INDONESIA: THOUSANDS OF BALINESE HOLD MEMORIAL SERVICE AT SITE OF OCTOBER'S BOMB ATTACKS

Record ID: 646996

  • Title: INDONESIA: THOUSANDS OF BALINESE HOLD MEMORIAL SERVICE AT SITE OF OCTOBER'S BOMB ATTACKS
  • Date: 15th November 2002
  • Summary: KUTA, BALI, INDONESIA (NOVEMBER 15, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE OF SITE 0.05 2. VARIOUS OF BALINESE MEN PREPARING WATER FOR CEREMONY (2 SHOTS) 0.13 3. VARIOUS OF TRADITIONAL GAMELAN ORCHESTRA (2 SHOTS) 0.21 4. SV/SCU: HINDU PRIEST STARTING RITUAL (2 SHOTS) 0.29 5. VARIOUS OF BALINESE MEN PRAYING (3 SHOTS) 0.41 6. SV: WIFE OF VICTIM BEING INTERVIEWED 0.45 7. CU: PHOTOGRAPH OF VICTIM 0.48 8. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Bahasa Indonesia) WIFE OF VICTIM "I am so sad, I always remember my husband everytime I come here. It was happened right in here." 1.00 9. WIDE OF RELATIVES AT SITE DURING CEREMONY 1.05 10. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) WOMAN SAYING: "Our reasons for being here is to show the rest of the world, together with the people being here that we are not afraid of those stupid terrorists. That's why we're here." 1.16 11. SV: BALINESE WOMEN WALKING 1.22 12. WIDE OF SEASIDE CEREMONY 1.26 13. MV: PRIESTS PRAYING 1.35 14. SV'S: MORE OF BALINESE MEN OFFERING/ SPRINKLING (2 SHOTS) 1.45 15. WS/CU: BALINESE PRAYING (2 SHOTS) 1.57 16. SV: BALINESE MAN WITH MASK CASTING EVIL SPIRITS (2 SHOTS) 2.08 17. VARIOUS: MORE OF BALINESE MEN AND WOMEN PRAYING ON THE SIDE OF THE BEACH (5 SHOTS) 2.34 18. VARIOUS OF BALINESE MEN BLESSING CASTING WATER TO BOATS (6 SHOTS) 3.11 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 30th November 2002 12:00
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  • Location: KUTA, BALI, INDONESIA
  • Country: Indonesia
  • Reuters ID: LVAAV9O1K2AWDWFRJAZL1HJ1K94Z
  • Story Text: Balinese, hoping to rid Indonesia's famous resort island of
    evil, have held an elaborate ceremony at the site of
    last month's bomb attacks.


    Thousands of religious leaders and ordinary people from
    all corners of the predominantly Hindu island and foreign
    families of victims filed into the once throbbing tourist
    district on Friday (November 15), bearing offerings and
    burning incense.

    Bali Tourism Authority Director I Gde Pitana said he
    expected more than 5,000 people to attend the ceremonies --
    which officials said was an auspicious day in the Balinese
    Hindu calendar marking the first full moon of the month.

    While much of the rest of the vast Muslim nation has been
    convulsed by violence through much of its modern history, Bali
    has existed as an enchanted island of calm, offering visitors
    great beaches and a vibrant and colourful culture.

    All that changed when bombs ripped apart the Sari Club and
    Paddy's Irish Pub on the Kuta Beach strip on October 12,
    killing more than 180 people, most of them foreign tourists,
    and leaving Bali's vital tourist industry in the rubble.

    The area has become a shrine to the dead, where
    photographs of the victims, some of their personal belongings
    and piles of wreaths have been placed.

    Every day scores of residents, business people and a
    trickle of foreign tourists visit the site, where until about
    a week ago forensic experts were sifting through debris for
    evidence that might lead them to the perpetrators.

    Police have made headway in their hunt for those
    responsible, catching one man, Amrozi, who has confessed to
    involvement in the blasts, and the naming of two of his
    brothers as suspects.

    The world's most populous Muslim nation has been under
    enormous international pressure to make inroads in the
    investigation of the attack, and the most devastating since
    the September 11, 2002 attacks on New York and Washington.


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