Jakarta – Indonesia's defense minister has accused supporters of former dictator Suharto of bombing the attorney general's office and inciting fighting across the country, news reports said Friday.

Juwono Sudarsono said military intelligence reports showed Suharto's associates were involved in a plan to stoke violence in an attempt to escape justice. "There are strong indications that the cronies ... are certainly involved in some of the unrest and bombings," he was quoted as saying by the Jakarta Post newspaper.

Sudarsono said Suharto's supporters – whom he refused to name – were supplying weapons and other covert assistance to violence-wracked areas. Those include the Maluku islands, where more than 3,000 people have died in 18 month of Christian-Muslim clashes, and in Aceh, where separatists are fighting for independence. He said the supporters were also responsible for a bomb blast that ripped through part of the attorney general's office on Tuesday.

Indonesia's police chief, Gen. Rusdihardjo, said a second unexploded bomb found Wednesday was placed next to a storage room that housed documents and other evidence collected by prosecutors in their corruption investigation.

Rusdihardjo said that the unexploded bomb was an army-issue device designed only for military use. But, he said, the explosive device may have been stolen and that it had not necessarily been planted by military personnel.