More Bombs in Bali
By Kenneth Conboy
In the past couple of months, there have been two major international conferences on the Indonesian resort island of Bali. Both of these took place without incident.
Less widely reported, however, have been a couple of bombing incidents over the past two months on that same island. During the early morning hours of 5 February, a device exploded in a garage in the provincial capital of Denpasar. Two vehicles were damaged but there were no casualties.
Two days ago (15 February), a small bomb was hurled at a vehicle driving in the same town. The blast left 20 holes in the car and damaged a garage located a few meters behind the vehicle. The two persons in the car were taken to the hospital to be treated for massive burns.
In the first case, the police have said that the device was similar to bombs used by fishermen in nearby East Java. The police have also been quick to insist that the two incidents were probably linked to business disagreements, not terrorism. That said, nobody has been arrested for the 5 February event, and no suspects have been named for the 15 February bombings.