List of massacres in Indonesia

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Name Date Location Deaths Notes
Banda massacre 7 March – late 1621 Lontor (Banda Besar) 3,000 Banda natives
1740 Batavia massacre October–November 1740 Batavia 10,000+ Chinese Indonesians
Pontianak incidents 1943–1944 Kalimantan 20,000+[1] Ethnic groups of Kalimantan
Bulu prison massacre August 1945 Semarang, Central Java 200+ Japanese POWs
Rawagede massacre December 9, 1947 Rawagede, West Java 431 Civilians of Rawegede
Westerling massacre December 1946-February 1947 South Sulawesi 3,900 Civilians of South Sulawesi
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 Rimor
1998 East Java ninja scare 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.[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]
Sampit conflict February 18, 2001 Sampit, Central Kalimantan 500 Dayak people massacred Madurese migrants

References
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  7. Donald L. Horowitz (25 March 2013). Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia. Cambridge University Press. pp. 34–. ISBN 978-1-107-35524-8.
  8. Collins 2002 Archived 2015-02-13 at the Wayback Machine, p. 597.
  9. 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
  10. 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.
  11. 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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