Video from the site, taken soon after the explosion, showed smoldering wreckage and palm fronds scattered on the ground.
Body parts recovered from the blast site were of a man and a woman who were presumed to be the bombers, said Kombes E. Zulfan, the spokesman for the regional police.
Father Wilhelmus Tulak, a priest at the cathedral, told Metro TV, an Indonesian network, that a parking attendant had been burned as he tried to stop the two people on the motorcycle, who he said looked suspicious.
Mohammad Ramadhan Pomanto, the mayor of Makassar, a multifaith port city of about 1.5 million people on the island of Sulawesi, told Metro TV that body parts were found as far as 200 meters away.
Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, has a significant Christian minority. Mr. Joko, the president, condemned what he called the “terrorism” at the cathedral and said that “the state guarantees the safety of religious people to worship without fear.”
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