THE BALI BOMBINGS - October 12, 2002

LOST HORIZONS

The hopes of a generation of Indonesians were destroyed in the rubble of the Sari Club

Countdown to a bombing

DENPASAR, INDONESIA -- The tiny town of Malimping, in the remote corner of southwestern Java, revolves around the alun-alun, a village square as big as a football field. Symbols of the Indonesian state gather around it: a police station, a school, a health clinic, municipal offices and the telephone exchange. There's also a modest mosque, and Indonesia's red-and-white national flag flutters proudly above.

ALLAH'S ASSASSINS Winner of the 2003 Walkley Award for Asia-Pacific reporting

The Bali bombers were rootless young men recruited from the dusty poverty of a village in West Java - their overseer a worldly West Javanese, burning with Islamic zeal and with the contacts to organise and bankroll their jihad. Eric Ellis retraces their steps as they moved from village to town meeting the fixers, financiers and bombmakers, and finally assembling and detonating the devices that would kill and maim so many in a Kuta Beach tourist precinct.

Bali Bagus

A month after the Bali bombings, Eric Ellis finds life is returning to "normal" on the island

Bali's Blood Wake

An elaborate purification ritual may have exorcised some of Bali's demons, but the killers still to face justice there are monsters on the loose. In Kuta, ERIC ELLIS talks to the policeman heading the investigation and examines the secretive world of 'Indonesia's Arabs."

Bali buyers will play for time

Bali prays for delivery from evil 

Mayor's blisters bear witness to tourism fall

Indonesian police reveal details of Bali bomb suspects

The black marks of a bomb-maker

Trouble in Paradise - Bali Bomb Blasts Indonesia

'Our defense to convince people that doing business in Indonesia is safe is finished.'

Bali's Demons

As well as the lives of many, the nightclub bombs destroyed any lingering illusions that Bali was a tranquil haven somehow isolated from Indonesia's current malaise. Eric Ellis reports from Kuta Beach.

Ground Zero Kuta

As dawn broke on the chaos that was Kuta Beach, Eric Ellis searched for survivors of Australia's worst terrorist outrage

Indonesia detains two over Bali terror attack

Terror in Bali

Blasts get circulation racing

Strangers who saw paradise

Cleansing of foreign evils a `good thing'

Nightmare on dream island