The ****** in ******* on Thursday was as much a battle of images and perceptions as it was an exchange of ******* and **********, which is likely to have an impact on tourist flows into the country.

The Australian government has reiterated a warning about travelling to Indonesia, while the Canadian government website says “There is no nationwide advisory in effect for Indonesia. However, you should exercise a high degree of caution due to a continuing ****** of ********* ******* throughout the country.”

Indonesia’s counterterrorism effort has had significant success over several years in degrading the capabilities of domestic militants to launch ****** *******, creating a sense that the battle against Islamic militants was largely won. On one level, the ****** in ******* was an attempt to change that narrative and re-instill fear.

A Canadian man was ****** in Indonesia’s capital Thursday when ****** launched a series of co-ordinated ******* including at a Starbucks.

Indonesian ****** have arrested three men on suspicion of links to the brazen ******* in the heart of the country’s capital, and said they recovered a flag of the Islamic State group from the home of one of the *********.

The discovery of the flag bolsters authorities’ claim that the ****** Thursday was carried out by the Islamic State group, which controls territory in Syria and Iraq and whose ambition to create an Islamic caliphate has attracted 30,000 foreign fighters from around the *****, including a few hundred Indonesians and Malaysians.