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Australia has refused to lower the scale of its travel warning for Indonesia, four months after the bombings on the island of Bali which killed at least 194 people.
In a meeting with Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer on Tuesday, Indonesian Tourism Minister I Gede Ardika asked for the travel advisory to be toned down, insisting that security had improved in the wake of the attacks.
The twin bombings in Bali’s famed nightclub area, on 12 October 2002, killed 88 Australian nationals.

He said: “You were drooling over the prospect to take these children into the woods and rape them.
“These logs were further spiced…by the swapping of pornographic images of young children.”
The Metropolitan Police said it was the first time internet chat logs had been used to prove a charge of conspiracy to rape a child.
Det Con Dave Adams said: “These three men took a step beyond fantasy and had actually identified the children they would target, the location where they would approach them and what exactly they planned to do to them.
“It is appalling to consider the potential repercussions if this hadn’t come to police notice.
“This case should act as a really stark warning that the internet is not a hiding place to plan and participate in criminal acts.”
Jurors heard the men were arrested after Beavan walked into Bournemouth police station and told officers what was going on in January 2006.
Beavan, 42, a greeting card salesman, of Shackleton Square, Bransgore, Hants, claimed he was just a “vigilante” gathering evidence against paedophiles, but was convicted of two counts of conspiracy to rape.
Film make-up artist Alan Hedgcock, 41, from River Way in south-west London and Robert Mayers, 42, of Brighton Street, Cheshire, were found guilty of the same charge.
All three admitted various charges including 50 sample counts of distributing, making and possessing thousands of indecent images of children