Big Bangs

Terror and bombings are becoming a routine occurrence in Indonesia. How well equipped is the police bomb disposal unit to deal with the threat?

October 29, 2002

ALL through last week the West Java Police bomb disposal team was hard at work. Two shopping centers in the provincial capital of Bandung—Supermall and Istana Plaza—were affected.

At the Supermall, a bomb exploded in the parking basement of the building, injuring a 35-year-old cleaning service worker named Agus Sudarto. Police, not wanting to be caught off guard after the devastating bombing of a nightclub in Bali earlier in Octo

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