Terrorism in Southeast Asia: The Bali Bombing
October 12, 2002 would become a decisive turning point for foreign and domestic politics in Indonesia. On that day, the lives of over two hundred and two people were claimed after three bombs were denoted simultaneously in Bali and one in Sulawesi. This act of violence was to become the most devastating act of terrorism on Indonesian soil. The Bali bombing can be viewed as the most devastating act of terrorism not only because the bombing was the first attack against the country, but also because the attack itself can be viewed within the typical framework of the ~{!.~}revolt against the West~{!/~} as Bellamy (2005) has argued.
The argument put forth above is not meant to downplay the effects of Islamic Radicalism within Southeast Asia. Islamic Radicalism is not, as Desker suggests in Contemporary Southeast Asia Journal, a ~{!0~}sudden~{!1~} or ~{!0~}recent~{!1~} phenomenon (Desker, 489). Indonesia is, of course, the world~{!/~}s......

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