Word: indonesianness
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...Sari Club, in the town of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali, was one of those places where the world comes out to play. By 11 p.m. on Oct. 12, it was packed with the usual crowd--tanned Australian kids in shorts and halter tops dancing to house music, surfers in from the beach downing beers and Jell-O shots, expat sports teams from Hong Kong and Singapore, backpackers from around the world--the children of globalization, mobile phones in hand, making out before heading back to their cheap hotels. David Fielder, 46, a British rugby referee in town...
Investigators with the Australian Federal Police, assisting local Indonesian authorities, think there were three bombs in Bali synchronized to wreak maximum havoc. The first explosion--quite small--was inside Paddy's Irish Bar, a popular watering hole. A few seconds later, a slightly more powerful bomb exploded in front of the Sari Club. Then, as terrified customers poured into the street from the bars, came the real thing; a Mitsubishi L300 minivan had pulled up to the sidewalk, packed with C4 high explosive and ammonium nitrate--around the world, the car bomber's favorite recipe. The van blew up. Survivors...
...hottest seats in Indonesia. Getting some solid arrests?none have been made so far?will reassure the international community that President Megawati Sukarnoputri is serious about the need to reverse her country's image as a haven for terrorist groups. "My credibility, the credibility of the Indonesian police, and the credibility of Indonesia are all wrapped up in this case," Pastika admits...
...sophisticated attack," said an Australian Federal Police investigator. High-level police sources tell TIME that one Islamic group is of particular interest: Sulawesi-based Laskar Jundullah, the same group al-Qaeda whistle-blower Omar al-Faruq told the CIA he'd helped establish with Agus Dwikarna, an Indonesian businessman. Dwikarna was arrested last March at a Manila airport after security guards found plastic explosives and detonation cables in his suitcase. He's now serving a minimum 10-year sentence in the Philippines...
...Police on the ground in Kuta believe the attackers were Indonesian nationals. A woman inside Paddy's claims to have seen an Indonesian man in a brown plaid shirt carrying a plastic bag into the club. She was evacuated from Bali and is now in an Australian hospital with extensive burns. The Australian quoted her as saying, "I will never forget his face as long as I live." Perhaps, locked inside Rimbawa's tormented mind, is a vivid picture of that same murderous face...