Lack of evidence in Jolo bombing - Mon, February 4 2019 - Jakarta Post

Analysts have raised doubts over claims made by a senior Philippine government official that an Indonesian couple was behind church bombings in the southern Philippines, citing a lack of evidence.

Sidney Jones, director of the Jakarta-based Institute for Policy Analysis of Confl ict (IPAC), said on Saturday that Manila was apparently still in the dark over the identity of the bombing perpetrators. "There's no evidence! Different officials are saying different things — Malaysians, Yemenis, Indonesians. They actually have no clue," Jones told The Jakarta Post via text message on Saturday.

Philippine Interior Minister Eduardo Manahan Año earlier said that based on witness accounts and information from undisclosed sources, he was convinced that Indonesian citizens committed suicide bombings at a Roman Catholic church in Jolo, the capital of Sulu province, which has lon...