In 2002, Australia's favourite holiday destination, the Indonesian island of Bali, was rocked by three bomb explosions.

One outside the Australian Embassy and two in the middle of the nightclub strip.

202 people were killed, including 88 Australians, and jihadist group, Jammar Islamia, claimed responsibility.

Such as Australia's love affair with

the island that by 2005, just three years later, tourism had largely resumed. A group of teenagers

from Newcastle were determined to travel there together, but rather than let them go alone,

many of their parents decided to make the trip as well. In the end, the group numbered

over 40, and many of them travelled to the picturesque Jim Baran Bay on the night of October 1

for dinner on the beach. That night, three more bombs were detonated at Jim Baran Bay.

Joe Frost was one of the teenagers who organised the trip. He was on the beach of

Jim Baran that night and he's produced a podcast about the experience called Forgotten Bombs,

Bali, 2005. He joins us on Australian True Crime to talk about it. This is Australian

True Crime. We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is created,

the Wurundri Woi Warang people of the Kulin Nation.

And a warning.

This episode of the podcast contains graphic descriptions of violence.

It felt like a silly title for a little while there because the anniversary came along and I was

obviously getting interviewed a little bit and, you know, when people are sort of saying,

tell us about this podcast that's called Forgotten Bombs that you're sort of saying everyone's

forgotten, but that we're really making a big effort to remember at the moment. So I felt a little

bit silly for a little while there, but, you know, for the better part of the 20 years, it was

forgotten. And I suppose, like, a good example was when we were talking about doing an

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