2002 Bali bombings

2002 Bali bombings
Part of terrorism in Indonesia
Aftermath of the bombings in Kuta
2002 Bali bombings is located in Badung Regency
2002 Bali bombings
2002 Bali bombings (Badung Regency)
2002 Bali bombings is located in Bali
2002 Bali bombings
2002 Bali bombings (Bali)
2002 Bali bombings is located in Indonesia
2002 Bali bombings
2002 Bali bombings (Indonesia)
Location in Badung Regency, Bali and Indonesia
LocationKuta, Bali, Indonesia
Coordinates8°43′02″S 115°10′27″E / 8.71722°S 115.17417°E / -8.71722; 115.17417
Date12 October 2002 (2002-10-12)
11:05 p.m. Central Indonesia Standard Time (UTC+08:00)
TargetTwo nightclubs (Paddy's Pub and Sari Club) with Western clientele, U.S. Consular office
Attack type
Suicide bombing, car bombing
WeaponsIEDs
Deaths204 (including both bombers)
Injured209
PerpetratorsJemaah Islamiyah
Al-Qaeda[1]
MotiveRetaliation for United States' support of war on terror and Australia's role in the liberation of East Timor

A series of bombings occurred on 12 October 2002 in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali. The attack killed 202 people (including 88 Australians, 38 Indonesians, 23 Britons, and people of more than 20 other nationalities).[2] A further 209 people were injured.[3] The Indonesian chief of police, General Da'i Bachtiar said that the bombing was the "worst act of terror in Indonesia's history".

Various members of Jemaah Islamiyah (also abbreviated JI), a violent Islamist group, were convicted in relation to the bombings, including three individuals who were sentenced to death. The attack involved the detonation of three bombs: a backpack-mounted device carried by a suicide bomber; a large car bomb, both of which were detonated in or near popular nightclubs in Kuta; and a third much smaller device detonated outside the United States consulate in Denpasar, causing only minor damage.

On 9 November 2005, one of top JI's bomb maker and Malaysian former lecturer Azahari Husin was killed in a police raid in Batu, East Java. Azahari was believed to be the technical mastermind behind the Bali bombings and several bomb attacks in Indonesia.[4] Three years later, 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. On 9 March 2010, Dulmatin, nicknamed "the Genius"—believed to be responsible for setting off one of the Bali bombs with a mobile phone—was killed in a shoot-out with Indonesian police in Pamulang, South Tangerang.[5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference rulit.net2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Bali death toll set at 202". BBC News. 19 February 2003. Retrieved 14 July 2010.
  3. ^ "The Sydney Morning Herald". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  4. ^ "'Bali bomb maker' believed dead". BBC News. 10 November 2005. Retrieved 25 May 2010.
  5. ^ "Bali bomber mastermind Dulmatin killed in shoot-out". 9 March 2010. Archived from the original on 14 June 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2011.

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