The hotel, operated by JW Marriott, was opened in 2001 and offers 333 rooms and suites.

In 2003, a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside the lobby of the JW Marriott Hotel, killing twelve people and injuring 150.

The hotel was viewed as a Western symbol, and had been used by the United States embassy for various events.

[4][5][6] Both blasts were caused by suicide bombers, who checked into the hotels as paying guests several days earlier.

[7] The twin suicide bombings came four years after the last serious terrorist attack in Indonesia.