JAKARTA - The US embassy in Jakarta was closed Thursday after the latest in a series of security alerts in the terrorism-blighted country.
Embassy spokesman Max Kwak told that the heavily-fortified embassy complex in the centre of the city had received a "security threat", but did not elaborate on the nature of the warning.
A message posted on the embassy's website said US consular services and government offices would also be closed in Jakarta and other cities across the archipelago.
"The Embassy reminds all Americans that the terrorist threat in Indonesia remains high," the warden's message said.
"Attacks could occur at any time and could be directed against any location, including those frequented by foreigners and identifiably American and other western facilities or businesses in Indonesia."
Indonesia has been hit by a number of terrorist attacks in recent years, including the October 2002 Bali bombings in which 202 mainly foreign toursists were killed.
A bomb blast outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta last September left 12 people dead.
The attacks and others were blamed on Jemaah Islamiyah, a Southeast Asian militant organisation said to have links to Al-Qaeda. Two key Jemaah Islamiyah operatives remain at large and are believed to be planning further strikes.
Indonesia's police chief General Da'i Bachtiar said Wednesday that one of the two, Malaysian bomb expert Azahari Husin, was behind a number of bomb threats made recently to oil refineries with Western links on Borneo island.