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US embassy in Indonesia issues security alert for hotels and banks | |
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The US embassy in Indonesia issued a security alert on Saturday for its citizens in the country’s second-biggest city, Surabaya. | |
“The US embassy has been made aware of a potential threat against US-associated hotels and banks in Surabaya, Indonesia,” the embassy said in a statement on its website. | |
“The US embassy recommends heightened vigilance and awareness of one’s surroundings when visiting such facilities,” it said. | |
The statement gave no further details. | |
Indonesia is considered to have been largely successful in cracking down on homegrown militant groups following multiple attacks in the 2000s targeting foreigners and state institutions. | |
But authorities have raised concerns in recent months over hundreds of Indonesian citizens attempting to travel to Syria and Iraq to fight alongside militants of the Islamic State (Isis) organisation. |