It was October 12, 2002, and the night was just getting started. David was treated by the staff at Royal Perth hospital under the leadership of Fiona Wood. SHANE HAMMING,an explosives specialist with the AFP's Australian bomb data centrewho was sent to Bali: I first heard about [the bombing] on the news on the Sunday, I think. [33][34][35] On 25 October 2008, Communications and Information Minister asked the Indonesian media to stop calling the three "heroes". It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse. Mr Fyfe said he needed to understand what had happened to him. That has not held him back; quite the contrary. "I call it my moment of acceptance," Mr Fyfe said yesterday. How forensics solved the Bali Bombings. The militant organisation is believed to have started planning the bombing some 10 months earlier after ordering a new strategy of hitting soft targets, such as nightclubs and bars. I've never smelled that before. [5], On 9 November 2008, Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Imam Samudra and Huda bin Abdul Haq were executed by firing squad on the island prison of Nusakambangan. In 2005, two marble wall placards were unveiled at Hong Kong Football Club in memory of the members of the club who were killed in the bombings. We'd eaten at the nightclubs, near the famous Poppieslane, and then we walked along Kuta beach at sunset back to our hotel. One of the things thats enabled me to get through is that I accepted everything that happened very quickly, I didnt fight the, Why has it happened?, Mr Fyfe said. Then I was on a stretcher on a tarmac there in Denpasar, and we're on a Hercules jet bound for Darwin. Dr Pethick helped transfer them to the nearest clinic and then onto the local hospital. They smiled, they laughed, they were just normal people. "Everybody's situation is their situation," Mr Fyfe said. On 3 March 2005, Bashir was found not guilty of the charges surrounding the 2003 bombing, but guilty of conspiracy over the 2002 attacks in Bali. And then as I got closer, the sights got worse. Quite a few people had got out. On 15 August, Riduan Isamuddin, generally known as Hambali, described as the operational chief of Jemaah Islamiyah was arrested in Ayutthaya, Thailand, the old capital one hour's drive north of Bangkok. David Fyfe came close to losing his life in the Bali bombings and still carries major physical scars. David Fyfe is linked to 15 organisations which are included in 3 lists - Charitable Organisations, Utilities and Public Infrastructure and State Government Businesses. 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An unofficial list of the dead, missing and injured Australians following the bomb blasts in Bali: 30 Australians are confirmed dead including: Shane Foley, 34 (from the Coogee Beach Dolphins junior rugby league club), Marc Gajardo, 30 (from Cornwall, was living in Byron Bay), Adam Howard, 26 (from Double Bay, member of the Dolphins), Josh Iliffe, 28 (from Kensington, member of the Dolphins), Linda Makawana, 49 (formerly of Kiama, lived in Bali for five years), Dave Mavroudis, 29 (from Wagga Wagga, member of the Dolphins), Jodie O'Shea, 29 (from Como, died in Royal Perth Hospital), Kathy Salvatori, 38 (from Malabar, wife of former rugby league international Craig), Clinton Thompson, 29 (from Griffith, member of the Dolphins), Gerard Yeo, 20 (from Dubbo and member of the Coogee Dolphins), Corey Paltridge, 20 (from Perth, member of Kingsley football club), Robert Thwaites, 24 (from the Gold Coast), Jared Gane, 27 (from Gold Coast, and possibly also a NZ citizen), David Kent, 41 (living in Singapore, formerly Queensland), Joshua Deegan, 22 (from Adelaide, a member of the SANFL club Sturt). pleased to announce the appointment of Mr David Fyfe as an Independent Non-Executive Director. Clint Thompson Trent Thompson JONES:You don't eradicate terrorist groups completely. This website and associated newspapers adhere to the Independent Press Standards Organisation's Another operative, Wan Min bin Wan Mat, revealed to police that he had given Mukhlas money, at Hambali's request and that he understood part of the money had come directly from al-Qaeda. They were friendly, approachable, people. Two of Clint and Trent's brothers, Brock and Ryan, and their sister Farrah, are accompanying them. That can only be in a war and Indonesia is not at war."[47]. Suddenly the lights went off. ALAN ATKINSON, former ABC journalist and one of the first reporters on the scene: It was Saturday evening. We're talking not a short amount of time after the blast. Munandar is still at large. David was on a trip with his football team when the devices exploded in the tourist district of Kuta, killing 202 people. There was just bodies lying around on the ground People are staggering helping other people stagger out. A permanent memorial was built on the site of the destroyed Paddy's Pub on Legian Street. And what's incredible is [I no longer fear]traffic jams. David Fyfe was in a bar when three terrorist bombs rocked the holiday resort in October 2002. The highest court in Indonesia, the Constitutional Court, found by a margin of five to four that trying the terrorist suspects under these retroactive laws violated Article 28I(1) of the constitution [2]. These laws were used by the prosecution instead of existing criminal laws as they allowed the death penalty to be imposed and lowered certain evidentiary restrictions. The former Scot has been running Synergy, which has more than one million customers, in an acting capacity since Mr Waters stepped down in February. I wasn't involved in that part of it, but I know a lot of my colleagues that I've spoken to during the investigation and since were travelling to all different parts of Indonesia at the time to suspected bomb-making or actual bomb-making factories. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. I felt that I was on the pavement. I couldn't see anything, so I could only feel with my hands. A remembrance garden was constructed at the International School Ho Chi Minh City commemorating teachers from that school who were killed in the bombings. But I'm getting my life back. West Australian Newspapers Limited 2023. I raced outside as did everyone who was in the club to see what was going on. Denpasar court official Nengah Sanjaya said the 3-page appeal would be sent to a Cilacap, central Java court. The Extra) Augusta-Margaret River Times Amrozi's brother, Ali Imron, who had expressed remorse for his part in the bombing, was sentenced to life imprisonment on 18 September. The most powerful knowledgebase mapped from 20 years of research and insight into every WA This was one of the very few fountains allowed to operate during the drought in 2007. It was an end-of-season soccer trip that put Mr Fyfe in Bali, standing on the edge of the dance floor in Paddy's Bar, when the first bomb went off. AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), abc.net.au/news/what-happened-october-12-2002-in-the-bali-bombing/101482382, Get breaking news alerts directly to your phone with our app. JONES:[The terrorists]were more inspired by two things [in the Bali bombing attack]. Patek is a suspect in other bombings as well as the one in Bali. Mr Fyfe, 33, said: "I'm at the stage where my prosthetic leg will crack before I do.". The scale of the disaster meant that the Indonesian government quickly made an exception to allow foreign doctors to help at the hospital. Stuart Anstee, 23 (from Launceston) glass fragments in throat and back removed yesterday at Royal Darwin Hospital. The bombing occurred during one of the busiest tourist periods of the year in Kuta Beach, driven in part by many Australian sporting teams making their annual end-of-season holiday. My mum couldn't believe I was there that night. He is humble about the part his willpower and tenacity played in his recovery. Anatomy of a Terrorist Attack: An in-Depth Investigation into the 2002 Bali, Indonesia, Bombings 2007-14 About the Matthew B. Ridgway Center The Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies at the University of Pittsburgh is dedicated to producing original and impartial analysis that informs I told the family I'd be in touch and I [left]. The total weight of the van bomb was 2,250 pounds (1,020kg). And that was the reason that, for the first time, you had JI become involved in violence on Indonesian soil in a way that hadn't happened from the birth of JI until the eruption of violence in Ambon in 1999. [20] Morning and afternoon timely wrap ups of every news item delivered straight to your device. But [the psychologist] said to get rid of it all all the bad mementos from my history so I can live a healthier life. The story is not chronologically linear, starting with the explosion and then moving from time to time so as all three plots are culminated one after the other. That man took me to a hospital in Kuta. His remarkable resilience meant that he was determined to get the most out of life, despite his injuries. Secondary charges in this indictment accused him of involvement in the Bali bombing, the first time he faced charges in relation to this attack. Despite losing a limb David refused to use a wheelchair, and is now learning to surf using a carbon fibre leg. The Scot said: "My fiancee Simone urged me to give it a try. His account of the bombing, his struggle to overcome his horrific injuries and the work of Fiona Wood in saving his life, graphically demonstrated the great work the Foundation has already done and why FPA . I looked to the left where the Sari Club was, and it was just absolute chaos. DE HAART:I just grabbed anyone I could see in front of me and [helped] them out. DECI: When I woke up my position was under the car's dashboard. The large, high-temperature blast damage produced by this mixture was similar to a thermobaric explosive,[21] although the bombers may not have known this. My left leg, it was at right angles, and my right foot, my toes were missing. The Indonesian chief of police, General Da'i Bachtiar said that the bombing was the "worst act of terror in Indonesia's history". Mr Fyfe is a non-executive director of the Fiona Wood Foundation, a 2002 Bali bombing survivor, and regularly speaks at events in Western Australia. Power 500 is a catalogue of Western Australia's most influential business leaders across the state's major industries. It's important to realise that neither of these were AFP jurisdiction. DE HAART: People wandering around, people in a state of shock. In this oral history, we hear from Australian and Balinese survivors,former and current Australian Federal Police officers, a journalist and a terrorism expert. GREEN: This was the largest bombing I've ever attended, even today It was huge. Idris picked up Imron on the Yamaha and the duo headed back into Denpasar. I did my rehab in Darwin, so eight and a half weeks in Darwin, being the last Australian to get out of that Darwin hospital. I grabbed notebooks and pens and phone and water. It stars Raelee Hill, Mirrah Foulkes, Alex Komang, Surya Saputra, John O' Hare, Sarah Treleaven, and Joshua Pandelaki. Companies, embassies, Non-Government Organizations, associations and even individuals come forth to get involved in the various events such as a Balinese dance competition presented by a surf-wear company, an environment exhibition presented by an embassy, a fun cycle presented by a group of individuals, a seminar presented by an association and a parade on the streets presented by an NGO. It was Fiona Wood who did it. The only time his emotions bubbled to the surface was when he spoke of the medical care he had received. "I got up on my first lesson, on the very last wave," he said. That I found, I think, at the time, difficult to deal with. Then 33, he was on an end-of-year soccer trip and standing on the edge of the dance floor at Paddys Bar in Kuta when the first of three bombs went off. Then I was out. I can remember the filthy stench of chloride and a napalm smell. Some were later flown to Australia for surgery or for help with specialist burn treatment. A survivor of the Bali bombings 20 years ago has been tapped as the new boss of State-owned electricity retailer Synergy. In 2008, three men were executed for their role in the Bali bombings. Aris Munandar (aka Sheik Aris) is a Jemaah Islamiyah associate linked to Bashir. Mr Fyfe has nothing but praise for those who helped him; the doctors, nurses, and the prosthetic expert who fitted him with a new leg. And I just did whatever I could. They didn't look evil, they didn't have shark-like eyes. But my instincts fight or flight kicked in and I just started crawling and then I crawled to the front of the club. A report by the United States-Indonesia Society describes the arrest of Amrozi and other suspects.[25]. It was just a bizarre sequence of events, he said. [23][24] A week after the blasts, Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera put to air an audio-cassette purportedly carrying a recorded voice message from Osama Bin Laden saying that the Bali bombings were in retaliation for support of the United States' war on terror and Australia's role in the liberation of East Timor.[5]. This image can be licensed for Personal, Editorial, or Commercial Use.Personal, Editorial, or Commercial Use. Hundreds more people suffered horrific burns and other injuries. An unofficial list of the dead, missing and injured Australians following the bomb blasts in Bali: DEAD 30 Australians are confirmed dead including: NSW Shane Foley, 34 (from the Coogee Beach Dolphins junior rugby league club) Marc Gajardo, 30 (from Cornwall, was living in Byron Bay) Adam Howard, 26 (from Double Bay, member of the Dolphins) So I did take that on board. He also confessed that a fellow leader Riduan Isamuddin, known as Hambali, had provided the funds for the attacks. He was singled out for praise with the award of the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) on 13 June 2005.[14][15]. They assisted in placing IV cannulas and IDCs, as well as offering emotional support, and began transferring patients out to the airport pending arrival of Australian Army medics on a Hercules plane. Then when we entered onto the Jalan Legian, right outside Paddy's Bar, there was hundreds of people Just chaos. The plaques carry the victims' photos, names, and ages; and also details of the event, the design's symbolism, its dedication, and a poem written by the families of the victims. Other Australian victims were honored in a video shown on the stadium's video screens before the game, with the attendees including Melbourne players Steven Febey and Steven Armstrong, who were both injured in the blast, and representatives from five Australian rules football clubs who lost players in the attacks were presented to the crowd. "My leg was killing me," he said. There were many acts of individual heroism. People don't get closure. New Synergy chief executive David Fyfe. There were people the person in a van and a person [who] carried the device in Paddys Bar wearing the item. In line with the return of tourism to Kuta, Kuta Karnival has grown into a tourism promotional event with major coverage from television and newspapers from across the globe. THIOLINA: Suddenly, I met somebody who led me to his car, I don't know who this person is [but] he told me to get in the car He asked who my name was in English. A couple from Adelaide who were holidaying on the island, Jon Mason and doctor Irene Kushelew, were with him in the hospital while he had many operations to save his life. He has held executive roles in operations, commercial sales, asset management, and business development. Senior Constable Timothy Britten and Mr Richard Joyes of Western Australia were both awarded the Cross of Valour for their actions during the course of the day. To know that 202 people died in a single location was definitely sobering. The Pentagon has announced plans to move ahead with a military trial for three men held at Guantnamo Bay who are suspected of involvement in the 2002 Bali bombings.. After an unexplained delay . The way that the device was put to the suspects, the way that we thought the device had been constructed, was almost perfect. I asked him if he knew how many would be dead, not expecting him to know, and he just said 181 and one at another hospital, so 182 so far. And that was it. 12:04pm Oct 12, 2017. "[39] Supreme Court judge Djoko Sarwoko, however, said a "last-minute legal challenge by the relatives of Imam Samudra, Amrozi Nurhasyim and Ali Ghufron will not change or delay the execution." The fountain shuts off and becomes a reflecting pool on 12 October each year. 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We are doing this to improve the experience forour loyalreaders and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. Serious but stable condition. There was only two of us in the pub, which was kind of unheard of on a Saturday night. Two bombs went off in Jalan Legian shortly after 11pm. Editors' Code of Practice. The second lot were bleeding and had their clothes blown off them. The two suicide bombers exploded their devices. Were working to restore it. Albany Advertiser (incl. They saved my life, words are never enough, he said. Ladies that organised the hospital because you know, a lot of the Indonesians couldn't speak English or couldn't speak any other languages I guess I'd probably love nothing better than to see some of these people recognised for the magnificent jobs that they did that night [and] the next day. JONES: Almost everyone involved in the Bali bombings in 2002 [were eventually] linked to the branch of Jemaah islamiah [JI] that was based in Malaysia, not in Indonesia. On 2 September, Bashir was acquitted of treason but convicted of lesser charges and sentenced to a prison term of four years. In 2022 (20 years after the incident), the Australian-Indonesian historical drama Bali 2002, aired on Stan and Nine Network. He also required five litres of blood to replace what he had lost and to keep him alive. An Indonesian-style stone memorial is situated in Allambe Memorial Park at Nerang. You see photos of people walking out, staggering outcarrying people. We laughed and hugged and I said 'I'm gonna grab a drink and then I'll come down and see you at the front there'. The car was in flames. He stopped near the Sari Club, instructed one suicide bomber to put on his explosives vest and the other to arm the vehicle bomb. The 2002 Bali bombings occurred on 12 October 2002 in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali. The door on the driver's seat was open, so I got out from there. "I do remember picking myself up," he said. It tells the story during three different times: the planning a few months before the bombing, its execution in 2002, and the trials in 2003 through the viewpoints of both the victims and the bombers. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories. The pair had been in the Sari Club, which was wrecked by the bigger secondary blast, just two drinks earlier. Its not enough to just heal the skin, we need to heal the whole body and mind. I couldn't really see, my body was covered in blood. The execution caused high tension and sparked clashes in Tenggulan between hundreds of police and supporters. All the other doctors had taken a break. This site is part of Newsquest's audited local newspaper network. As patients were stabilised, the triage plan for who to evacuate first, became the central task. I remember waking up 12 days after Bali no idea what had happened, Mr Fyfe said. He is also on the board of the Fiona Wood Foundation, and as a recipient of the spray on skin technology developed by Professor Fiona Wood and Dr Marie Stoner. Locals and foreigners including many Australians waded through the main street of Jalan Legian, leaving crowded restaurants and pouring into bustling bars. An annual twilight service is held at the site of the memorial on each anniversary of the Bali bombings. The minority judges argued that international human rights documents such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights allowed an exception to not applying retrospective legislation in the prosecution of crimes against humanity. He didn't dwell on the wounds left by the shrapnel that had ripped through him, or the jagged pieces still lodged in his flesh. On 12 October 2005, a story in Australian broadcaster SBS's documentary series Dateline, called "Inside Indonesia's War on Terrorism", argued that the Indonesian military or police may have been involved in executing the attack. CSABI: I remember being put in the back of a ute and I'd been on a sheet of iron. "I felt a massive rush of hot air just past my head when I was on the ground. Indonesian investigators were able to print out a list of calls he had made immediately before, during and after the bombing, as well as the names and telephone numbers in the phone's memory. And I turned around and followed him back into the Sari Club. Engineer David Fyfe was inside Paddy's Bar when the first bomb went off. "I thought 'it's time to get yourself out of here'.". Mr Fyfe, who was 33 at the time of the attack, said he had kept a newspaper cutting from October 15 that listed patients in hospital and had the word critical next to his name. Speaking at a Business News Success and Leadership breakfast this morning, Mr Fyfe recounted the moment the bomb went off as he was on a dancefloor, metres away from the blast in Kuta, in October 2002. The attack killed 202 people (including 88 Australians, 38 Indonesians, 23 Britons, and people of more than 20 other nationalities). I couldn't see I could only see one dot of light in the distance. GLEN MCEWAN, AFP senior liaison officer deployed in Indonesia in 2002:I flew into Bali [that]afternoon due to a people-smuggling matter that I had to attend to as part of my duties. I can only imagine I was thrown quite a few metresbecause when I woke up, I didn't think I was in the same place when that bomb went off. I'm trying to wave people forward and I didn't even know whether I was crawling in a safe direction. The recording did not however claim responsibility for the Bali attack. But the Attorney General's office said on 1 November the execution was "very close. There were a lot of people on the street. CSABI: It's like one of those large, six-foot gas cylinders blowing up right next to you, exploding. About 103 Australians remain unaccounted for including: Debbie Borgia, 45 and daughter Abbey, 13 (from Tempe), Steve Buchan, 47 and his wife Geraldine, 46 (from Chifley), Paul Cronin, 31 (from the Forbes Platypii rugby union club), Billy Hardy, 20 (from Tweed Heads, member of Southport Sharks football team and brother of Big Brother housemate Jessica), Dimmy Kotronakis, 27 and sister Elizabeth, 33 (from Blacktown), Lynette McKeon, 46 and her daughter Marissa, 14 (from Kincumber), Brad Ridley, 32 (from the Forbes Platypii), Greg Sanderson, 24 (from the Forbes Platypii), Charles Van Renen, 26 (Sydney, lived in Hong Kong), Shane Walsh-Till, 32 (from Leeton in the Riverina), Six officials and family involved in the South Sydney Juniors Rugby League Club, Stacey Lee, 30, her husband Justin Lee, 31 and Aaron Lee, 33 (all from Geelong), Matthew Bolwerk, 27 (from Secret Harbour, south of Perth), Jenny and Jane Corteen, 39 (twins from Perth), Dean Gallagher, 19 (from Perth, member of Kingsley football club), Byron Hancock, 22 (from Perth, member of Kingsley football club), Nicole Harrison, 29 (from Mandurah, south of Perth), Gary Nash (from Perth) in Royal Brisbane Hospital, David Ross, 20 (from Perth, member of Kingsley football club), Anthony Stewart, 29 (from Perth, member of Kingsley football club), Jason Stokes, 31 (from Perth, member of Kingsley football club), Jonathon Wade, 21 (from Perth, member of Kingsley football club). 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