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LinksThe Bali Bombing: What it Means for Indonesia
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/Pubs/cib/2002-03/03cib04.pdf
The bomb explosions in Bali on the night of 12 October 2002 were a shocking and unexpected event for most Australians and raised many questions about Australia's international and domestic security policies, particularly since the US campaign in response to the attacks of September 11 2001. For Indonesia, however, the implications are even more far-reaching. The bombings intensified US pressure on Indonesia to crack down on militant Islamic groups in the country, particular those that are alleged to have links with a series of planned or executed
bomb attacks throughout the Southeast Asian region in recent months. There has, for some time, been friction in US–Indonesia relations over what the US saw as Indonesia's failure to effectively support the US 'war on terror'.
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The Bali bombing: the Royal Darwin Hospital response
http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/179_07_061003/pal10082_fm.pdf
After the Bali bombing on 12 October 2002, injured Australians were evacuated to Darwin. The first patients arrived at the Royal Darwin Hospital (RDH) 26 hours after the blasts. RDH assessed and resuscitated 61 patients (including 20 intensive care patients, with 15 requiring ventilation, 19 surgery and more than 20 escharotomies). RDH evacuated 48 patients to burns centres around Australia within 36 hours of the first patient arrivals at the hospital and 62 hours after the bomb blasts. The response was successful, but improvements are needed in coordination between the different groups involved in such operations.
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UK Bali Bombing Victims Group
http://ukbbvgbs.co.uk/
The UK Bali Bombing Victims Group comprises of those who are bereaved, injured and those who helped in the immediate aftermath of the Bali Bombings 2002.
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Hating Americans: Jemaah Islamiyah and the Bali Bombings
http://www.iias.nl/nl/31/IIAS_NL31_0304.pdf
Late on the night of 12 October 2002, Ali Imron walked into the al-Khurobah mosque in Denpasar and performed a prayer of thanks. Shortly beforehand he had heard the massive bomb blast at the Sari Club and felt the ground shake beneath his feet. He had played a key role in assembling the bomb and knew that many people at the crowded club must have been killed or injured in the explosion. He would later say that he was ‘pleased and proud that the device he had built had exploded horrifyingly with its blaze reaching into the sky’ and that ‘the bomb … was truly the great work of Indonesia’s sons’.
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