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鈥淚 would wait and wait for my mum at the mosque鈥�.because my dad told me she had gone to God鈥檚 house鈥�

Sarah, together with her father and brother, meets the bombers who killed her mother as she and her family attempt to understand how the men who carried it out could be followers of the same faith 鈥� and claim to carry out the act in the name of Islam.

On her 5th birthday Sarah鈥檚 mother died from injuries sustained in a terrorist attack. She was the victim of a car bomb that exploded outside the Australian embassy in the Indonesian capital Jakarta in 2004.

It was one of a series of bombings carried out by a local Islamist militant group Jemaah Islamiyah or J-I who were responsible for the country鈥檚 worst terrorist attack 鈥� the bombing on the holiday island of Bali in 2002 that killed more than 200 people.

J-I members Rois and Ahmad Hassan are now on death row for their role in the bombing that killed Sarah鈥檚 mother.

For Heart and Soul, in the first of two programmes as part of the Crossing Divides series on the 大象传媒 World Service, Rebecca Henschke witnesses the extraordinary meeting between Sarah and her mother鈥檚 killers on Indonesia鈥檚 highest security prison island.

Presented and produced by Rebecca Henschke

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