World pop star Justin Bieber performed last week in Bogor, West Java, while the media rap continuing stories on the recent bomb scares. The Canadian teenager presented his big hits including "Baby," on Saturday evening, April 24 at the Sentul International Convention Center, Bogor, with great success in front of at least 12,000 fans.

Less than a week later, on Wednesday evening (27/4), the American rock band from Los Angeles, also performed in Jakarta when the media was still busy reporting stories on terrorism and discoveries of planted bombs in several places in town. Why those world-class artists seemed to be undeterred by the bomb scares and anyway decided to remain on their show schedules here?

Bomb scares have been foiled just within the weeks those artists had been scheduled to perform here. After a lone suicide-bomber who detonated himself at Cirebon Police`s mosque on April 11, police found another bomb hidden under a gas pipeline in Serpong, Banten province.

The big buck from the shows alone would not be the sole reason for them to perform when bomb scares had been around in Indonesia, a country with a thick record of being made terrorism target since terrorist bomb attacks in Bali in October 2002.

Indonesia which is among the world`s top countries in tackling terrorism may also be the reason. Police have anyway succeeded in hunting down and capturing the perpetrators just within days. Praises for Indonesia`s success in fighting terrorism have been flowing in from around the world, from Washington, D.C. to Australian capital of Canberra and neighboring countries.