A bomb maker who assembled the explosives used to carry out the Bali terrorist attacks is set to be freed from prison within days after being granted an early release on Indonesia’s independence day | ChrisBarrett_
A bomb maker who assembled the explosives used to carry out the Bali terrorist attacks is set to be freed from prison within days after being granted an early release on Indonesia’s independence day.He was accused at his trial in Jakarta of being the assembler of the explosives that ripped through the Sari Club and Paddy’s Irish Bar killing 202 people including 88 Australians.
Firemen attempt to extinguish the blaze ignited by a bomb blast at the Sari night club on the island of Bali in 2002.It’s a development that will cast an unwelcome shadow over the 20th year anniversary of the October 12 attack, according to Melbourne man Jan Laczynski, who was in the Sari Club shortly before the explosions. Five of his friends died in the attack.
His jail term had been reduced by a year and 11 months since he was imprisoned and before Wednesday’s announcement, he was to become eligible for parole next January, when he would have served two-thirds of his sentence. Dubbed “Demolition Man” because of his expertise with explosives, Patek was also convicted for his part in a series of church blasts in Jakarta on Christmas Eve in 2000 that killed 19 people.
Adhe Bhakti, a researcher at Indonesia’s Centre for Radicalism and Deradicalisation Studies, believes Patek poses no threat of engaging in extremism again. Laczynski has travelled to Indonesia and met with reformed terrorists including Ali Imron, who is serving a life sentence for his part in the attack and whose brothers, Ali Ghufron and Amrozi, were executed in 2008 for their involvement.“They all say they’re reformed and they’ve seen the evils of their past but you sometimes sit back and wonder ‘are they going to one day wake up and do the same thing again’? Laczynski said.
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