The Scot said: "My fiancee Simone urged me to give it a try. The SCC also maintains a permanent memorial to the players it lost inside the club's main lounge. The final death toll was 202, mainly comprising Western tourists and holiday-makers in their 20s and 30s who were in or near Paddy's Pub or the Sari Club, but also including many Balinese Indonesians working or living nearby, or simply passing by. Two hundred and two people died in the Bali bombings. Engineer David Fyfe was inside Paddy's Bar when the first bomb went off. Mr Fyfe has no memory of any of it. Two bombs ripped through the Kuta area of the Indonesian tourist island of Bali on 12 October 2002, leaving 202 people dead. Synergy chief executive David Fyfe survived the Bali bombings 20 years ago and says the incident has since impacted his role as a leader. The next thing I remember is waking up in RPH about 12 days later, strapped to a bed in a crucifix position.. Reuters:Darren Whiteside DW/JS/File photo, Aviation industry awaits answers why Qantas issued 'unusual' mayday alert, New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern says she will not seek re-election, Teenage boys charged over alleged Tara shooting to face court today, Are the climate wars really over? Then this lady took my details, I just said 'I'm right, you can help someone else'. So we believe, and I still hold that, of the 1,000 or so kilograms of explosives [used], around 500kg or thereabouts, actually detonated. DECI: When I woke up my position was under the car's dashboard. Amrozi was asleep in the rear of the house. She basically turned around and took my leg off.". The rooms were full of patients, the staff [were] completely overworked, people had horrific injuries and burns, many of whom would probably die. The company also provided significant financial support for RPH. So I dragged myself out knowing I had to get to work. THIOLINA: Suddenly, I felt there was a really big hand taking me out of the car I'm not sure where I was taken out from, whether from the car's door or the window. She was trying to find me a vehicle to take me to the hospital. 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. "[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. West Australian Newspapers Limited 2023. [4] Aris Munandar (aka Sheik Aris) is a Jemaah Islamiyah associate linked to Bashir. I told the family I'd be in touch and I [left]. Mr Fyfe, now the chief executive of Synergy, was just metres from the suicide bomber who detonated his bomb inside Paddys Bar at the start of the 2002 Bali attack. SHANE HAMMING,an explosives specialist with the AFP's Australian bomb data centrewho was sent to Bali: I first heard about [the bombing] on the news on the Sunday, I think. 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. He confessed that visiting the Kuta memorial had provoked tears, which often flowed for others who lost so much in 2002. Laura Shuttleworth has married. There would be no dwelling on the terrorists who had committed the atrocity. 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. I raced outside as did everyone who was in the club to see what was going on. The attack killed 202 people (including 88 Australians, 38 Indonesians, 23 Britons, and people of more than 20 other nationalities). My left leg, it was at right angles, and my right foot, my toes were missing. 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. The memorial is made of intricately carved stone, set with a large marble plaque, which bears the names and nationalities of each of those killed. I remember waking up 12 days after Bali no idea what had happened, Mr Fyfe said. 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. David Fyfe was in a bar when three terrorist bombs rocked the holiday resort in October 2002. Mr Fyfe, 33, said: "I'm at the stage where my prosthetic leg will crack before I do.". It was his last memory before waking up in Royal Perth Hospital 12 days later. To see the data you will need to Subscribe. The scale of the disaster meant that the Indonesian government quickly made an exception to allow foreign doctors to help at the hospital. But my instincts fight or flight kicked in and I just started crawling and then I crawled to the front of the club. Ali Ghufron, alias Mukhlas, told police that he was the head of one of Jemaah Islamiyah's four cells and had ordered the Bali bombings. This is the first time I [have done] an interview. Credit: Supplied A survivor of the Bali bombings 20 years ago has been tapped as the new boss of State-owned electricity retailer Synergy. She sat me there, gave me water. 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. Mr Fyfe staggered outside. A couple from Adelaide who were holidaying on the island, Jon Mason and doctor Irene Kushelew, were with him in the hospital while he had many operations to save his life. It stars Raelee Hill, Mirrah Foulkes, Alex Komang, Surya Saputra, John O' Hare, Sarah Treleaven, and Joshua Pandelaki. ANDREW CSABI, Australian survivor: At 10:30pm, we decided to go into the Sari Club. The whole nightclub was engulfed in flames. But what a moment this is, for not only Australia, not only for AFL football, but for the free world as well. Now 43, he exercises fanatically, and can leg press 120kg. In the past, the journalists job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. The only time his emotions bubbled to the surface was when he spoke of the medical care he had received. They didn't look evil, they didn't have shark-like eyes. David Fyfe was very nearly number 203. He also confessed that a fellow leader Riduan Isamuddin, known as Hambali, had provided the funds for the attacks. If you need support, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14. 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. 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. Denpasar court official Nengah Sanjaya said the 3-page appeal would be sent to a Cilacap, central Java court. The remainder of the explosive material, in my opinion, definitely degraded violently. [It] was packed with people and security at the front gates, just as normal. 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. I turned around the corner. The highest court in Indonesia, the Constitutional Court, found by a margin of five to four that trying the terrorist suspects under these retroactive laws violated Article 28I(1) of the constitution [2]. He is passionate about the research that the Foundation undertakes. New Synergy chief executive David Fyfe. Out of that 100-plus police force that arrived from Australia, it was every spectrum of policing discipline. An off duty Australian serviceman assisted in identifying where all Australian and foreign casualties were located in the sprawling hospital wards. I knew I was in trouble and not in the ideal location to be in trouble. The only way you could help the injured was to put [them] on motorcycles for good Samaritans, who were taking them out. 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". Philippine intelligence considers Munandar to be associated with Mohammad Abdullah Sughayer, a Saudi national Abu Sayyaf Group in southern Philippines. I never saw her again. As a subscriber, you are shown 80% less display advertising when reading our articles. DECI: People were clapping because they thought there was a party in Paddy's. [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]. On 24 October 2008, Bali officials announced that three men convicted of carrying out the bombings would be executed by firing squad in November 2008. We plan on paying our respects on the day and then well have a good time, he said. He has held executive roles in operations, commercial sales, asset management, and business development. I looked to the left where the Sari Club was, and it was just absolute chaos. Her body has been returned to SA. Ben Davis, early 20s (from Hobart) in Melbourne's St Vincents Hospital with burns to hands in a stable condition. She has no interest in being famous. 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. A fourth accused, Ali Ghufron, the brother-in-law of Noordin Mohammed Top was sentenced to death on 1 October. Two bombs went off in Jalan Legian shortly after 11pm. David Fyfe has over 20 years of experience across the energy and telecommunications industries. I was informed that might have been six or seven [minutes] after the blast. (Reuters: David Gray PB)ALAN ATKINSON, former ABC journalist and one of the first reporters on the scene: It was Saturday . This sculpture of pink sandstone is the centrepiece of the memorial. Or that a third bomb would detonate about 45 seconds later nearthe US consulate. Media and Investors Richard Carcenac RBR Group Limited Chief Executive Officer . In 2011, Mr Fyfe graduated with a UWA Graduate Certificate in Business and is now the CEO of Synergy. 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. 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. We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments. Another suspect named Zulkarnaen was finally arrested in Lampung on 10 December 2020. Indonesian National Police had full jurisdiction over this matter. [41] In the final moment, there was no remorse or repentance, and they shouted: Allahu Akbar, or "God is great! 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. Munandar is still at large. But keeping his path clear of any victims mentality has been the key to surging positively into his new lifes chapter. Bali was a popular tourist destination when it was attacked in 2002. On the northern side of Coogee Beach a memorial to the Bali bombing victims comprises three interlocking bronze shapes that have an abstract resemblance to three bowed figures supporting each other. My left arm was stuck in the car's door. JONES:You don't eradicate terrorist groups completely. Australian University. It's confronting. Doctor Billy McNeil stood up for 72 hours and just helped people try and look after their wounds, try and keep them alive. Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services. inaccuracy or intrusion, then please 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. And they [applied tourniquets] I'd looked down at [my] leg and I looked at my foot. [My colleague] Mick [Keelty] was already in Bali. 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. No-one would expect that hours later, about 11pm, abomb would explodeinside the popularPaddy's Irish Pub. DE HAART:There's no such thing as closure. The film was directed by Enison Sinaro and written by Wong Wai Leng and Andy Logam-Tan. I heard it was so hard to get IV drips. On leaving she was quoted as saying "I'm certain he's gone to heaven". She has travelled with him, along with Mr Cowdery and other former Perth City teammates, to Bali for the 20th anniversary of the bombings. I could feel the car lift up off the ground. Locals and foreigners including many Australians waded through the main street of Jalan Legian, leaving crowded restaurants and pouring into bustling bars. There were a lot of people on the street. When she set up the foundation, she named it after one of her old mentors. It was October 12, 2002, and the night was just getting started. DEWA KETUT RUDITAWIDYA PUTRA (nickname Deci), Indonesian survivor:We werestuck [in acar] in atraffic jamand our position was right in front of the Sari Club's door. CSABI: I remember being put in the back of a ute and I'd been on a sheet of iron. Three terrorists were executed. In the interim, they treated the wounded, managed fluid resuscitation and Vij performed countless escharotomies, an emergency surgical procedure to release the constrictive effects of severely burnt skin. I was covered in blood. (AAP/Facebook) David Ure had been in Bali for . 19m. Additional photography courtesy of Reuters, AP and Facebook. He shies away from giving advice to others facing hardship. The attacks claimed the lives of 202 people, including 88 Australians and put some UWA Medical School graduates to the test. A remembrance garden was constructed at the International School Ho Chi Minh City commemorating teachers from that school who were killed in the bombings. The recording did not however claim responsibility for the Bali attack. It was funny because I always say thatyour positive attitude attracts positive results and it worked for me. And that kind of galvanised me. Balinese boys were hanging off the tree branches to one side, watching. So I [was] attached to what was called the reconciliation team [which]looks at data and tries to identify the dead and that includes DNA and fingerprints and the traditional sort of forensic methodologies as well. Mr Fyfe remembered his relief and joy at being released from RPH, despite Perths summer heat agitating his burns. 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. 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. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. So emergency service and vehicles couldn't enter that area. All Australian jurisdictions abolished the death penalty more than 30 years ago, but a poll[32] showed that 77% of Australians approved of the death sentence for Amrozi. Eddie McGuire on Nine Network's television call of McCartney's return after the bombings (North Melbourne vs. Richmond, Round 11, 2003)[49]. Transaction records, directors wealth, remuneration data and network activity. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. Other Australian victims were honored in a video shown on the stadium's video screens before the game, with the attendees including Melbourne players Steven Febey and Steven Armstrong, who were both injured in the blast, and representatives from five Australian rules football clubs who lost players in the attacks were presented to the crowd. It has taught him lessons he has applied in a successful business career, culminating in his recent appointment as chief executive of Synergy. The Balinese mark their commitment in a nine-day-long event. Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours. "I do remember picking myself up," he said. Idris dialed the number of the Nokia to detonate the bomb at the Consulate. Now, I'm not trying to overdramatize thingsthis shows terrorism, as I said, will never beat courage. 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. By then, his leg had been amputated just below the knee by burns surgeon Fiona Wood, who was named Australian of the Year in 2005 for her work in caring for the Bali bombing survivors. It was dark. West Australian Newspapers Limited 2023. Editors' Code of Practice. ATKINSON: Sanglah Hospital was like a war zone. It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse. I couldn't tell you if they are male or female, child or whatever. The Foundation was represented at the dinner by David Fyfe, Bali bomb survivor, burns victim and a Foundation Non-Executive Director. Despite a snapped Achilles tendon in his right leg, he managed to drag himself outside to the pavement before feeling the back of his legs and ending with hands pooled in blood. The doctors suspected I would be off work for 12 months. To know that 202 people died in a single location was definitely sobering. The attack killed 202 people (including 88 Australians, 38 Indonesians, 23 Britons, and people of more than 20 other nationalities). 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