br> <br>Indonesia has been on high alert in recent days after two suicide bombers -- alleged members of a pro-IS extremist group -- blew themselves up at a church in Makassar city on Sulawesi island, wounding about 20 people.<br> <br>Police outposts have been frequent targets of Indonesian extremists in the past.<br> <br>On Wednesday afternoon, the 25-year-old woman wearing a niqab face veil and a long black gown entered the police complex in downtown Jakarta and opened fire on officers at the entrance, authorities said.<br> <br>[https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/Images%20broadcast Images broadcast] by local media showed the woman fall to the ground as shots rang out, before lying motionless as police surrounded her body.<br> <br>"She was a lone wolf who supported the IS ideology and this has been proven by her social media posts," chief of the Indonesian National Police Listyo Sigit Prabowo told reporters Wednesday evening.<br> <br>Authorities said they had identified the woman as a university dropout who had left a suicide note at her family home in Jakarta, which they raided after the shootout.<br> <br>She had posted the IS flag and writings about becoming a martyr on a recently created Instagram account, Prabowo said.<br> <br>Authorities would probe whether the woman had links to Muslim majority Indonesia's myriad extremist groups.<br> <br>-- Nation on edge --<br> <br>The country, which has long struggled with attacks by Islamist militants including the 2002 [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-bali-tour-du-lich-bali-indonesia-4-ngay-3-dem-tu-ha-noi-tu-sai-gon-hcm-may-bay.html tour bali giá rẻ] bombings, has been on edge after the weekend cathedral attack.<br> <br>A newlywed couple who belonged to pro-Islamic State extremist group Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) was behind the cathedral blast, police have said.<br>          Police tape sealed off the family home of the armed woman who was shot dead by authorities while attacking Indonesia's national police headquarters in Jakarta<br>  <br>More than a dozen others suspected in the plot have been arrested in recent days.<br> <br>The couple were members of an Islamic study group along with several of the other suspects, police said.<br> <br>Sunday's explosion at the main Catholic cathedral in Makassar took place just after congregants finished celebrating Palm Sunday, the first day of Holy Week in the run-up to Easter Sunday.<br> <br>The attack came after the arrest of dozens of suspected militants in recent months by Indonesia's counter-terror squad.<br> <br>Indonesia's security forces regularly arrest suspected militants and attacks have often been low-level and have targeted domestic security forces.<br> <br>Before Sunday, one of the country's last major  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-bali-tour-du-lich-bali-indonesia-4-ngay-3-dem-tu-ha-noi-tu-sai-gon-hcm-may-bay.html kynghidongduong.vn] deadly attacks was in 2018, when a dozen people were killed after a family of suicide bombers blew themselves up at churches during Sunday services in Indonesia's second-biggest city Surabaya.<br> <br>The family -- including two daughters, aged nine and 12 -- and another family of five, which carried out the suicide bombing of a police headquarters, all belonged to the same Koran study group and were linked to JAD, which has pledged allegiance to the so-called Islamic State.<br> <br>Formed in 2015, JAD gained notoriety the following year for a gun and suicide bomb attack in the capital Jakarta that killed four civilians and four attackers -- including one who blew himself up at a Starbucks outlet.<br> <br>It was the first attack claimed by IS in Southeast Asia.<br> <br>JAD was also implicated in a 2019 cathedral suicide bombing in the Philippines committed by a married Indonesian couple which killed worshippers and security forces.<br> <br>[http://www.medcheck-up.com/?s=Indonesia%27s%20deadliest Indonesia's deadliest] terror attack was the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings, which killed more than 200 people, mainly foreign tourists.<br>