JAKARTA - INDONESIA'S president on Friday vowed authorities will arrest the terrorists responsible for twin attacks on luxury hotels that killed 9 and wounded over 50.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono spoke on Friday after powerful blasts at the J.W. Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta shook the country. It has been almost four years since a major attack in the world's largest Muslim-majority nation.

He said: 'This action was carried out by a terrorist group, though it is too early to say if it is the same network' responsible for a series of bombings in Indonesia in recent years, Jemaah Islamiyah.

'Those who carried out this attack and those who planned it will be arrested and tried according to the law,' he said in a televised address to the nation.

Calling the twin bombings an 'act of terrorism', Mr Yudhoyono said the attackers 'have no humanity and they don't care about the damage done to our country with this act of terrorism which will have wide effects on our economy, trade, tourism and image in the eyes of the world.'

'I have instructed law enforcement to punish whoever is involved in this terror act, regardless of their political background,' he vowed.

A suicide bomber was involved in the attacks on the Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in said Theo Sambuaga, head of a parliamentary commission in charge of security affairs.

'We received a report that 8 died at the scene...including a suicide bomber who also died there,' he said. -- AP, AFP, REUTERS.

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