Panigoro office gets bomb threat

Bomb threats have been raging in a number of places in Jakarta, including the office of Arifin Panigoro's PT Medco in Graha Niaga tower on Jl. Sudirman.

On Tuesday afternoon, at 2:20 p.m., an anonymous caller called Medco office and told one of Medco security guards, Suswanto, that the building would soon be exploded and therefore, the caller asked Medco to vacant the building.

Then again, at 2:40, an anonymous man called Medco again, and told one of Medco's receptionists, Oke, that the building would be exploded.

Suswanto then reported the bomb threat to Taman Puring police precinct that immediately sent a team of police officers to Graha Niaga to search for the bomb, without emptying the building.

After two hours of searching, the police then declared that the office building was safe. And people in the building worked normally. (*)