Indonesia police search office after bomb threat

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police were searching an office building in central Jakarta after bomb threats were received on Tuesday, an official at one of the companies in the building and a media report said.

The bomb threats were made against PT Bakrie Sumatra Plantation Tbk, a plantation firm in the diversified Bakrie Group, in the Wisma Bakrie 2 office building in the Kuningan business district in central Jakarta, which is close to the Australian embassy in Jakarta.

"An unidentified caller said the bomb was placed on the 15th floor where the office of Bakrie Sumatra Plantation is," a security official at the building was quoted by online media Detik.com as saying.

A threat was made at 10 a.m. and then at around 1 p.m. on Tuesday, the official added.

"The information I have got is the bomb squad is still sweeping the building," said national police spokesman Sulistyo Ishak.

A Reuters correspondent who was visiting the office building on Tuesday saw members of the bomb squad at the lobby of the building when he was leaving while some staff had gathered outside the offices.

A spokesman for the Australian embassy in Jakarta said it was aware of the reports of the bomb scare, but declined to say whether the embassy would be evacuated.

Security has been raised in Indonesia after two deadly suicide bomb attacks on luxury hotels in the capital last Friday.

There have also been a number of bomb threats and scares in the capital since the attacks.

(Reporting by Aloysius Bhui, Fitri Wulandari and Sunanda Creagh; Writing by Ed Davies; Editing by Jeremy Laurence)