List of massacres in Indonesia
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| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1740 Batavia massacre | October–November 1740 | Batavia | 10,000+ | |
| Rawagede massacre | December 9, 1947 | Balongsari, West Java | 431 | Indonesians of Rawegede |
| Westerling massacre | December 1946-February 1947 | South Sulawesi | 3,900 | |
| Indonesian killings of 1965–1966 | October 1965-March 1966 | Jakarta, East Java, Bali | 400,000–2,000,000 | Transition to the New Order |
| Banyuwangi massacre | 1998 | Banyuwangi, East Java | 143 | A witchhunt in Banyuwangi against alleged sorcerers spiraled into widepsread riots and violence. In addition to alleged sorcerers, Islamic clerics were also targeted and killed, Nahdlatul Ulama members were murdered by rioters.[1][2] |
| 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.[3][4][5][6][7] |
| 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.[8][9][10] |
| Sampit conflict | February 18, 2001 | Sampit, Central Kalimantan | 500 | Dayak people massacred Madurese migrants |
References
- ^ Category: Edition 62: Apr-Jun 2000. "The Banyuwangi murders". Inside Indonesia. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ 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". Web.archive.org. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
- ^ "[Indonesia-L] Digest - The May Riot". Library.ohiou.edu. 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"
- ^ 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, 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.
