Eva’s Last Dance

Innocent victims perished as a result of the bombing in Kuningan. Here is an account of what their families remember about them.

September 14, 2004

Black Thursday, 6:30pm. The story on every television and radio was the same: a bomb had exploded that morning in front of the Australian Embassy. Haji Masduri, a middle-aged man wearing a traditional kopiah cap and a brown batik shirt, trod slowly through the morgue at Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital. He identified himself as the father of Syaifuddin, a BII Finance employee whose office is located in Wisma Kodel, not far from the location of the exp

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