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...office, the sprawling archipelago is struggling to emerge as a stable democracy. It hosts a full complement of developing-country ills: endemic corruption, erratic courts, reform-resistant corporations, crippling national debt, a barely functioning banking sector and falling investment. Psychological shock waves surging outward from Kuta Beach are bound to intersect with the nation's fragile social and political ecosystem in unpredictable ways, testing the allegiances and resilience of an ineffective government, and dealing a body blow to a sputtering economy that has yet to fully recover from Asia's 1997 economic crisis. "The bomb blast in Bali hurts...
...rescue workers made their way into Kuta's destroyed Sari Club, the popular watering hole for vacationing Westerners that was the epicenter of one blast, the full extent of the wreckage and casualties were just coming clear; initial reports put the death toll at 3, then 15, then 28, then 50 and then 182. On the scene, shaken witnesses blurted out fragmentary descriptions: the crumpled remains of eight surrounding buildings, four charred bodies in a parked car, the mangled heaps of two vehicles that were flung 10 meters by the blast...
...explosion was clearly timed to mow down as many foreigners as possible. Kuta is the nightlife capital of Bali, and Jalan Legian is its main drag. Rows of bars, their street fronts open to Bali's warm night air, form a bustling pub crawl route for legions of backpackers, surfers and Australian tourists. And around 11pm, when the bomb exploded, would have been the street's peak hour. Hundreds of revelers and street vendors shilling Balinese handicrafts fill the avenue at night. Sari Club, says a local, was one of the more exclusive: it only admitted Westerners; locals weren...
...scene, senior commissioner of Kuta police, Hermin Hidayat, said the local security forces are on the move. "We have activated the whole police force of Bali. All military troops in the area have been put on alert...
...high season in Bali, but, according to a Kuta hotel employee named Ketut, this October has been unusually busy. There has never been an attack like this in Bali, he explains. There have been rare tribal disputes in the past, but nobody has ever targeted foreigners. A tragedy like this, explains Ketut, will be devastating for the tourism industry in Bali and the rest of Indonesia. "We are going into bankrupcy," said Ketut. For Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri, already facing criticism for not pulling her weight in the war on terror, the attacks reveal the horrible human cost of delaying...