December 2005 Palu bombing

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At 7:05am December 31, 2005, a nail bomb detonated outside a Palu market stall selling pork at a marketplace in Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province.

It left eight people dead and injured 45, and early suggestions indicate the target may have been chosen to maximise Christian casualties, in a region torn with Muslim/Christian hostilities, including the 2002 Bali bombing orchestrated by Abu Bakar Bashir.

A single person was arrested the same day, according to a report by provincial police chief Oegroseno, although it was unclear whether he was a direct suspect, police would only say that he had been acting suspiciously and asked vendors where they lived [1]. A second undetonated bomb was found four metres from the initial blast. [2] The bombs were believed to have been dropped from a passing car.

The bombings were condemned by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, at a time when 47,000 soldiers and police were on heightened alert after warnings that militants could be planning a terror attack to coincide with the Christmas holiday.