The Australian, US, and many other foreign governments expressed satisfaction with the speed and efficiency with which the Indonesian police and courts dealt with the bombings primary suspects, despite what they characterized as light sentences. Prior to joining Synergy in 2020 as its general manager, commercial, Mr Fyfe was with Western Power for more than 10 years where he was executive manager of operations and acting chief executive. 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. On 8 August, he was found guilty and sentenced to death. "This is how I dealt with mine. [3] A further 209 people were injured. It's difficult to get past it all. Mr Fyfe remembered his relief and joy at being released from RPH, despite Perths summer heat agitating his burns. DECI: People were clapping because they thought there was a party in Paddy's. DE HAART: I was in a music store [making my way down Poppies Lane after helping a friend get home] and all of a sudden there was a dull thud, the lights flickered and went out. Kusitino 'Kossy' Halemai, a Wallis and Futuna-born Australian citizen who was managing the Bounty Hotel in Kuta at the time of the attacks, sheltered survivors in the immediate aftermath of the blasts. Synergy ceo David Fyfe, who was a Bali bombing survivor from 2002. [22], The organization suspected of responsibility for the bombing was Jemaah Islamiyah, an Islamist group allegedly led by radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir. THIOLINA: After [being turned away from one hospital] an ambulance took me to the army hospital in Denpasar. The Mitsubishi L300 van bomb was initially thought to have consisted of C4, a military grade plastic explosive which is difficult to obtain. DECI: When we got [to Sanglah Hospital], it was already so crowded, victims were everywhere. The Australian, US, and many governments expressed its disappointment that the sentence was too short; in the outcome, Bashir was freed 14 June 2006 having served less than 26 months for his conspiracy,[31] and on 21 December 2006, Bashir's conviction was overturned by Indonesia's Supreme Court. Dr Pethick helped transfer them to the nearest clinic and then onto the local hospital. So very early, I decided that I wasn't going to entertain those ideas of a lot of revenge [and] hatred. He said the group had been in Bali for just two days and he and teammate Aaron Cowdery were in Paddys when hell broke loose. On 9 March 2010, Dulmatin, nicknamed "the Genius"believed to be responsible for setting off one of the Bali bombs with a mobile phonewas killed in a shoot-out with Indonesian police in Pamulang, South Tangerang.[6]. Two [other AFP] officers had arrived [that day] and Mick and I met with them in the early evening. NATHAN GREEN, a crime scene investigator with the AFP who was first based in Australia and then deployed to Bali after his honeymoon: There [were] two simultaneous investigations. Reveal sub navigation . 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. ATKINSON: Sanglah Hospital was like a war zone. It was then he discovered his right leg had been removed from below the knee, that he had burns to 50 per cent of his body, and he had many shrapnel wounds. I had this massive hard thump in my chest and I was just knocked out instantly. The Balinese mark their commitment in a nine-day-long event. GREEN: This was an unprecedented event in any Australian law enforcement. [9], A report released in August 2005 by the United States-Indonesia Society (USINDO) described the events as follows:[10]. There were a lot of people on the street. I choose not to live in the past, but to live in the now.. This site is part of Newsquest's audited local newspaper network. My blood pressure just started to plummet and my heart rate had gone through the roof. Mr Fyfe recently returned to Bali for the first time since the bombings. A survivor of the Bali bombings 20 years ago has been tapped as the new boss of State-owned electricity retailer Synergy. ATKINSON:Outside [the hospital], ambulances and trucks were arriving all the time, bringing more bodies. A Gannett Company. The remainder of the explosive material, in my opinion, definitely degraded violently. Synergy chief executive David Fyfe survived the Bali bombings 20 years ago and says the incident has since impacted his role as a leader. Welcome back indeed, Jason McCartney, an inspiration to all. You will be killed just as you kill, and will be bombed just as you bomb. So it enables the translation of the global jihad to a local context. David, from Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire, was in a coma for almost two weeks as doctors battled to save him. THIOLINA F MARAPAUNG,Indonesian survivor andhead of the Bali Bombing Victims' Association, Isana Dewata Foundation: My two friends suggested [we] drive past [Jalan] Legian because it was Saturday night [and we wanted] to check out how Kuta was during night time. My left arm was stuck in the car's door. I just knew I was in trouble. She has travelled with him, along with Mr Cowdery and other former Perth City teammates, to Bali for the 20th anniversary of the bombings. "[42] Despite his carefree demeanor throughout his trial and incarceration, the Australian edition of The Daily Telegraph reported Amrozi was pale-faced and shaking in the moments before his execution. I refer to him as my first angel of the night. It was never in my DNA to give up, anyway. The response to a big new policy last week provides some clues, Young farmer's emotional thanks to heroes who saved her life, Acid spread around Sydney home after stabbing death, 'Take cover, hide': Ukrainian dad describes reaction after helicopter crashes into son's kindergarten, George Floyd's killer appeals murder conviction, Elon Musk auctions Twitter's furniture, an awkward tennis win. CSABI: I've gone unconscious a couple of times and I'm crawling and I remember girls next to me, they were just like flame trees, they're on fire. This website and associated newspapers adhere to the Independent Press Standards Organisation's 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. There will always be small, independent cellssome of whom are not particularly well informed that continue to believe that they have a mission. The University of Western Australia acknowledges that its campus is situated on Noongar land, and that Noongar people remain the spiritual and cultural custodians of their land, and continue to practise their values, languages, beliefs and knowledge. He confessed that visiting the Kuta memorial had provoked tears, which often flowed for others who lost so much in 2002. Being a survivorfor me is a life sentenceEvery time the families get together there's a hole where their sons were or their daughters were or their husbands and then in the last 20 years, there's been so much that'shappened So it's difficult to move on. In 2006, Long Road to Heaven, an Indonesian feature film about the bombings, was released by Kalyana Shira Films. The Bali Bombing memorial at the site of the original Paddy's Pub across the road from the site of the now demolished Sari Club (to the left of this picture). [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. So emergency service and vehicles couldn't enter that area. The second factor that inspired the Bali bombing, which is also critical, is the communal violence that erupted in Indonesia, in Ambon in the Moluccas, and in Poso in central Sulawesi, in 1999 and 2000, where there was Christian, Muslim fighting, and Muslims were dying at Christian hands. DE HAART: We were just getting ready to create havoc, when havoc was created for us. He said he would appeal. In 2011, Mr Fyfe graduated with a UWA Graduate Certificate in Business and is now the CEO of Synergy. I dealt with it. I don't know why you would expect them to look different from a normal human. 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) Listen. 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. I'm not a racist in any shape or form. Join the Business News community for the latest news headlines, straight to your inbox, twice daily. THIOLINA:I had kept the piece of broken glass the doctor took out from my eye. Normally, we would have gone down to Paddy's Bar there but the two officers had only just stepped off the plane, so they didn't want to. I kept everything,all the articles. All of my subsequent deployments were on the disaster victim identification side. On leaving she was quoted as saying "I'm certain he's gone to heaven". You see photos of people walking out, staggering outcarrying people. 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. Together, they weave together the story of the Bali bombings,the single-largest loss of Australian life in an act of terror. David was treated by the staff at Royal Perth hospital under the leadership of Fiona Wood. "It was going poisonous. HAMMING:It wasn't a commercial explosive that was manufactured under strict manufacturing protocols and it certainly wasn't a military explosive that's manufactured to very strict protocols, and tested rigorously. I tried to keep calm and made my way to escape the fire. I remember all I could do was hold my arm blood kept gushing out. It was dark. It happened. At the time, I was in a daze. In 2008, three men were executed for their role in the Bali bombings. It was a homemade explosive that was mixed by people, who quite frankly, had no idea what they were doing. They didn't look evil, they didn't have shark-like eyes. [46] Ma'ruf Amin, deputy chairman of the Indonesian Ulemas Council, the chief body for Islamic clerics in Indonesia said of the men: "They did not die a holy death. Bali bombings: The 28 British victims of the bombers VIEW COMMENTS 11 October 2012 T wenty-eight Britons were killed during the Bali bombings on October 12, 2002: :: Timothy Arnold, 43, a. There would be no dwelling on the terrorists who had committed the atrocity. Your key to local business, news, insights and data. 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. Pastika kept Amrozi's arrest secret for two days. He said the support around him, including from fiancee Joanne Rowan, had been incredible. That was when a van in the street containing the second bomb is believed to have gone off outside the Sari Club. And then I thought 'ohshit, that looks like it's near the Sari Club.'. Mr Fyfe is committed to furthering research to ensure a better quality of life for burns patients. A few seconds later, a massive explosion happened. Mr Fyfe said he needed to understand what had happened to him. The Foundation was represented at the dinner by David Fyfe, Bali bomb survivor, burns victim and a Foundation Non-Executive Director. (Reuters: David Gray PB)ALAN ATKINSON, former ABC journalist and one of the first reporters on the scene: It was Saturday . Amrozi was asleep in the rear of the house. Perth WA 6009 Australia. With a grin, Mr Fyfe said his 14-year-old son Liam, his "little mate", seemed proud of his old man's recovery, and liked to tell the tale. 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. As far as I know, Hambali did not have a source of funds except from Afghanistan. JONES:You don't eradicate terrorist groups completely. inaccuracy or intrusion, then please All the other doctors had taken a break. I tried to get out but couldn't open the left door. The execution caused high tension and sparked clashes in Tenggulan between hundreds of police and supporters. He is in American custody in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Police found receipts for the purchase of chemicals used to make the bombs, as well as a list of expenses incurred in making the bombs. I thought a gas canister or something had exploded. It's quite a challenging thing to do. On 12 October 2010, Australian and Indonesian survivors of the 2002 bombings attended a solemn commemoration service to mark the eighth anniversary of the devastating attacks.[48]. Money is being raised through the Dunn & Lewis Youth Development Foundation.[56][57][58]. He still has some metal shrapnel in his old wounds and has undergone many skin grafts and follow-up surgeries. The Indonesian chief of police, General Da'i Bachtiar said that the bombing was the "worst act of terror in Indonesia's history". He has held executive roles in operations, commercial sales, asset management, and business development. I couldn't see I could only see one dot of light in the distance. [29] He was also stated to have orchestrated numerous Jemaah Islamiyah-related incidents in the past and been one of the executives of said terrorist group.[30]. [1] In addition, Hambali confessed that al-Qaeda had sent him US$30,000 to fund the bombings of the two nightclubs.[2]. Called The Seed, the work is based on the seed and foliage of the Banksia robur, a native plant indigenous to the Shire. Eddie McGuire on Nine Network's television call of McCartney's return after the bombings (North Melbourne vs. Richmond, Round 11, 2003)[49]. I had surgery that night. I felt that I was on the pavement. When she set up the foundation, she named it after one of her old mentors. Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services. Ben Davis, early 20s (from Hobart) in Melbourne's St Vincents Hospital with burns to hands in a stable condition. Many foreign tourists were chatting. And that was it. The two suicide bombers exploded their devices. Mr Fyfes right leg was amputated in the aftermath of the bombings in October 2002 that killed more than 200 people, including 88 Australians. The next thing I remember is waking up in RPH about 12 days later, strapped to a bed in a crucifix position.. She sat me there, gave me water. I wasn't looking at who they were, I just saw human beings that needed help. Were working to restore it. It was very colourful and noisy and warm in Kuta. Another suspect named Zulkarnaen was finally arrested in Lampung on 10 December 2020. The Australian government said it would not ask Indonesia to refrain from using the death penalty. DE HAART:There's no such thing as closure. The pair had been in the Sari Club, which was wrecked by the bigger secondary blast, just two drinks earlier. And thank god, it was true, I felt healthier. DECI: When I woke up my position was under the car's dashboard. General Pastika ordered his men to make the arrest early the next morning, November. Bali bombings hero Fiona Wood: the next frontier in burns treatment Her spray-on skin made her a household name after the Bali bombings. On the fourth anniversary of the bombings Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall unveiled a memorial in London, at the rear of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Main Building, facing St. James's Park. HAMMING: All [the] information that comes through from investigations, and witnesses and so on, becomes critical to start refining the hypothesis and ultimately it became clear that they were, in fact, suicide bombs. 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. [For example], a very high-power, say, military explosive or a lower-gradecommercial explosive or a homemade explosive. On the night of October 12, 2002, thousands of holiday makers from Australia were in Bali's Kuta nightclub district when bomb blasts went off, indiscriminately killing 200 innocent people. Mr Fyfe, 33, said: "I'm at the stage where my prosthetic leg will crack before I do.". Aris Munandar (aka Sheik Aris) is a Jemaah Islamiyah associate linked to Bashir. It was October 12, 2002, and the night was just getting started. [43] For burial, Mukhlas and Amrozi's bodies were flown by helicopter to Tenggulan, Lamongan, East Java, while Imam Samudra's body was flown to Serang, Banten, amid "welcome martyrs" banner displayed at the cemetery. After praying with the crowd, she spent half an hour in the house of the executed man and spoke with his mother. And it was that fatwa from Al-Qaeda that was instrumental in inspiring violence from groups in many different places but including among a faction of JI led by Hambali. He is believed to have assisted the Bali bomber Amrozi in acquiring some of the explosives used in the Bali bombings. Denpasar court official Nengah Sanjaya said the 3-page appeal would be sent to a Cilacap, central Java court. I couldn't really see, my body was covered in blood. The boys were a matter of only five minutes away from the site when the bombs went off, but lifes full of sliding door moments.. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com. We'd eaten at the nightclubs, near the famous Poppieslane, and then we walked along Kuta beach at sunset back to our hotel. The memorial consists of a 1.5-metre marble globe, to represent that people from 21 countries were killed, and has 202 doves carved into it. I met up with JodieCearns I didn't know she'd come back from Europe. So to see that sort of destruction was on another level. Mr Fyfe said Telstras unwavering support for him and his family had been crucial in the early stages of his recovery, particularly in affording him financial security by committing to his employment. But for someone to have been involved in something of that nature, against innocent people [who] were just there on holidays and enjoying a good time, for them to just look like anyone else that I'd walk past in Bali, it was really challenging to deal with. Editors' Code of Practice. Philippine intelligence considers Munandar to be associated with Mohammad Abdullah Sughayer, a Saudi national Abu Sayyaf Group in southern Philippines. The 2002 Bali bombings occurred on 12 October 2002 in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali. Amrozi, Idris and Ali Imron had simply walked into a dealership and purchased a new Yamaha motorbike, after asking how much they could re-sell it for if they returned it in a few days. But what a moment this is, for not only Australia, not only for AFL football, but for the free world as well. 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. He wore compression garments and protective gloves as well as the numbers "88" and "202" on his jersey, signifying the Australian and total numbers of victims, while many in the crowd held up signs saying "Bali 88/202". It was more than anything else, the desire to show Westerners that no-one was safe anywhere. The doctors suspected I would be off work for 12 months. 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 . The car bomb explosion left a one metre deep crater.[8]. So we were rotating people through there to upskill, but also to minimise the impact on the workforce. If you are dissatisfied with the response provided you can Mr Fyfe, now the chief executive of Synergy, was just metres from the suicide bomber who detonated his bomb inside Paddy's Bar at the start of the 2002 Bali attack. Christine Anu sang The Lighthouse by toxtwo at the opening ceremony. A steady line of cars passed by, offeringpassengers a glimpse into Bali's party scene from the safety of their tinted windows. We are lucky at The Herald. 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. They were friendly, approachable, people. They were moved to isolation cells, and execution spots were ready on the Nusakambangan island prison where they were being held. 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 Or that mere moments later, a second, bigger bomb would go off in a van across the road,outside the Sari Club. That has not held him back; quite the contrary. GREEN: This was the largest bombing I've ever attended, even today It was huge. GREEN: On my first rotation over there, I was assisting on the criminal side of the investigation. GP Dr Tony Pethick MBBS 89, walked from his hotel towards the aftermath and discovered people in dire need of urgent first aid treatment. "I just had one day at home, when I was sitting on my couch. There were people at the hospital, they were buying water and giving people water and they had no medicines left, so they were tipping water over people's wounds. "I remember sitting down and lying back and feeling my legs. CSABI: I can't understand what goes through your mind there except when I woke up, I was just looking down. [When I got] to the army hospital I could hear the noise of a lot of people. Aussies to mark bomb anniversary in Bali, Australian Times, 12 October 2010. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, " 'Bin Laden' voices new threat to Australia, "Bali bomber mastermind Dulmatin killed in shoot-out", "Collective memory and crisis: The 2002 Bali bombing, national heroic archetypes and the counter-narrative of cosmopolitan nationalism", Aspects of forensic responses to the Bali bombings, "Bali bombings: Full list of victims' names", Bali bombings: Full list of victims' names | SBS News. In Perth, David Fyfe surfs with a prosthetic leg. You're in Bali, you don't think it's going to be a terrorist or even a bomb. 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). Additional photography courtesy of Reuters, AP and Facebook. There was just bodies lying around on the ground People are staggering helping other people stagger out. leader and business. We need to be prepared for smaller scale accidents as well as the next disaster. He also confessed that a fellow leader Riduan Isamuddin, known as Hambali, had provided the funds for the attacks. Mr Fyfe has since emerged as a passionate advocate of RPH and Professor Woods Fiona Wood Foundation, where he has been a board member since 2013. Patek is a suspect in other bombings as well as the one in Bali. And likewise, when they were following the instructions on how to build the bomb in the van, how to put the explosives in, how to connect the initiation system and how to construct the back of the van, the way it was constructed was not ideal, I guess, is the best word I'm prepared to use. "[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." heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment. I remember them trying to keep us cool and trying to attend to our wounds and I had my first amputation in Bali on that left leg above my ankle and on my right foot, on my toes. That can only be in a war and Indonesia is not at war."[47]. He shies away from giving advice to others facing hardship. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. The rooms were full of patients, the staff [were] completely overworked, people had horrific injuries and burns, many of whom would probably die. I just started recognising the severity of it. I was informed that might have been six or seven [minutes] after the blast. "For me it was an easy way out. If you need support, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14. I grabbed notebooks and pens and phone and water. 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. I heard someone say that her eye lens are broken and they must be operated on tonight. The blasts at two bars packed with tourists on the holiday island killed 202 people from 21 nations in Indonesia's deadliest militant attack. It's confronting. A granite cube serves as a memorial in the Eastern Formal Gardens of Parliament House. David was on a trip with his football team when the devices exploded in the tourist district of Kuta, killing 202 people. 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. According to Greg Barton's account, Amrozi did not attempt to escape, but laughed instead, later exclaiming, "Gosh, you guys are very clever, how did you find me?" David Ure was on his first trip overseas when he became one of the hundreds of tourists caught up in the 2002 Bali bombings. JONES:[The terrorists]were more inspired by two things [in the Bali bombing attack]. "Everybody's situation is their situation," Mr Fyfe said. Local chief prosecutor Muhammad Yamin said they would be "executed simultaneously" but at different locations.[40]. Mr Fyfe staggered outside. But the Attorney General's office said on 1 November the execution was "very close. It was months after the October 2002 terror attacks, when he was finally discharged from hospital and returned to his Perth home, that the Scottish migrant sat on his couch and did something he had never done before and would never do again. When he was in RPH, he made a decision not to expend energy on anything other than getting well. 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. There were people bleeding everywhere, or people had their clothes blown off and they're trying to jump over walls to get out. I never did any interviews with journalists, Inever wanted to. Then, according to people, I ran away from the site. Then I'd gone and fallen into that crater in the front and that's when an off duty soldier, Anthony McKay, came to my aid. 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