Total, Vico, Freeport offices hit by impact of bomb blast

The bomb blast outside the Australian embassy in Kuningan area in South Jakarta on Thursday morning had caused some damage to the office buildings of several oil and gas and mining companies and injured a number of workers of the companies.

The impact of the bomb blast, which have killed at least seven people and more than 160 people, broke the glass windows of the Kuningan Plaze where French oil firm TotalFinaElf and American independent firm Vico take spaces for office.

Broken glass hit some of the companies? employees but none of them were seriously injured, according to TotalFinalElf spokesman Ananda Idris and deputy chief of BP Migas Kardaya Warnika.

TotalFinaElf and Vico sent their employees home soon after the incidence and, according to Ananda, TotalFinalElf had ordered its workers to stay home until Tuesday.

?The management asked the employees to return to office on Tuesday, but it depends on the situation,? he said.

According to Kardaya, the management of Vico moved to the Bimasena building in South Jakarta to do their jobs on Friday.

The 89 Plaza, where copper and gold firm PT Freeport Indonesia, a subsidiary of American mining giant Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold has office on the fifth floor, was also hit by the impact of the bomb blast.

Some of its workers were injured due to broken glass windows, according to Siddarta Moersjid, Freeport Indonesia?s spokesman, said.

Freeport also sent its employees home soon after the incidence and they were allowed to stay home until Tuesday. (Godang)