The barbaric and cowardly killing of predominantly Australian tourists in Bali on October 12 raises a number of important questions for both Indonesia and Australia.The bombing took place at about 11.30 pm on a Saturday night, in a resort frequented by foreigners who were both defenceless and unsuspecting. The earlier vague upgrade in security warnings to US citizens suggests that the Americans, at least, knew something was in the wind; but nobody could have anticipated the horror which was abou…
