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.

Two hundred and two people were killed, including 88 Australians, and jihadist group, Jemar Islamia, claimed responsibility.

Such is 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 Koolan Nation.

And a warning.

This episode of the podcast contains graphic descriptions of violence.

It had started out as a group of mates who were sort of 16, 17 years old.

And I got the version of it from the parents for the podcast.

And then sort of, which didn't make it to air was that I got the version from the boys themselves.

And I was like, oh, this is slightly new.

It was great because it also goes into, you know, it was only three years after the first bombings. And so I remember that period of time. I think I, you know, gave Bali a miss

for maybe a year. Like we, we got back to business as usual pretty quickly in terms of going to Bali. But I love

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