List of massacres in Indonesia
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Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes |
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Banda massacre | 7 March–late 1621 | Lontor (Banda Besar) | 3,000 | |
1740 Batavia massacre | October–November, 1740 | Batavia | 10,000+ | Chinese Indonesians |
Pontianak incidents | 1943–1944 | Kalimantan | 20,000+[1] | |
Bulu prison massacre | August, 1945 | Semarang, Central Java | 200+ | Japanese POWs |
Westerling massacre | December, 1946–February, 1947 | South Sulawesi | 3,900 | Civilians of South Sulawesi |
Mergosono massacre | 31 July, 1947 | Malang, East Java | 30 | Chinese community of Mergosono |
Rawagede massacre | 9 December, 1947 | Rawagede, West Java | 431 | Civilians of Rawegede |
Rengat massacre | 5 January, 1949 | Rengat, Riau | 1,500–2,600 | Civilians of Rengat |
Indonesian mass killings of 1965–1966 | October, 1965–March, 1966 | Indonesia | 400,000–3,000,000 | Transition to the New Order |
Santa Cruz massacre | 12 November, 1991 | Dili, East Timor (then part of Indonesia) | 250+ | Civilians of East Timor |
1998 East Java ninja scare | 1998 | Banyuwangi, East Java | 143 | A witchhunt in Banyuwangi against alleged sorcerers spiraled into widespread riots and violence. In addition to alleged sorcerers, Islamic clerics were also targeted and killed, Nahdlatul Ulama members were murdered by rioters.[2][3] |
May 1998 riots of Indonesia | 4–8 and 12–15 May, 1998 | Major riots occurred in Medan, Jakarta, and Surakarta with a number of isolated incidents elsewhere | 5,000 | There were dozens of documented accounts of ethnic Chinese women being raped. Other sources note over 1,500 people were killed and over 468 (168 victims in Jakarta alone) were mass gang-raped in the riots. There is a possibility of 5000 dead. However, most of the people who died in the riots were the Javanese Indonesian looters who targeted the Chinese shops, not the Chinese themselves, since the looters were burnt to death in a massive fire.[4][5][6][7][8] |
Biak Massacre | 6 July, 1998 | Biak Numfor Regency, Papua | 150+ | Indonesian military attack public gathering, conduct executions, dump bodies at sea. |
Sambas riots | 1999 | Sambas Regency, West Kalimantan | 3,000 | In the Sambas riots in 1999 Muslim Malays and Animist Dayaks joined together to massacre the Muslim Madurese during the Sambas conflict. Madurese were mutilated, raped, and killed by the Malays and Dayaks and 3,000 of them died in the massacres, with the Indonesian government doing little to stop the violence.[9][10][11] |
2000 Walisongo school massacre | 28 May, 2000 | Poso, Central Sulawesi | 191 | Religious conflict, part of the Poso riots |
Sampit conflict | 18 February, 2001 | Sampit, Central Kalimantan | 500 | Dayak people massacred Madurese migrants. |
References[]
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- ^ Category: Edition 62: Apr-Jun 2000. "The Banyuwangi murders". Inside Indonesia. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
- ^ Liebhold, David (1998-10-19). "That New Black Magic - TIME". Content.time.com. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
- ^ Gerry van Klinken. "Inside Indonesia - Digest 86 - Towards a mapping of 'at risk' groups in Indonesia". Archived from the original on 2000-09-20. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
- ^ "[Indonesia-L] Digest - The May Riot". Library.ohiou.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-03-25. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
- ^ ""Over 1,000 killed in Indonesia riots: rights body Reuters - June 3, 1998 Jim Della-Giacoma, Jakarta", "The May riots DIGEST No.61 - May 29, 1998"". Archived from the original on February 13, 2015. Retrieved May 2, 2015.
- ^ Donald L. Horowitz (25 March 2013). Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia. Cambridge University Press. pp. 34–. ISBN 978-1-107-35524-8.
- ^ Collins 2002 Archived 2015-02-13 at the Wayback Machine, p. 597.
- ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia-pacific/1186401.stm http://www.culturalsurvival.org/ourpublications/csq/article/violence-indonesian-borneo-spurs-relocation-ethnic-madurese http://indahnesia.com/indonesia/SAMPEO/people.php
- ^ John Braithwaite; Valerie Braithwaite; Michael Cookson; Leah Dunn (2010). Anomie and Violence: Non-truth and Reconciliation in Indonesian Peacebuilding. ANU E Press. pp. 299–. ISBN 978-1-921666-23-0.
- ^ Eva-Lotta E. Hedman (2008). Conflict, Violence, and Displacement in Indonesia. SEAP Publications. pp. 73–. ISBN 978-0-87727-745-3.
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