<p>A suspected Islamic militant suicide bomber killed a police officer and wounded 10 other people in an attack on a police station in the Indonesian city of Bandung on Wednesday, police said.</p>.<p>Police identified the attacker as 34-year-old Agus Sujatno, who was linked to the pro-Islamic State group Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) and had already served four years in a maximum security prison for his involvement in a 2017 bombing.</p>.<p>"The fingerprint test and the facial recognition identified the perpetrator as Agus Sujatno, or Abu Muslim," national police chief Listyo Sigit told a press conference in Bandung, capital of West Java province.</p>.<p>He was released in September 2021 after serving his sentence for a previous bombing in Bandung, Sigit added.</p>.<p>Wednesday's blast occurred at about 8:00 am at the Astana Anyar police office in Bandung.</p>.<p>"When our officers were doing the morning roll call, a man tried to enter the office forcibly and officers tried to stop him," said West Java police chief Suntana, who like many Indonesians goes by one name.</p>.<p>"The perpetrator insisted on getting closer to our officers while wielding a knife and suddenly an explosion happened," he told reporters.</p>.<p>A witness who was near the police station said he heard a very loud explosion.</p>.<p>"I heard a bang, it was so loud. I took a peak inside the police office and I saw thick smoke billowing," Didin Khaerudin, who runs a nearby kiosk, told AFP, adding police ordered shops to close after the blast.</p>.<p>A second device was later found nearby and safely detonated by the police bomb squad, Suntana said.</p>.<p>A civilian passerby was among the injured, who were mostly hit by shattered glass and debris, he said.</p>.<p>Police said they had found paper messages attached to the blue motorbike ridden by the attacker.</p>.<p>The messages denounced the Indonesian criminal code as a product of "infidels" and urged people to wage a war against law enforcers, police said.</p>.<p>Police also found a stack of papers at the scene rejecting a newly passed amendment to the criminal code.</p>.<p>Some Islamist extremists have called for the implementation of sharia law in Indonesia, which officially recognises five religions in addition to Islam.</p>.<p>Members of JAD have staged other attacks, including a series of suicide bombings in May 2018 against several churches and a police headquarters in Surabaya, Indonesia's second-biggest city.</p>.<p>Those attacks, carried out by families including children, killed a dozen people.</p>.<p>Indonesia, the world's biggest Muslim-majority nation, has long struggled with Islamist militancy.</p>.<p>The Indonesian resort island of Bali was the scene of Southeast Asia's worst militant attack when Al-Qaeda-linked militants detonated bombs at a bar and nightclub that killed more than 200 people in October 2002.</p>
<p>A suspected Islamic militant suicide bomber killed a police officer and wounded 10 other people in an attack on a police station in the Indonesian city of Bandung on Wednesday, police said.</p>.<p>Police identified the attacker as 34-year-old Agus Sujatno, who was linked to the pro-Islamic State group Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) and had already served four years in a maximum security prison for his involvement in a 2017 bombing.</p>.<p>"The fingerprint test and the facial recognition identified the perpetrator as Agus Sujatno, or Abu Muslim," national police chief Listyo Sigit told a press conference in Bandung, capital of West Java province.</p>.<p>He was released in September 2021 after serving his sentence for a previous bombing in Bandung, Sigit added.</p>.<p>Wednesday's blast occurred at about 8:00 am at the Astana Anyar police office in Bandung.</p>.<p>"When our officers were doing the morning roll call, a man tried to enter the office forcibly and officers tried to stop him," said West Java police chief Suntana, who like many Indonesians goes by one name.</p>.<p>"The perpetrator insisted on getting closer to our officers while wielding a knife and suddenly an explosion happened," he told reporters.</p>.<p>A witness who was near the police station said he heard a very loud explosion.</p>.<p>"I heard a bang, it was so loud. I took a peak inside the police office and I saw thick smoke billowing," Didin Khaerudin, who runs a nearby kiosk, told AFP, adding police ordered shops to close after the blast.</p>.<p>A second device was later found nearby and safely detonated by the police bomb squad, Suntana said.</p>.<p>A civilian passerby was among the injured, who were mostly hit by shattered glass and debris, he said.</p>.<p>Police said they had found paper messages attached to the blue motorbike ridden by the attacker.</p>.<p>The messages denounced the Indonesian criminal code as a product of "infidels" and urged people to wage a war against law enforcers, police said.</p>.<p>Police also found a stack of papers at the scene rejecting a newly passed amendment to the criminal code.</p>.<p>Some Islamist extremists have called for the implementation of sharia law in Indonesia, which officially recognises five religions in addition to Islam.</p>.<p>Members of JAD have staged other attacks, including a series of suicide bombings in May 2018 against several churches and a police headquarters in Surabaya, Indonesia's second-biggest city.</p>.<p>Those attacks, carried out by families including children, killed a dozen people.</p>.<p>Indonesia, the world's biggest Muslim-majority nation, has long struggled with Islamist militancy.</p>.<p>The Indonesian resort island of Bali was the scene of Southeast Asia's worst militant attack when Al-Qaeda-linked militants detonated bombs at a bar and nightclub that killed more than 200 people in October 2002.</p>