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8:01AM Sunday Sep 30, 2012

Confessions of a Bali bomber
  Date September 30, 2012 

This freed terrorist says he was just following orders, writes Indonesia 
correspondent Michael Bachelard.

My part in the Bali bombing: Idris
Bali bomber Idris says it will be for Allah to decide if what he did was right 
or wrong in helping carry out the attack which killed 202 innocent people.

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For someone who carved such a jagged scar across Australia's recent history, 
the man sitting across from me is disappointingly ordinary.

He cracks a joke and chuckles. It's clear he wants to be liked. He describes 
himself, accurately it seems, as ''not extra intelligent and also not extra 
stupid''.

The man is Idris: a Bali bomber, a senior member of the terrorist organisation 
that planned and then carried out the attack 10 years ago that killed 202 
people including 88 Australians.

What he and his cabal did change everything. It ended Australia's isolation 
from violent global jihad, pulling this country emphatically into world events. 
It shocked Indonesia into a sustained crackdown on the radicals multiplying in 
its midst. And it ripped bodies apart, burnt flesh and marked thousands of 
survivors and families forever, both physically and psychically.

But ask him for an explanation of what he did, for some deep reflection, and 
Idris comes up with the lamest of all possible answers: he was just following 
orders.

In his first ever interview with Australian media, the freed bomber says he 
would willingly wage jihad on Indonesian soil again, but only if he believed he 
was fighting in a ''legitimate war zone'' - which includes armed 
inter-religious conflict on Indonesian soil.

''If some time in the future I form the intention to do jihad, it is obvious 
that I'll go to war. If there is such a zone in Indonesia, of course I will go 
there.''

But the most senior Bali terrorist to be released from jail has also told The 
Sun-Herald he remains unsure whether his role in the bombing was justified 
under Islamic law.

''I have never felt glad, happy or gay about this affair. In my heart I keep 
hoping that what I did was right and that I will be rewarded,'' he says. 
''However, I'm always worried that it was wrong and that Allah will punish me.''

Idris was 12 kilometres away on a motorcycle with his fellow terrorist Ali 
Imron when he felt as much as heard the Bali bomb go off.

''It's as if it came from underground,'' he recalls.

As the subterranean rumble reached him, he did not spare a thought for the 
victims. His thoughts were only for himself. ''The feeling of fear dominated,'' 
he said in his home town of Pekanbaru.

''[Ali Imron and I] went to a restaurant. There was rice in front of us. We 
couldn't finish it, not even a quarter of it. Even water tasted bitter … No one 
talked. We heard the sirens, ambulance, we felt really afraid.''

Idris can only speak now because he is a free man. He escaped conviction for 
the Bali bombing on a legal point when Indonesia's constitutional court ruled 
he could not be convicted under laws passed after the bombing took place.

He was sentenced to 10 years in jail for a different bombing, of the Marriott 
Hotel in Jakarta in 2003, which killed 12 people. But after remissions and 
parole served just five years. He was released in 2009.

He lives with his family but complains he cannot find work because his past 
means no one will give him a job.

Idris attended Ngruki, Abu Bakar Bashir's school of jihad in Solo, but his book 
learning did not lead to action until 2002. Then, two of Indonesia's most 
important jihadis, Amrozi and Mukhlas, the supreme leader of Jemaah Islamiah in 
Asia, called him to a a little house in Solo. It was a planning meeting for a 
bomb attack on ''America and its allies'' in Bali - a place they saw as a nest 
of infidel hedonism.

Idris became project manager. ''My role … was to provide logistics and to 
prepare various things, such as providing a house, car, surveying the target, 
and also preparing food. Basically anything my friends might need.''

Idris also remembers Mukhlas, who was executed in 2008, was the one giving the 
orders. To Idris, everything he did can be explained by that single fact. ''I 
couldn't think about if [the attack] was justified or not justified. If the 
senior commander ordered us to do it, we had to.''

What about conscience? Humanity? ''I didn't think, I simply followed what 
Mukhlas said.''

Idris also refuses to feel bad about being released from jail.

''It is the state who created the law … Whether it was fair or not I cannot 
say,'' he says.

But the questions of personal responsibility and remorse continue to rankle. I 
show Idris pictures from The Sydney Morning Herald taken in 2002 of maimed and 
burnt bodies, of the wreck of buildings and the remains of the van that 
contained the bomb. I ask him how he feels and he pauses for thought.

''When I saw the pieces of bodies I just thought something like, 'Wow', or 'Oh, 
my god', because I know there isn't any Islamic law about this,'' he says.

''It's like: 'Look how much damage I did.''


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