Made Kana knows more than he would like about bombs. In October 2002, when al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists blew up two Bali nightclubs, the nearby home from which he runs his laundry business was badly damaged, and for more than a year after that he insists his house was haunted by the ghosts of the 202 who died that night.

The ghosts have moved on, Mr Kana says. But when terrorists attacked Bali again on October 1 this year, leaving 23 dead including three suicide bombers, other traumatic memories came back all too quickly, and seven weeks on he is confronting another personal and all-too-familiar economic crisis. His laundry business, dependent on tourists, is again struggling and his home workshop, which sits behind the empty lot that once housed one of the nightclubs destroyed in the 2002 attack, is too quiet for his liking.