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20 years later, Bali bombing survivors still battling trauma

FILE - Witness and victim of a 2002 Bali bombing Peter Hughes of Perth, Australia, shows his burn scars during his testimony in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, on June 16, 2003, against Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, one of the key suspects in the bombing attack. A car bomb outside Sari Club and a suicide bombing at nearby Paddy's Pub in Kuta, Bali, on Oct. 12, 2002, killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists, including 88 Australians and seven Americans. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett, File)

FILE - Indonesian Muslim militant Hisyam bin Alizein, center, better known by his alias Umar Patek, the bombmaker of a 2002 Bali bombing, is escorted by prosecutors and plain-clothed police officers as he leaves the courtroom after his hearing at West Jakarta district court in Jakarta, Indonesia, on May 21, 2012. In August 2022, Indonesia's government considered granting an early prison release to Patek, saying that he was an example of successful efforts to reform convicted terrorists and that they planned to use him to influence others not to commit terrorist acts. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana, File)

Survivors watch a documentary on a 2002 bombing in Denpasar in Bali, Indonesia, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022. The attack, in which 202 people were killed, catapulted Indonesia onto the front lines of the international war on terror and forced the world's largest Muslim country to confront a growing extremist fringe in its midst. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

Ni Luh Erniati, who lost her husband in a Bali bombing, poses for a photograph during an interview with The Associated Press in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, on Oct. 4, 2022. Erniati's husband was one of 202 people killed when a car bomb outside Sari Club and a suicide bombing at nearby Paddy's Pub went off in Kuta, Bali, on Oct. 12, 2002. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

Ni Luh Erniati, who lost her husband in a 2002 Bali bombing, folds clothing as she runs her tailoring business in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, on Oct. 4, 2022. Erniati's husband was one of 202 people killed when a car bomb outside Sari Club and a suicide bombing at nearby Paddy's Pub went off in Kuta, Bali, on Oct. 12, 2002. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

Australian tourists Gerry and Selina Dunstan visit the Bali Bombing Memorial Monument in Kuta, Bali, Indonesia on Oct. 4, 2022. Two decades after a few Bali bombings, counterterrorism efforts in the world's most populous Muslim country remain highly active. More than 2,300 people have been arrested on terrorism charges, according to data from the Center for Radicalism and Deradicalization Studies, since a national counterterrorism unit, known as Densus 88, was established in the wake of the attacks. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

Australian tourists Gerry and Selina Dunstan visit the Bali Bombing Memorial Monument in Kuta, Bali, Indonesia, on Oct. 4, 2022. Two decades after a few Bali bombings, counterterrorism efforts in the world's most populous Muslim country remain highly active. More than 2,300 people have been arrested on terrorism charges, according to the Center for Radicalism and Deradicalization Studies, since a national counterterrorism unit, known as Densus 88, was established in the wake of the attacks. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

Bali bombing survivor Thiolina Marpaung gestures as she talks during an interview with The Associated Press in Denpasar in Bali, Indonesia, on Oct. 3, 2022. Marpaung was in a car with her colleagues on the Indonesian resort island of Bali in 2002 when a blast shook their vehicle from behind. Marpaung was temporarily blinded as shards of glass pierced her eyes. Marpaung still panics anytime she smells smoke, immediately recalling the bomb explosion that upended her life 20 years ago. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

FILE - Police officers inspect the ruins of a nightclub destroyed by a bomb blast in Kuta, Bali, Indonesia, Oct. 13, 2002. The attack, in which 202 people were killed, catapulted Indonesia onto the front lines of the international war on terror and forced the world's largest Muslim country to confront a growing extremist fringe in its midst. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - Residents and foreign tourists evacuate the scene of a bomb blast in Kuta, Bali, Indonesia, on Oct. 13, 2002. A car bomb outside Sari Club and a suicide bombing at nearby Paddy's Pub in Kuta, Bali, on Oct. 12, 2002 killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists. (AP Photo/Radar Bali, File)

Bali bombing survivor Thiolina Marpaung poses for a photograph during an interview with The Associated Press in Denpasar in Bali, Indonesia, on Oct. 3, 2022. Marpaung was in a car with her colleagues on the Indonesian resort island of Bali in 2002 when a blast shook their vehicle from behind. Marpaung was temporarily blinded as shards of glass pierced her eyes. Marpaung still panics anytime she smells smoke, immediately recalling the bomb explosion that upended her life 20 years ago. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

20 years later, Bali bombing survivors still battling trauma