AFTER BLAST, BALI TAKES TOURISM HIT

From: The Boston Globe | Date: October 22, 2002| Author: Indira A.R. Lakshmanan, Globe Staff, and Dewi Loveard, Globe Correspondent | Copyright information

BALI, Indonesia - The devastated blast site in the heart of the beach town of Kuta, where a nightclub bombing last week killed more than 180 people and injured hundreds more, has become Indonesia's ground zero. Mourners have piled flowers 10 feet in the air and burn incense that cannot quite mask the scent of death from the remains buried under the twisted wreckage.

The sight of Bali's local Hindu population grieving alongside relatives of dead Western tourists is not the postcard imag...