DE HAART: We were just getting ready to create havoc, when havoc was created for us. 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. The doctors suspected I would be off work for 12 months. An unofficial list of the dead, missing and injured Australians following the bomb blasts in Bali: 30 Australians are confirmed dead including: Shane Foley, 34 (from the Coogee Beach Dolphins junior rugby league club), Marc Gajardo, 30 (from Cornwall, was living in Byron Bay), Adam Howard, 26 (from Double Bay, member of the Dolphins), Josh Iliffe, 28 (from Kensington, member of the Dolphins), Linda Makawana, 49 (formerly of Kiama, lived in Bali for five years), Dave Mavroudis, 29 (from Wagga Wagga, member of the Dolphins), Jodie O'Shea, 29 (from Como, died in Royal Perth Hospital), Kathy Salvatori, 38 (from Malabar, wife of former rugby league international Craig), Clinton Thompson, 29 (from Griffith, member of the Dolphins), Gerard Yeo, 20 (from Dubbo and member of the Coogee Dolphins), Corey Paltridge, 20 (from Perth, member of Kingsley football club), Robert Thwaites, 24 (from the Gold Coast), Jared Gane, 27 (from Gold Coast, and possibly also a NZ citizen), David Kent, 41 (living in Singapore, formerly Queensland), Joshua Deegan, 22 (from Adelaide, a member of the SANFL club Sturt). 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. The large, high-temperature blast damage produced by this mixture was similar to a thermobaric explosive,[21] although the bombers may not have known this. [9], A report released in August 2005 by the United States-Indonesia Society (USINDO) described the events as follows:[10]. And the sky was lit up with this big orange glow, which is strange because all the lights are out. The way that the device was put to the suspects, the way that we thought the device had been constructed, was almost perfect. 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. 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". After it was announced, Polri monitored the sudden flurry of communications among numbers listed in Amrozi's telephone before the calls abruptly ceased. The two suicide bombers exploded their devices. On 8 August, he was found guilty and sentenced to death. Then I was on a stretcher on a tarmac there in Denpasar, and we're on a Hercules jet bound for Darwin. Then 33, he was on an end-of-year soccer trip and standing on the edge of the dance floor at Paddys Bar in Kuta when the first of three bombs went off. The Balinese mark their commitment in a nine-day-long event. Get the news you want delivered to your inbox. Listen. 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. 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In 2011, Mr Fyfe graduated with a UWA Graduate Certificate in Business and is now the CEO of Synergy. We went to investigate [the hotel first]and then worked our way towards what ended up being 'Ground Zero'. Currently Executive Manager Asset Operations with Western Australian utility Western Power, Mr Fyfe . al-Qaeda See all related content 2002 Bali Bombings, terrorist attack involving the detonation of three bombs on the Indonesian island of Bali on October 11, 2002, that killed 202 people. He denied self-pity when it came knocking after the doctors at Royal Perth Hospital told him he had burns to more than 50 per cent of his body and had received extensive skin grafts. Catch up with The Loop, Is there a safe limit of alcohol you can drink? It was [an] obviously shocking series of events unfolding. David Fyfe has over 20 years of experience across the energy and telecommunications industries. CSABI: [I was] put on a sheet of corrugated iron and four [people] carried me down Poppies[Lane]. All the pictures too I burnt them all. Once I was inside I had to wait still because it was still crowded. I couldn't see anything, so I could only feel with my hands. But I can tell you at 25 years old, sitting three or four feet away from one of the Bali bombers there's a couple of them, but there was one at the time hearing them talk quite normally about their role in the investigation or their points on our design of the bomb and how we thought it had functioned was one of the most surreal things I've ever experienced. Bali was a popular tourist destination when it was attacked in 2002. Join the Business News community for the latest news headlines, straight to your inbox, twice daily. I was quite young, I was 25 at the time. Then I'd gone and fallen into that crater in the front and that's when an off duty soldier, Anthony McKay, came to my aid. However, investigators discovered the bomb was made from potassium chlorate, aluminium powder, and sulfur. It is flanked by the national flags of the victims. Hundreds more people suffered horrific burns and other injuries. The local Sanglah Hospital was ill-equipped to deal with the scale of the disaster and was overwhelmed with the number of injured, particularly burn victims. 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. 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. I heard it was so hard to get IV drips. Expect more that will further distress you. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself. I did my rehab in Darwin, so eight and a half weeks in Darwin, being the last Australian to get out of that Darwin hospital. The door on the driver's seat was open, so I got out from there. 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. He reasoned it was a move in the wrong direction. 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. The memorial is specifically designed to frame the sun's rays at dawn on 12 October each year and faces in the exact direction of Bali. New Synergy chief executive David Fyfe. I remember waking up 12 days after Bali no idea what had happened, Mr Fyfe said. The Bali bombings killed 202 people and changed Australia. The Extra) Augusta-Margaret River Times I looked to the left where the Sari Club was, and it was just absolute chaos. 35 Stirling Highway SIDNEY JONES, an expert onsecurity in South-East Asia and founder and senior adviser to the Jakarta-based Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict: I think [the people behind the attacks] hoped to literally cause fear. David Fyfe was in a bar when three terrorist bombs rocked the holiday resort in October 2002. It's difficult to get past it all. The Indonesian chief of police, General Da'i Bachtiar said that the bombing was the "worst act of terror in Indonesia's history". Imam Samudra, Amrozi Nurhasyim and Ali Ghufron were executed by firing squad after midnight on 9 November 2008 (West Indonesian time). [28] The U.S. government had offered a US$1million reward for his arrest. And they [applied tourniquets] I'd looked down at [my] leg and I looked at my foot. It is the work of the artist Gary Breeze and the sculptor Martin Cook.[59]. We are lucky at The Herald. And that kind of galvanised me. When she set up the foundation, she named it after one of her old mentors. She was trying to find me a vehicle to take me to the hospital. Synergy chief executive David Fyfe survived the Bali bombings 20 years ago and says the incident has since impacted his role as a leader. At the urging of his fiancee Simone, Mr Fyfe recently began learning to surf using a carbon fibre leg. When he was in RPH, he made a decision not to expend energy on anything other than getting well. I'm not a racist in any shape or form. So his family found a new way, In rare attack, polar bear kills mum, 1-year-old infant in remote Alaskan village, Farmer pleads for help to rehome dozens of chickens injured in WA bushfires, Gladstone Hospital secures emergency obstetrician but women still have to travel 100km for births, Heartbroken Nucoal investors find hope in long-running compensation fight, Some of the biggest names in snooker are charged over match-fixing scandal. The bombings were an act of terrorism carried out by operatives from Jemaah Islamiah (JI), a South-East Asian group inspired by and linked to Al Qaeda. Readers comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. 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. James Parkinson, an emergency nurse, worked alongside Doctor Hogg from Wollongong in the Denpasar Sanglah Hospital running the trauma centre for the bombing victims. [43] For burial, Mukhlas and Amrozi's bodies were flown by helicopter to Tenggulan, Lamongan, East Java, while Imam Samudra's body was flown to Serang, Banten, amid "welcome martyrs" banner displayed at the cemetery. She basically turned around and took my leg off.". A remembrance garden was constructed at the International School Ho Chi Minh City commemorating teachers from that school who were killed in the bombings. He told police. We are doing this to improve the experience forour loyalreaders and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. The Bali Peace Park Association offered the equivalent of $350,000 for the land when it appeared it could be used only for a park, said the group's chairman, David Napoli. That can only be in a war and Indonesia is not at war."[47]. (A new bar, named "Paddy's: Reloaded", was reopened further along Legian Street). Suddenly the lights went off. The 20 year anniversary is being marked in several ways, Mr Fyfe and Professor Wood are speaking together at the upcoming Business News breakfast on The Path of Resilience, and author and journalist Sue Williams has released a biography of Professor Woods story, named Under Her Skin, with proceeds directed to the Fiona Wood Foundation. Please try again later. Mr Fyfe regarded himself and his friends as extraordinarily lucky, but retained powerful memories of the night that hospitalised him for two months. Now, I'm about 120 kilos. One was detonated by a suicide bomber inside Paddy's Bar and seconds later, another bomb was set off in a car outside the Sari Club. Two of Clint and Trent's brothers, Brock and Ryan, and their sister Farrah, are accompanying them. I kept everything,all the articles. This site is part of Newsquest's audited local newspaper network. Many have praised the acts of heroism displayed by strangers on the night of October 12. MCEWAN: The way Jalan Legian is set up, [it's] a one-way street. The second factor that inspired the Bali bombing, which is also critical, is the communal violence that erupted in Indonesia, in Ambon in the Moluccas, and in Poso in central Sulawesi, in 1999 and 2000, where there was Christian, Muslim fighting, and Muslims were dying at Christian hands. The Foundation was represented at the dinner by David Fyfe, Bali bomb survivor, burns victim and a Foundation Non-Executive Director. Mr Fyfe said he needed to understand what had happened to him. Credit: Supplied A survivor of the Bali bombings 20 years ago has been tapped as the new boss of State-owned electricity retailer Synergy. We're talking not a short amount of time after the blast. Two bombs ripped through the Kuta area of the Indonesian tourist island of Bali on 12 October 2002, leaving 202 people dead. It is set in a black granite pond located in 'Peryman Place' not far from North Cronulla Beach, frequented by many of the seven victims and their families. Share on Facebook. And my condition was not good. GREEN: On my first rotation over there, I was assisting on the criminal side of the investigation. The world-first technology, which allows healthy skin cells to be cultured and sprayed on to wounds, greatly reduced permanent scarring in burns victims. All of my subsequent deployments were on the disaster victim identification side. 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 said he would appeal. The community event consists of traditional art performances such as Balinese Sunset Dances, sports on the beach as well as in the water for young and old plus rows and rows of culinary displays along the one kilometre of sandy beach. Mr Fyfe remembered his relief and joy at being released from RPH, despite Perths summer heat agitating his burns. At home in Virginia Beach, Creecy's mother, June Robbins, awoke feeling blue that same morning. [20] The specific charges against Bashir related to a series of church bombings on Christmas Eve in 2000, and to a plot to bomb United States and other Western interests in Singapore. GREEN: This was an unprecedented event in any Australian law enforcement. [First] the 1998 fatwa from Al-Qaeda, which itself might have inspired the 9/11 attacks, but which called on all Muslims to attack the Christian Zionist alliance, wherever and however they could. I wasn't involved in that part of it, but I know a lot of my colleagues that I've spoken to during the investigation and since were travelling to all different parts of Indonesia at the time to suspected bomb-making or actual bomb-making factories. Senior Constable Timothy Britten and Mr Richard Joyes of Western Australia were both awarded the Cross of Valour for their actions during the course of the day. Engineer David Fyfe was inside Paddy's Bar when the first bomb went off. The most powerful knowledgebase mapped from 20 years of research and insight into every WA A survivor of the Bali bombings 20 years ago has been tapped as the new boss of State-owned electricity retailer Synergy. We need to be prepared for smaller scale accidents as well as the next disaster. "I got up on my first lesson, on the very last wave," he said. [My colleague] Mick [Keelty] was already in Bali. The film was directed by Enison Sinaro and written by Wong Wai Leng and Andy Logam-Tan. ", West Australian Newspapers Limited 2023. I grabbed notebooks and pens and phone and water. Philippine intelligence considers Munandar to be associated with Mohammad Abdullah Sughayer, a Saudi national Abu Sayyaf Group in southern Philippines. I can only imagine I was thrown quite a few metresbecause when I woke up, I didn't think I was in the same place when that bomb went off. THIOLINA: I'm not sure how long I [was] passed out. Aris Munandar (aka Sheik Aris) is a Jemaah Islamiyah associate linked to Bashir. But I still remember what struck me is they were just so normal. Angela Golotta, 19 (from Tea Tree Gully, was on holidays with her parents). It was October 12, 2002, and the night was just getting started. You can make a complaint by using the report this post link . I grew up in a Catholic family and I crossed myself. Mr Fyfe, 33, said: "I'm at the stage where my prosthetic leg will crack before I do.". An official with SANFL club Sturt), Tim Hawkins, 29 (from Hobart, a former Australian rower and brother of Olympic gold medallist Stephen Hawkins). The work is by sculptor Chris Bennetts and Ishi Buki Sandstone Sculpture. He is believed to have assisted the Bali bomber Amrozi in acquiring some of the explosives used in the Bali bombings. One of the things thats enabled me to get through is that I accepted everything that happened very quickly, I didnt fight the, Why has it happened?, Mr Fyfe said. [23][24] A week after the blasts, Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera put to air an audio-cassette purportedly carrying a recorded voice message from Osama Bin Laden saying that the Bali bombings were in retaliation for support of the United States' war on terror and Australia's role in the liberation of East Timor.[5]. * An injured person aboard an RAAF Hercules evacuation flight died en route to Darwin on Sunday night. Bali bombing survivor Dave Fyfe while in a coma at Royal Perth Hospital. Cookies help us improve your website experience. My left arm was stuck in the car's door. Bob Marshall, 68 (from Adelaide. Kuta Karnival is conducted to commemorate and give respect to the victims of human violence and show the world the true spirit of local community survival despite terrorism attacks. Balinese boys were hanging off the tree branches to one side, watching. He confessed that visiting the Kuta memorial had provoked tears, which often flowed for others who lost so much in 2002. ", He reacted almost instantly. The service is attended by survivors of the 2002 rugby tour to Bali, friends and family of those who lost their lives, as well as current and past players of the club. And that was it. They were given some instructions on how to mix the components of the explosive and they did the best they could, I guess. 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. He awoke from an induced coma in Royal Perth Hospital 13 days later. I accepted it and owned it. After he disappeared in Africa and Europe for three years, the Governor General's department finally tracked him down and awarded Parkinson the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2005.[18]. [5] However, former FBI agent Ali Soufan confirmed in his book, The Black Banners, that al-Qaeda did in fact finance the attack. JONES: Almost everyone involved in the Bali bombings in 2002 [were eventually] linked to the branch of Jemaah islamiah [JI] that was based in Malaysia, not in Indonesia. A few seconds later, a massive explosion happened. When images of the Bali bombings flashed on the television in his ward, terror and pain and tragedy distilled and concentrated on a small screen, he stopped hospital staff from changing the channel. You will be killed just as you kill, and will be bombed just as you bomb. They assisted in placing IV cannulas and IDCs, as well as offering emotional support, and began transferring patients out to the airport pending arrival of Australian Army medics on a Hercules plane. It's confronting. David Fyfe was featured in 2022 in the Energy section. THIOLINA: Suddenly, I met somebody who led me to his car, I don't know who this person is [but] he told me to get in the car He asked who my name was in English. DE HAART: I guess I was in a state of shock and this guy came up and he shoved a girl in my arms and said 'look after her' and he turned around and went back into the Sari Club. The speeches exhorted listeners to wage jihad. And thank god, it was true, I felt healthier. Not quite ready to subscribe? It stars Raelee Hill, Mirrah Foulkes, Alex Komang, Surya Saputra, John O' Hare, Sarah Treleaven, and Joshua Pandelaki. Two plaques are set into the granite surrounding the pond. 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. Sometimes in life, the scars you have are a representation of some of the things youve gone through and Im very comfortable with my scarring. The first bomber headed to Paddy's Pub. [7], Damage to the densely populated residential and commercial district was immense, destroying neighbouring buildings and shattering windows several blocks away. DE HAART: People wandering around, people in a state of shock. JONES:[The terrorists]were more inspired by two things [in the Bali bombing attack]. 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. Amrozi was asleep in the rear of the house. First aid and burn innovations that saved lives during the Bali bombings. [50] McCartney helped his team to a narrow win before announcing his retirement at the end of the game,[49] and his comeback has been cited as one of the AFL's most inspirational stories.[51][52][53][54]. I couldn't really see, my body was covered in blood. The plaques carry the victims' photos, names, and ages; and also details of the event, the design's symbolism, its dedication, and a poem written by the families of the victims. David Fyfe, Synergy's head of commercial and its acting chief executive, succeeds Jason Waters, who took the helm of the Perth Mint last month. It's important to realise that neither of these were AFP jurisdiction. David was treated by the staff at Royal Perth hospital under the leadership of Fiona Wood. A manager with Western Power, Mr Fyfe said he used the resilience and patience the bombings had awoken in him to help his employees and himself. DECI: My family and friends didn't leave me and they would help me with my weaknesses, especially in the beginning, I really shut myself off from the world. Prior to joining Synergy in 2020 as its general manager, commercial, Mr Fyfe was with Western Power for more than 10 years where he was executive manager of operations and acting chief executive. Called The Seed, the work is based on the seed and foliage of the Banksia robur, a native plant indigenous to the Shire. ATKINSON: I just hope they can protect what's special about Bali, which is that it is so different from the rest of Indonesia. I've never smelled that before. So we believe, and I still hold that, of the 1,000 or so kilograms of explosives [used], around 500kg or thereabouts, actually detonated. (AAP/Facebook) David Ure had been in Bali for . I heard someone say that her eye lens are broken and they must be operated on tonight. The car bomb explosion left a one metre deep crater.[8]. If you need support, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14. Two more died by police bullets during raids. Get the news you want delivered to your inbox. "[39] Supreme Court judge Djoko Sarwoko, however, said a "last-minute legal challenge by the relatives of Imam Samudra, Amrozi Nurhasyim and Ali Ghufron will not change or delay the execution." Weve got a newsletter for everyone. GREEN: This was the largest bombing I've ever attended, even today It was huge. Doctors were forced to perform a life-saving, deep-to-the-bone fasciotomy (cutting connective body tissue) in his leg to ease pressure while he was unconscious in Bali. He confessed that visiting the Kuta memorial had provoked tears, which often flowed for others who lost so much in 2002. Blatantly lied to: Clarkes ex responds to cheating drama, McGowan to spruik WAs green hydrogen during Asian junket, Incompetence: War of words over gas bills. ERIK DE HAART, Australia survivor and member of the Coogee Dolphinsrugby league club: I was sharing a room with Shane Foley and Gerard Yeo and we got [to the hotel] about 4pm. On the night of October 12, 2002, thousands of holiday makers from Australia were in Bali's Kuta nightclub district when bomb blasts went off, indiscriminately killing 200 innocent people. Mr Fyfe has since emerged as a passionate advocate of RPH and Professor Woods Fiona Wood Foundation, where he has been a board member since 2013. 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. Mr Fyfe is committed to furthering research to ensure a better quality of life for burns patients. I told the psychologist everything. Some were later flown to Australia for surgery or for help with specialist burn treatment. The attack killed 202 people (including 88 Australians, 38 Indonesians, 23 Britons, and people of more than 20 other nationalities). Now the expat has recalled the moment he was blown up in a documentary for Australian television. It was just a bizarre sequence of events, he said. Ihad some counselling sessions up there and it did make sensethat what had happened to me was a tragic thing, but it's something that I could rebuild on. He was singled out for praise with the award of the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) on 13 June 2005.[14][15]. I could feel the car lift up off the ground. A permanent memorial was built on the site of the destroyed Paddy's Pub on Legian Street. I thought it was good to keep them as documents of the history of my life. The memorial was dedicated on 12 October 2004, the second anniversary of the attack. CRICOS: 00126G | PRV12169 "I refused to use a wheelchair," he said. In this oral history, we hear from Australian and Balinese survivors,former and current Australian Federal Police officers, a journalist and a terrorism expert. I'm trying to wave people forward and I didn't even know whether I was crawling in a safe direction. MCEWAN: [From the restaurant] we saw an inferno in the distance. Secondary charges in this indictment accused him of involvement in the Bali bombing, the first time he faced charges in relation to this attack. Albany Advertiser (incl. Patek is a suspect in other bombings as well as the one in Bali. Quite a few people had got out. 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. Christine Anu sang The Lighthouse by toxtwo at the opening ceremony. 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