I couldn't tell you if they are male or female, child or whatever. I heard someone say that her eye lens are broken and they must be operated on tonight. THIOLINA: After [being turned away from one hospital] an ambulance took me to the army hospital in Denpasar. They smiled, they laughed, they were just normal people. Warning: This article contains graphic accounts of the Balibombings and the immediate aftermath of the scene in Kuta Beach, including descriptions of injured people and the dead. So I guess it was a vindication of the investigation and the intelligence effort that had gone in that far into the investigation that we've actually got it right. To know that 202 people died in a single location was definitely sobering. Data & Insights is Western Australia's most accurate and comprehensive business listings and searchable database. People [were] staggering out of that. Vij triaged patients according to the severity of their injuries to prioritize their transfer. Serious but stable condition. He said he would appeal. It was very colourful and noisy and warm in Kuta. The work is by sculptor Chris Bennetts and Ishi Buki Sandstone Sculpture. When Matthew died suddenly, there were only old photos to remember him. Mr Fyfe, 33, said: "I'm at the stage where my prosthetic leg will crack before I do.". Transaction records, directors wealth, remuneration data and network activity. 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. Idris then left the second bomber, who had only learned to drive in a straight line, to drive the minivan the short distance to the Sari Club. It's a night those who survived will never forget, Jacinda Ardern has announced she will not be seeking re-election and her term as New Zealand's prime minister will end February 7, Keep up with the latest ASX and business news, For the latestflood and weather warnings, search onABC Emergency, Keep across all the live scores and results from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park. Mr Fyfe has no memory of any of it. But keeping his path clear of any victims mentality has been the key to surging positively into his new lifes chapter. I didn't receive help right away Finally a nurse brought me a wheelchair and told me to sit [and] she wheeled me inside. [55], South of Sydney, in the town of Ulladulla, a large youth centre is being built as a memorial to Craig Dunn and Danny Lewis, two local victims of the bombings. When the Australian Federal Policed arrived in Bali just days after the 2002 bombings took the lives of . There were many acts of individual heroism. The service is attended by survivors of the 2002 rugby tour to Bali, friends and family of those who lost their lives, as well as current and past players of the club. The next thing I remember is waking up in RPH about 12 days later, strapped to a bed in a crucifix position.. Power 500 is a catalogue of Western Australia's most influential business leaders across the state's major industries. Synergy chief executive David Fyfe survived the Bali bombings 20 years ago and says the incident has since impacted his role as a leader. Two [other AFP] officers had arrived [that day] and Mick and I met with them in the early evening. An audio-cassette purportedly carrying a recorded voice message from Osama bin Laden stated that the Bali bombings were in direct retaliation for support of the United States' War on Terror and Australia's role in the liberation of East Timor. We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments. Secondary charges in this indictment accused him of involvement in the Bali bombing, the first time he faced charges in relation to this attack. In 2011, Mr Fyfe graduated with a UWA Graduate Certificate in Business and is now the CEO of Synergy. That's the last thing I remember.". 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. Jemaah Islamiah was a splinter group of an old Indonesian insurgency that was committed to establishing an Islamic State in Indonesia. 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. It was a typical Saturday nightin Bali and the Kuta Beach tourist strip was heaving with people. There were so many people injured by the explosion that some of the injured had to be placed in hotel pools near the explosion site to ease the pain of their burns. Mr Fyfe said he needed to understand what had happened to him. 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. David Ure was on his first trip overseas when he became one of the hundreds of tourists caught up in the 2002 Bali bombings. 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. Two decades on, Fiona Wood is still exploring revolutionary burns treatments - including the role of the mind in recovery. It is the work of the artist Gary Breeze and the sculptor Martin Cook.[59]. ALAN ATKINSON, former ABC journalist and one of the first reporters on the scene: It was Saturday evening. And then I'd been informed we were being taken toSanglah Hospital. Now the expat has recalled the moment he was blown up in a documentary for Australian television. Following this decision, charges related to the bombings against Idris, who had confessed to participating in the attacks to the police and court, were dismissed. And that was it. It happened. 'Help, help.' She sat me there, gave me water. The second lot were bleeding and had their clothes blown off them. The 20 year anniversary is being marked in several ways, Mr Fyfe and Professor Wood are speaking together at the upcoming Business News breakfast on The Path of Resilience, and author and journalist Sue Williams has released a biography of Professor Woods story, named Under Her Skin, with proceeds directed to the Fiona Wood Foundation. I told the family I'd be in touch and I [left]. 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. The cabinets, each containing a potassium chlorate, aluminum powder, sulfur mixture with a TNT booster, was connected by 150 metres (490ft) of PETN-filled detonating cord. I couldn't really see, my body was covered in blood. On arrival, the army medical team, which included intensivists and a surgeon, furthered the triage process, performed emergency escharotomies and administered much needed analgesia. The Extra) Augusta-Margaret River Times A repeated tragedy in Bali in 2005 did not reduce the Kuta community's determination to carry out this annual event. Mr Fyfe remembered his relief and joy at being released from RPH, despite Perths summer heat agitating his burns. 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. I remember all I could do was hold my arm blood kept gushing out. [7] Twenty seconds later, a second and much more powerful car bomb hidden inside a white Mitsubishi van was detonated by another suicide bomber outside the Sari Club, a renowned open-air thatch-roof bar located opposite Paddy's Pub. Now, I'm about 120 kilos. 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. I'm not a racist in any shape or form. I never saw her again. David Fyfe didn't cry when the nurses told him they had amputated his right leg. On 14 October, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1438 condemning the attack as a threat to international peace and security. 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. DECI: When I woke up my position was under the car's dashboard. GP Dr Tony Pethick MBBS 89, walked from his hotel towards the aftermath and discovered people in dire need of urgent first aid treatment. A remembrance garden was constructed at the International School Ho Chi Minh City commemorating teachers from that school who were killed in the bombings. [7], Damage to the densely populated residential and commercial district was immense, destroying neighbouring buildings and shattering windows several blocks away. He was singled out for praise with the award of the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) on 13 June 2005.[14][15]. 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 looked to the left where the Sari Club was, and it was just absolute chaos. My head's telling me I'm doing the right thing, but my heart is giving it to me saying 'oh, you're a coward'I'm still struggling to live with that decision20 years [on]. "My leg was killing me," he said. A bronze plaque lists the names of the 88 Australians who died in the bombings. 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'. Professor Wood hopes this legacy will ensure that burns research continues in Western Australia long after she retires. ATKINSON:Outside [the hospital], ambulances and trucks were arriving all the time, bringing more bodies. The Cross of Valour is the highest civilian honor and is equivalent to the Victoria Cross for Australia which is the highest military honor. Synergy ceo David Fyfe, who was a Bali bombing survivor from 2002. I tried to open the car door on the left side, but I couldn't do it I kept trying. I accepted it and owned it. He circled the word to give him perspective during stressful times in his life since. The specific charges against Bashir related to a series of church bombings on Christmas Eve in 2000, and to a plot to bomb United States and other Western interests in Singapore. There was nobody else there, and it was at that moment I thought 'right, deal with it'.". This sculpture of pink sandstone is the centrepiece of the memorial. 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. View the profiles of people named David Fyfe. That I found, I think, at the time, difficult to deal with. Then I was out. Ihad some counselling sessions up there and it did make sensethat what had happened to me was a tragic thing, but it's something that I could rebuild on. But I'm getting my life back. On leaving she was quoted as saying "I'm certain he's gone to heaven". The Australian ambassador and Indonesian officials attended the ceremony. Two plaques are set into the granite surrounding the pond. HP10 9TY. 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. And they [applied tourniquets] I'd looked down at [my] leg and I looked at my foot. It was, give yourself a slap in the face and move on. 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. I've never smelled that before. And that will help you determine what the likely category of explosives were. He has a proven track record of delivering customer-focused business strategies and achieving success in the two major government trading enterprises in the energy sector, Mr Johnston said. The Bali Peace Park Association offered the equivalent of $350,000 for the land when it appeared it could be used only for a park, said the group's chairman, David Napoli. 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. "I just kept setting myself small goals," he said. I had been exposed to dead people before as part of my duty, but never more than sort of two or three [at] a time. So we believe, and I still hold that, of the 1,000 or so kilograms of explosives [used], around 500kg or thereabouts, actually detonated. 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]. Hundreds more people suffered horrific burns and other injuries. [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. A memorial which lists the victims of the bombings from Western Australia was opened on the first anniversary, and is situated on the ridge of Mount Eliza in Kings Park, overlooking the city. If you have a complaint about the editorial content which relates to The rooms were full of patients, the staff [were] completely overworked, people had horrific injuries and burns, many of whom would probably die. When he woke from an induced coma in Royal Perth Hospital 13 days later, the nurses told him, his right leg had been amputated just below the knee. We went to investigate [the hotel first]and then worked our way towards what ended up being 'Ground Zero'. In the past, the journalists job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Get the news you want delivered to your inbox. David Fyfe was in a bar when three terrorist bombs rocked the holiday resort in October 2002. It was more than anything else, the desire to show Westerners that no-one was safe anywhere. He was severely injured and received significant burns. And what's incredible is [I no longer fear]traffic jams. GREEN: This was an unprecedented event in any Australian law enforcement. At the time, I was in a daze. This will be the first year that his oldest brother, Trent, 41, has been to Bali since the bombing. It's difficult to get past it all. Welcome back indeed, Jason McCartney, an inspiration to all. Ben Davis, early 20s (from Hobart) in Melbourne's St Vincents Hospital with burns to hands in a stable condition. An off duty Australian serviceman assisted in identifying where all Australian and foreign casualties were located in the sprawling hospital wards. Opening Australia's eyes to burns injuries, Professor Wood, together with her team at Royal Perth Hospital, helped save 28 patients using her innovative technique known as "spray on skin". 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. Get notifications in MyBN when activity occurs. A memorial to seven residents of Sutherland Shire who were victims is at Cronulla. Facebook gives people the power to share. 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. And, on the right-hand side, Paddy's Bar was in flames. Another suspect named Zulkarnaen was finally arrested in Lampung on 10 December 2020. The remainder of the explosive material, in my opinion, definitely degraded violently. He confessed that visiting the Kuta memorial had provoked tears, which often flowed for others who lost so much in 2002. Blatantly lied to: Clarkes ex responds to cheating drama, New photos reveal damage to Great Northern Highway, Nepal finds all but one after deadly crash, Ukrainian minister among 17 killed in chopper crash at kindy, 14 dead after helicopter crashes into Kyiv childcare. Locals and foreigners including many Australians waded through the main street of Jalan Legian, leaving crowded restaurants and pouring into bustling bars. Then when we entered onto the Jalan Legian, right outside Paddy's Bar, there was hundreds of people Just chaos. As far as I know, Hambali did not have a source of funds except from Afghanistan. The bombings were an act of terrorism carried out by operatives from Jemaah Islamiah (JI), a South-East Asian group inspired by and linked to Al Qaeda. [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]. The local Sanglah Hospital was ill-equipped to deal with the scale of the disaster and was overwhelmed with the number of injured, particularly burn victims. CSABI: I remember being put in the back of a ute and I'd been on a sheet of iron. Jodie Cearns' flat mate), Julian Burton, 29 (from Sturt Football club) in Royal Adelaide Hospital, burns. The Constitutional Court is a relatively new body, created after the fall of Suharto, and this decision was one of the first to overrule the constitutionality of the government's application of a law. ERIK DE HAART, Australia survivor and member of the Coogee Dolphinsrugby league club: I was sharing a room with Shane Foley and Gerard Yeo and we got [to the hotel] about 4pm. He managed to crawl from the wreckage, despite suffering 50% burns, straight into another blast. Clint Thompson Trent Thompson But ultimately, it perhaps wasn't as good as it could have been. The 2002 Bali bombings occurred on 12 October 2002 in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali. [3] A further 209 people were injured. Catch up with The Loop, Is there a safe limit of alcohol you can drink? We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse. I couldn't see anything, so I could only feel with my hands. Many of the injured were forced to be flown extreme distances to Darwin (1,800km or 1,100mi) and Perth (2,600km or 1,600mi) for specialist burn treatment. He is also now a long-serving board member for the Fiona Wood Foundation, giving it some crucial understanding from a former patient. 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. That hand took me out and put me down. 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. In April 2003, Indonesian authorities charged Abu Bakar Bashir (also rendered "Ba'asyir"), the alleged spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, with treason. I met up with JodieCearns I didn't know she'd come back from Europe. So I did the only thing I could do and that was to crawl away from the heat. Abu Bakar Bashir, the doyen of JI, is free, jailed then cleared of any involvement in the Bali atrocity. On 15 October 2004, he was arrested by the Indonesian authorities and charged with involvement in another bomb attack, which killed 14 people at the J. W. Marriott hotel in Jakarta on 5 August 2003. 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). The Indonesian chief of police, General Da'i Bachtiar said that the bombing was the "worst act of terror in Indonesia's history". Another participant in the bombing, Imam Samudra, was sentenced to death on 10 September. 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. And they were screaming out for help. 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. Suddenly the lights went off. 35 Stirling Highway Credit: Supplied A survivor of the Bali bombings 20 years ago has been tapped as the new boss of State-owned electricity retailer Synergy. David Fyfe came close to losing his life in the Bali bombings and still carries major physical scars. But I can tell you at 25 years old, sitting three or four feet away from one of the Bali bombers there's a couple of them, but there was one at the time hearing them talk quite normally about their role in the investigation or their points on our design of the bomb and how we thought it had functioned was one of the most surreal things I've ever experienced. It was reportedly packed with human excrement. The door on the driver's seat was open, so I got out from there. al-Qaeda See all related content 2002 Bali Bombings, terrorist attack involving the detonation of three bombs on the Indonesian island of Bali on October 11, 2002, that killed 202 people. This image can be licensed for Personal, Editorial, or Commercial Use.Personal, Editorial, or Commercial Use. 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. Not quite ready to subscribe? There are also some graffiti memorials in memory of the dead. DE HAART: People wandering around, people in a state of shock. 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. 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 was back part-time, on crutches, in five months.". 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. 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. I didn't know what happened to my face, to my body, but I tried to call for help. Listen. 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. (Reuters: David Gray PB)ALAN ATKINSON, former ABC journalist and one of the first reporters on the scene: It was Saturday . You can make a complaint by using the report this post link . We were very keen to observe the area surrounding the scene, at some distance, because the way explosives work, they have a very characteristic signature of damage. Or that a third bomb would detonate about 45 seconds later nearthe US consulate. Patek is a suspect in other bombings as well as the one in Bali. Others involved in planning or carrying out the plot have been sentenced to time in prison or have died in the years since the bombing. [36], The Denpasar District Court, on 3 November, accepted a reprieve motion to reconsider the death sentences. David Fyfe has over 20 years of experience across the energy and telecommunications industries. Cookies help us improve your website experience. He reasoned it was a move in the wrong direction. In this oral history, we hear from Australian and Balinese survivors,former and current Australian Federal Police officers, a journalist and a terrorism expert. I never did any interviews with journalists, Inever wanted to. Umar Patek was finally arrested in Abbottabad, Pakistan in early 2011. The monument is well-maintained and illuminated at night. So we [went to] a restaurant bar about 400 metres [away], just at the top end of Jalan Legian. The dedication included a Balinese Hindu ceremony and the opportunity for mourners to lay flowers and other offerings. And then, therefore, that can lead to what group was ultimately responsible, what terrorist group was responsible for the bomb itself. Broadcast Tue 3 Jul 2018 at 12:40pm. All the pictures too I burnt them all. There are 88 jets in the fountain; at night, there are lights representing all those who died. [33][34][35] On 25 October 2008, Communications and Information Minister asked the Indonesian media to stop calling the three "heroes". David Fyfe is linked to 15 organisations which are included in 3 lists - Charitable Organisations, Utilities and Public Infrastructure and State Government Businesses. MCEWAN: [From the restaurant] we saw an inferno in the distance. The largest group among those killed were tourists from Australia with 88 fatalities. After a long rehabilitation process, McCartney returned for a single AFL match: North Melbourne vs. Richmond at Docklands Stadium in Melbourne on 6 June 2003. The Foundation was represented at the dinner by David Fyfe, Bali bomb survivor, burns victim and a Foundation Non-Executive Director. His remarkable resilience meant that he was determined to get the most out of life, despite his injuries. My left arm was stuck in the car's door. [4] A lot of the state jurisdictions have experience in smaller disaster victim identification investigations, but no-one had ever done anything of this sort of scale. You see photos of people walking out, staggering outcarrying people. At home in Virginia Beach, Creecy's mother, June Robbins, awoke feeling blue that same morning. So it enables the translation of the global jihad to a local context. pleased to announce the appointment of Mr David Fyfe as an Independent Non-Executive Director. You can imagine whatever hell is like, it must be something like that. [28] The U.S. government had offered a US$1million reward for his arrest. And as soon as she (Professor Wood) walked into the room, I felt better. He was initially not charged over the Bali attack, although he was frequently accused of being the instigator or inspirer of the attack. Twenty years since the Bali Bombings is a time of reflection for people in the WA community who were directly impacted by the horrific events of October 2002, including members of the UWA community. Balinese boys were hanging off the tree branches to one side, watching. I felt that I was on the pavement. And my condition was not good. After praying with the crowd, she spent half an hour in the house of the executed man and spoke with his mother. Personally, I was angry that these people that we were talking to were the alleged perpetrators of this terrible, terrible crime. I've got my life back. One was detonated by a suicide bomber inside Paddy's Bar and seconds later, another bomb was set off in a car outside the Sari Club. They were given some instructions on how to mix the components of the explosive and they did the best they could, I guess. I got up on my first lesson, on the very last wave.". Angela Golotta, 19 (from Tea Tree Gully, was on holidays with her parents). One Melburnian survivor of the bombings was North Melbourne AFL player Jason McCartney. There's an outward-going lovingness from the Balinese people that everyone who's met them appreciates. Having moved to Perth from his Scottish home in 1992, he was a lower-level manager with Telstra at the time of the bombings and was on an end-of-season trip to Bali with teammates from the Perth City Soccer Club. When she set up the foundation, she named it after one of her old mentors. 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