Jakarta (ANTARA News) - National Defense Forces (TNI) Commander General Djoko Santoso and National Police (Polri) Chief General Bambang Hendarso Danuri personally inspected some of the activities of a joint military-police anti-terror exercise here Saturday.

They visited the Borobudur Hotel, one of the five locations where the joint exercise is being conducted.

General Danuri said the joint exercise was taking place under the theme "Through Joint Counter Terrorism Ecercies, TNI and Polri are Ready to Professionally Deal With Every Form of Terror Attack Potentially Disturbing National Stability".

Some 3,559 military and police personnel were involved in the exercise being carried out at the Borobudur Hotel, Mercure Ancol Hotel, the Indonesian Stock Exchange,

Tanjung Priok coast, Seribu Islands oil field, and Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.
Last Thursday, General Djoko Santoso said the joint anti-terror exercise by TNI and the National Police had nothing to do with US President Barack Obama`s upcoming visit.

"One of the backgrounds for carrying out this routine activity is the terror attacks in Bombay (Mumbai, India) some time ago," General Djoko Santoso said after officially opening the joint exercise.

TNI and the Police are conducting the joint exercise against terrorists in Jakarta and surrounding areas, from March 11 to 13, 2010.

The Mumbai terror attacks at around 11 spots began on November 26, 2008 and lasted until November 29, killing at least 173 people and wounding another 308.
The joint TNI-Police exercise was the second after the first one in 2008.

Meanwhile, the White House has announced that US President Barack Obama will delay a trip to Indonesia and Australia by three days to work on health care reform.

"The President will delay his departure for Indonesia and Australia - will now leave on Sunday - the First Lady and the girls will not be on the trip," wrote US Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on his twitter Friday.

Obama had been due to visit Guam, Australia and Indonesia, where he spent four years of his childhood with his American mother and Indonesian stepfather.

The US President had been scheduled to leave for Asia on March 18, but Gibbs said the departure date was now March 21.(*)

Editor: Aditia Maruli
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