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...Indonesian police investigating the bomb blasts that tore the heart out of Bali's Kuta tourist district on Oct. 12, killing around 200 and injuring hundreds more, believe Rimbawa may hold the key to identifying at least one of the killers responsible. Rimbawa was a sweeper in Paddy's Irish Pub, and witnesses say he was standing near a 1-kilogram TNT bomb that detonated on a table inside the popular bar. That explosion sent scores of frantic patrons rushing out?into the range of a far more deadly bomb packed inside a white Mitsubishi minivan parked outside the Sari...
...Rimbawa saw who placed the explosives inside his pub that night, he isn't telling. The bomb has made sure of that. Apart from burns that cover almost half his spindly frame, Rimbawa's proximity to the blast has left him profoundly and perhaps permanently deaf. Worse, his mind is so scrambled, so traumatized, by what he witnessed that he has refused to speak to his family and has been unable to help the police. His mother, Griya, hopes the cleansing ceremony will rid her son of the horrors in his head. "It is our only chance to save...
Your best pick-up line: “Hi, are you from Pearl Harbor? ’Cause baby, you’re the bomb...
...closed its gas field in Aceh for four months due to safety concerns as violence escalated in the region, where separatist rebels are fighting a guerrilla war against the government. Now 3,000 government troops guard the site, but turmoil continues. Earlier this year, a bicyclist carried a pipe bomb to within a few hundred meters of the front gate of the gas field operation when the bomb detonated prematurely, killing him. "Indonesia is becoming the Nigeria of Asia," says Vriens...
...Some believe the Bali bombing may galvanize her government to take stronger action across the economy. Even in the aftermath of the attack, a foreign stock analyst is steadfastly upbeat about the country's prospects. "The economy is still growing," he says during a phone conversation, "and some companies are doing very well." Just then, a voice booms over an intercom behind him. He puts the phone down to listen, then picks it back up and says: "There's a bomb scare. I have to leave my office...