The Man from the Flames
What remained after the Kuta bombing was the nation's wounded spirit and a will to survive. From the carnage an unlikely figure emerged to convince us all that virtue had not died.
November 12, 2002
THE wreckage and scattered bodies of those killed in the bombing of Kuta, Bali, left behind a massive open wound. And the pain amid the rubble and devastation of October 12 thrust Haji Bambang Agus Priyanto into the spotlight. He stepped forward only by chance: he had no pretensions of becoming famous from any tragedy. He just came out of the flames following the blast that snuffed out the lives of some 200 people.
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