Jakarta, Dec. 24 -- The Mobile Brigade Unit of the Jakarta Metropolitan Police deployed the Bomb Disposal Unit, the Chemical, Biological, and Radioactive Detachment, and the K9 Unit to sterilize the Jakarta Cathedral Church in Central Jakarta ahead of Christmas Mass.

"The security and sterilization efforts demonstrate our commitment to ensuring the congregation's safety during Christmas," the Commander of the Mobile Brigade Unit of the Jakarta Metropolitan Police, Senior Commissioner Henik Maryanto, said in a statement on Tuesday (December 23).

The areas being inspected include the altar, the indoor and outdoor congregation seats, the parking area, the garden, the Maria Cave, the right side aisle, the auditorium, and restrooms.

"The in...