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Terror backlash for the execution of the “Bali bombers”

By P.S. SURYANARAYANA

Aug 01, 2009

In Singapore

Indonesia: The serial bomb blasts in Jakarta on July 17 are aimed at the country’s new political awakening.

TERRORISM is back with a bang, as it were, on the political agenda of Indonesia’s fledgling democracy. The serial bomb explosions at two adjacent luxury hotels in a fashionable district of Jakarta on July 17 – the first major terrorist attack in Indonesia since 2005 – have shattered the euphoria over the peaceful presidential election on July 8 in the Muslim-majority nation. The incidents come at a time when the country’s polity was poised to soar on its new democratic wings.

Surely, the democratic exercise, the second direct presidential election since the fall of Suharto’s authoritarian regime a decade ago, did spark some controversies. The election result had not been announced officially when terrorists struck at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels. Still in focus then were the “quick counts”, or exit polls, which had given President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono much cause for celebration. He was projected to have been re-elected.

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