US EditionIndonesian Jailed over 2002 Bali Bombings Starts Coffee Business
- Umar Patek, convicted bomb maker sentenced in 2012 for the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, launched a coffee business in Surabaya in June 2025.
- Patek’s release on parole in 2022 and difficulties reintegrating into society, including trouble finding work due to his criminal past, led to the business launch supported by businessman David Andreasmita.
- The coffee business uses Patek’s image and brand, named RAMU Coffee, with plans to share earnings with bombing survivors and to symbolize his claimed reformation from bomb making to brewing peace.
- Survivors and victims’ families expressed mixed reactions, with some offering forgiveness while others strongly condemned the venture, calling it despicable and doubting Patek's remorse.
- The event highlights Indonesia’s deradicalisation efforts but also raises debate on accountability and forgiveness amid ongoing trauma from the deadliest terror attack in the country’s history.
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Indonesian jailed over 2002 Bali bombings starts coffee business
SURABAYA: An Indonesian convicted in the deadly 2002 Bali nightclub bombings has launched his own coffee business after being released on parole, and has said he will use some of the earnings to help survivors of the attacks. Umar Patek, a member of the al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah group, was jail
·Singapore
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Sentenced in 2012 to twenty years in prison, but released in 2022 following a reduction to his sentence, Umar Patek now markets his coffee mix. On Tuesday, he gathers a small crowd at the Hedon Estate coffee shop.
·Paris, France
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