The first of five terrorist bombings during the past decade took place in Bali in October 2002, incurring the highest number of fatalities. The goodwill and credibility Indonesia worked hard to achieve as it undertook to achieve a democratic society, evaporated overnight. The subsequent bombings at the Australian embassy, a second bombing attack in Bali in 2005, the double explosion at the hotels Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott in Jakarta last year,