Police say the girl brandished a semi-automatic pistol at safety officers outdoors the presidential palace in Jakarta.
Authorities in Indonesia have detained a lady carrying a gun outdoors the presidential palace in Jakarta at a time when President Joko Widodo was not in his workplace, in accordance with media reviews.
Presidential official Ali Mochtar Ngabalin advised the Reuters information company the girl was apprehended at roughly 7am (00:00 GMT) on Tuesday and that she had not entered the palace compound.
The girl, who seemed to be in her twenties, was sporting a niqab – a veil worn by some Muslim ladies which covers the hair and decrease half of the face – and was carrying a Quran when she brandished the gun close to the palace, he mentioned, including that she was apprehended by safety officers.
The Beritasatu newspaper, citing a police official, mentioned the girl was carrying an FN pistol and had walked immediately in the direction of the safety officers and pointed the gun at them.
A spokesperson for the Jakarta police mentioned the girl was now being questioned, but it surely was not instantly clear what her motive was or how she had obtained the weapon.
Indonesia, which is the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, has beforehand suffered assaults carried out by armed teams, generally focusing on authorities officers and safety forces.
Police shot lifeless a lady who had opened hearth on officers on the nationwide police headquarters in Jakarta on March 31 final 12 months in an assault impressed by the ISIL (ISIS) armed group.
Indonesian authorities had already been on heightened alert on the time after a suicide bombing at a Catholic cathedral throughout Palm Sunday Mass left at the least 20 individuals wounded three days earlier on Sulawesi Island.