Indonesia blasts Bali bombings 'monstrous' fail
Yudhoyono makes remark as country prepares to remember 200 who died 10 years ago
Ten years after the Bali bombing, Indonesia's president said the "monstrous act of terror" failed in its aim of fracturing the nation.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's comments came as 2,000 police and military personnel, including snipers, were deployed across the island, after "credible information" of a threat to today's commemorations.
Bali's deputy police chief I Ketut Untung Yoga Ana said authorities were "ready to tackle any kind of terror threat" during the event, attended by Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
The bombings in the predominantly Muslim nation on October 12, 2002, by al-Qaeda-linked group Jemaah Islamiyah, opened an Asia front in the war on terrorism a year after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the US.
More than 200 people died in the blasts on Bali's party strip - mostly Western tourists, but also including 38 Indonesians.
Yudhoyono, who was security affairs minister at the time, said the atrocity had only brought the country closer together. "Whatever the motivation and calculation of the terrorists, the Bali bomb attack did not produce its desired effects," he wrote in .
"In fact, it resulted in just the opposite. Throughout Indonesia, Muslims, Hindus, Christians and Buddhists overwhelmingly condemned the attack and repudiated those who misused religion to carry out acts of violence.
