Bombs from a Faraway Island

Some residents in Wangiwangi District, Southeast Sulawesi, earn their living making and selling homemade bombs. Their network reaches Poso, Ambon and Surabaya. Can the bombs that rocked Jakarta have come from there?

August 21, 2001

The songs from a house music album fill the warehousesize room covering 450 square meters of ground. People are walking here and there. Mothers and daughters are busy preparing food. Heavy-duty jewelry—necklaces with chains of a size normally found on large tins of biscuits, complete with gold pendants the size of coins—hang on the necks of each of them. White fez hats protect their heads. The men are busy chatting away after slaug

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