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Multiple Explosions Shake a Mosque in an Indonesian High School and Injure 55

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Police officers and military personnel stand guard at the gate of a school where explosions reportedly occurred, in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Nov. 7, 2025. Dita Alangkara/AP PhotoJAKARTA, Indonesia—Indonesian authorities said Friday they have identified a 17-year-old boy as the suspect in an attack that shook a mosque at a high school in the capital, Jakarta, injuring at least 54 people, mostly students.Witnesses told local television stations that they heard at least two loud blasts around midday, just as the sermon had started at Friday prayers, from inside and outside the mosque at SMA 72, a state high school within a navy compound in Jakarta’s northern Kelapa Gading neighborhood.

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