ICC Note:  Christians in Indonesia are still  vulnerable after the three suicide bombing attacks that took place simultaneously during their Sunday worship services. Many became martyrs or lost a loved one as a result of the attack and are trying to find answers or resignation.

5/28/2018 Indonesia (UCA News) – The last time Khori Han saw his neighbor Dita Oepriarto, was “at the hour of the Fajr,” the dawn prayer for Muslims.

A few hours later that day, May 13, Dita Oepriarto, his wife Puji Kuswati and their four children aged just 9 to 18, blew themselves up almost at the same time outside three churches in Indonesia’s second largest city.

Oepriarto “was very active in the mosque,” says Han. “That’s where I met him most of the time, because he never missed any of the five daily prayers, but he avoided discussing religion.”

Two weeks after the deadliest attacks in the country since the 2002 Bali bombings that claimed the lives of 202 people, the inhabitants of Surabaya, more than 80 percent of them Muslim, continue to look for answers.

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