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Security high for Bali ceremonies Bali marks 2002 bomb anniversary
(about 6 hours later)
Security is tight on the Indonesian resort island of Bali ahead of the fourth anniversary of the 2002 nightclub bombings. Mourners on the Indonesian island of Bali are marking the fourth anniversary of the deadly 2002 bombings.
Two hundred and two people, many of them holidaymakers, were killed in the attacks on two nightclubs in the Kuta tourist district. They laid wreaths for those who died, and unfurled a long piece of white cloth to symbolise peace.
The attacks have been blamed on the South East Asian militant group Jemaah Islamiah. A total of 202 people were killed in the triple bombing - many of them Australian holidaymakers.
Commemorative events are due to take place on the island throughout the day. The attacks have been blamed on the South East Asian militant group Jemaah Islamiah - as was another attack in the area last year, which killed 20 people.
Prayer session Fitting tributes
Villagers, NGO representatives and tourists will gather on the beach to unfurl a 12km-long (7 mile-long) white cloth, meant to symbolise peace, to connect the sites of the two attacks. At an early morning ceremony overlooking Bali's beaches, mourners and foreign dignitaries gathered to pay their respects.
A multi-faith prayer session will also take place, as well as an evening ceremony in Kuta. Relatives of some of the 88 Australian victims are due to hold a private ceremony. Alief, an eight-year-old Indonesian, said he still missed his father Imawan Sarjono, who was killed in the attacks.
Col Antonius Reniban of the Bali police force said that all 11,500 officers would be on the streets. Many of the mourners were Australian, and the country's ambassador to Indonesia, Bill Farmer, also took part in the ceremony.
"We are tightening security at all entry points into Bali," he said. "We would not hesitate to take harsh measures against any kind of threat." "We will not allow terrorists to spread disorder and dismay, to drive people, faiths and neighbours apart," Mr Farmer said.
More than 30 people have been jailed in connection with the bombings Other mourners unfurled a 12km (7 mile) white cloth down the streets of the Kuta beach area where the attack took place.
Three men given the death penalty for their part in the attacks - Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra - are in the process of a final appeal against their sentences. One of the organisers, Save Dagun, explained that the cloth was "a symbol of our willingness to forget the past while at the same time recalling the tragedies that have hit this land".
Militant arrests
Indonesia has arrested more than 300 terrorist suspects since the attacks in 2002, and has tried more than two thirds of them.
Three men sentenced to death for their part in the bombings - Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra - are in the process of a final appeal against their sentences.
Another suspected ringleader, Azahari Husin, has been killed.
Analysts in Jakarta say the success of Indonesia's counter-terrorism squad has damaged the capability of militant groups to launch attacks.
But they also warn that a number of smaller, fragmented movements remain active in the country.
One such movement, led by the militant leader Noordin Mohamed Top, is alleged to have carried out the second Bali attacks last year.