Plans have been quickly arranged and survivors and victims’ families have now been told they will not be forgotten on the 20th anniversary of the terror attack.
With the Coalition having set nothing in place before the election, the glaring omission risked being an embarrassment for the government as well as upsetting families of victims.
But government officials have now told people intending to travel to Bali that they are arranging for a small service to be held at the consulate-general on the morning of October 12 and for wreaths to be laid in Kuta. They have also discussed a ceremony at the site of the attack at 11pm – about the time of the explosions – where a candle would be lit for each victim.Justin McManus
And in Canberra, the government is now planning a formal observance of the 20th anniversary at the Great Hall at Parliament House. It is understood it has consulted survivors, families and friends of victims and received feedback from many that they preferred the main official ceremony be held in Australia.
The change of plans in Bali was welcomed, however, by Melbourne man Jan Lacynski, who was in the Sari Club in the hours before a car bomb was detonated outside and whose friends perish that night. He said as many as 50 families had travelled to the island on the anniversary in recent years.An unidentified foreign woman lays wreath at the Octotber12 bombings site in Kuta, Bali, in 2003.
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