Ref:  Menurut SBY  pemboman teroris di Bali memperkuat bangsa. Jadi kalau 
begitu mudah saja untuk lebih memperkuat bangsa, perlu dilakukan banyak “ Bali 
Bombing” atau  seperti teror yang  disponsornya kepada Laskar Jihad & co ke 
Sulawesi Tengah dan Maluku guna membasmi kaum Nasrani. Bagi yang belum tahu 
atau lupa silahkan lihat keterangan SBY dengan click pada : 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L-9HcTb1es



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SBY Says Bali Bombings Strengthened Nation
October 11, 2012

 An armed Indonesian policeman surveys the scene of a bomb blast at a nightclub 
in Kuta on Indonesia's popular resort island of Bali in this October 14, 2002 
file photo. Commemorations will be held in Indonesia and Australia on October 
12, 2012 marking the tenth anniversary of bomb blasts on the island of Bali 
that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians. (Reuters Photo/Jonathan 
DrakeIndonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday said the 
“monstrous act of terror” in Bali 10 years ago failed to achieve its objective 
and only strengthened interfaith cooperation.

His comments came ahead commemorations to mark the 10th anniversary on Friday, 
with some 1,000 security personnel deployed in Bali to ensure it passes 
peacefully after “credible information” of a threat to the ceremony.

The bombings in the predominantly Muslim nation on October 12, 2002, by the 
Al-Qaeda-linked group Jemaah Islamiyah, opened an Asia front in the war on 
terrorism one year after the 9/11 attacks on the United States.

More than 200 people died in the blasts on Bali’s party strip, many of them 
Western tourists, although 38 were Indonesian.

Yudhoyono, who was security affairs minister at the time, said the atrocity 
only succeeded in drawing the country closer together.

“Whatever the motivation and calculation of the terrorists, the Bali bomb 
attack did not produce its desired effects,” he said in an opinion piece for 
the Sydney Morning Herald.

“In fact, it resulted in just the opposite. Throughout Indonesia, Muslims, 
Hindus, Christians and Buddhists overwhelmingly condemned the attack and 
repudiated those who misused religion to carry out acts of violence.

“The entire nation galvanized to defend freedom, democracy and tolerance.

“And internationally, Indonesia became a key player in the fight against global 
terrorism. Indonesia also became an active proponent of interfaith 
co-operation,” he added.

Some 88 Australians were among the Bali dead and Prime Minister Julia Gillard 
reiterated her intention Thursday to attend the memorial despite the possible 
terror threat, with Indonesia declaring its top security alert.

“I am intending to go to Bali. I want to be in Bali,” she said.

Gillard is due to give an address to remember the Australians who were among 
the victims of the strike against the Sari Club and Paddy’s Bar on the tourist 
island’s nightlife strip of Kuta.

“This is a moment of real significance for our nation. Ten years ago I think we 
would all remember where we were and how we felt, how shocked we were,” said 
the prime minister.

“I want to spend some time with the families who have really had to absorb such 
grief.”

Yudhoyono said the moment when the bombs went off would be etched in the 
memories of Indonesians forever, and they set off a series of chain reactions.

“The public debate over whether terrorism was a real or imagined threat to 
Indonesia was laid to rest,” he said.

“We recognized that freedom, democracy and tolerance cannot be taken for 
granted. Our national security thinking evolved rapidly, and terrorism became 
public enemy number one.”

Bali’s fortunes, which are heavily reliant on tourism, have now recovered and 
Indonesia has won praise for its crackdown on militants that has left all the 
leading Bali perpetrators either executed, killed by police or jailed.

Yudhoyono said he had been determined “that those involved in the attack would 
pay for their monstrous act of terror”, and was pleased justice had been done.

“A decade after the Bali bomb, we can say with some relief that justice has 
been done,” he said.

“Some of those in jail have expressed remorse and regret, and renounced the 
extremist ideology behind it.

“Others have collaborated to provide intelligence that led to the arrest of a 
succession of terrorist cells.”

Agence France-Presse

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