26 May, 2017
"This is the biggest attack in the capital since previous year", Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen said, reporting from Jakarta.
Police spokesman Setyo Wasisto said three officers were killed and 10 people wounded have been shifted to hospital for medical treatment.
Police said the first bomb in the latest Jakarta attack was detonated at 9:00 pm (1400 GMT) in an area where police officers were on duty.
"Tonight, to Indonesian citizens and all of us who are here at the scene, I express very deep concern".
Human body parts - including a severed head - and shattered glass were strewn across the road following the attack, which happened as police were helping to secure a parade by a local group.
The explosions occurred near a Transjakarta bus station in Kampung Melayu in the eastern part of the capital.
"Anti-terror squad Densus 88 is now conducting an investigation, we want to know where the bombers came from, which groups they are affiliated to", Setyo Wasisto, national police spokesman told AFP.
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, generally follows a moderate form of the faith.
Indonesia has suffered a series of militant attacks in the past 15 years, including the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.
A similar type of bomb was used in Bandung in February by a lone attacker, killed by police, who was suspected of links to a radical network sympathetic to Islamic State.
Police guard at scene of an explosion in Jakarta May 24, 2017.
On Jan. 14, 2016, Jakarta was rocked by multiple explosions, including one at a police post, and gunfire around the Sarinah shopping mall in Central Jakarta.
The terminal may have been targeted for its increased police presence, with extra officers deployed ahead of a torch rally to celebrate the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, authorities said.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told his Parliament on Thursday that he had phoned Jokowi to "offer our condolences and our resolute support to Indonesia as we condemn the murderous terrorist attack on civilians and police in Jakarta last night".
