Business as usual at 'bomb target' cafe

Four foreign tourists were occupied eating and drinking at Bedudal Cafe on Wednesday afternoon. They seemed unbothered by the news that the cafe was an alleged bomb target of a group of terror suspects. The suspects were captured by the police's anti-terror squad last week.

"I don't think they know about the information. We also pretend not to acknowledge it either," the cafe's manager Denny Nofrianto told The Jakarta Post.

Bedudal has come into the spotlight following a statement from the police saying that the detained suspects had planned to bomb the cafe in 2007, but that they changed their mind after learning that it had more local patrons than foreigners.

Opened in December 1997 by an Indonesian-Scottish couple, according to Denny, the cafe was popular among European, Australian and American tourists visiting Bukittinggi.