JAKARTA, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Indonesia's president Monday called for tightened security in his country, saying September and October were "special months for terrorism."
President Susilo Yudhoyono was speaking to a meeting of foreign media editors in the capital, Jakarta, Channel NewsAsia reported.
The meeting took place as the British Embassy in Jakarta was evacuated after a suspicious parcel mailed to a local member of the embassy staff caused an alert. The package turned out to be harmless.
The Australian Embassy in Jakarta was bombed in September last year in an attack that killed 12 people, including the suicide bomber. Two nightclubs on the resort island of Bali were bombed in October 2002, killing 202 people.
The attack on the United States that sparked President Bush's war on terror took place on Sept. 11, 2001.
Yudhoyono asked that security be stepped up until the end of the year, especially in September and October.
He noted that two suspects in the Bali and embassy attacks, Malaysian bomb experts Azahari Husin and Noordin Mohammad Top, remained at large. The two are suspected members of the Jemaah Islamiyah regional militant group, which is allegedly linked to al-Qaida.
