The Hotel Indonesia Kempinski, located in the heart of the city, evacuated guests and staff on Wednesday after a bomb threat was received.

The hotel is connected with a newly built shopping mall Grand Indonesia, however the malls marketing department said that  the threat was made against the hotel not the mall, but some of the mall visitors chose to left the shopping center.

UPI.com reported: Police cordoned off the area around the foreign-owned Hotel Indonesia Kempinski and an investigation is under way, the Tempo-Interactive Web site reported.

The Hotel Indonesia, which opened in 1962, added the Kempinski name after the German company took over management in May 2008.

The 290-room hotel, Kempinski's first property in Indonesia, recently underwent a major refurbishment.

No statement from Kempinski has been received as of July 23rd.