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Timeline: Indonesian terror attacks

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Associated Press - October 1, 2005

Chronology of major terrorist attacks in Indonesia dating back to 2000.

October 1 2005: Bombs explode at three crowded restaurants on the tourist island of Bali, killing at least 25 and wounding more than 100 others. Officials blame unnamed terrorists for the blasts.

September 9 2004: A suicide car bomb explodes outside the Australian Embassy in the capital, Jakarta, killing 11 and wounding 100 others. Six alleged members of the regional al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah terror group have been convicted in the attack.

August 5 2003: A car bomb in front of the JW Marriott Hotel in central Jakarta, kills 12 people and wounds 150. Fifteen alleged Jemaah Islamiyah operatives convicted over the blast.

December 5 2002: Bomb explodes outside a McDonald's restaurant on Sulawesi Island, killing three people and injuring 11. Jemaah Islamiyah-linked militants blamed for the blast.

October 12 2002: Just before midnight, two near simultaneous bombs explode in a nightclub district on Bali, killing 202 people, most of them foreign tourists. Thirty-three alleged Jemaah Islamiyah operatives have been convicted so far. Three have been sentenced to death.

December 25 2000: Bombs explode at 11 churches across the country on Christmas Eve, killing 19 people and injuring around 100. The attacks have been blamed on Jemaah Islamiyah.

September 13 2000: A car bomb explodes inside the garage of the Jakarta Stock Exchange building, killing 10 people and injuring 16. Perpetrators of the attack unknown.

August 1 2000: Bomb kills two people and seriously injures the Philippine ambassador to Indonesia. Police said the attack was mounted to avenge an assault that ousted the Muslim separatist Moro Islamic Liberation from their camp on the Philippine southern island of Mindanao in 1999.

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