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Indonesia: Bomb Blasts Rock Maluku Province VOA News 14 Feb 2002 06:04 UTC 
A series of bomb blasts is reported to have rocked Indonesia's eastern Maluku province late Wednesday, a day after rival Christian and Muslim factions signed a peace pact.
The Kompas daily says there were four explosions in the city of Ambon, but no one was hurt. An Indonesian official said the explosions would not derail the peace accord.
On Tuesday, Maluku's Christian and Muslim leaders reached agreement to end three years of sectarian bloodshed. They signed an accord in the resort town of Malino, 1,400 kilometers east of Jakarta, after two days of peace talks.
Thousands of people have died in Maluku since bloody clashes erupted in January of 1999.
Some information for this report provided by AFP and Reuters.
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