List of massacres in Indonesia

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Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Notes
1740 Batavia massacre	October–November 1740	Batavia	10,000+
Massacre of Bau miners	1857	Bau (then part of Indonesia)	3,000
Pontianak incidents	1943-1944	Kalimantan	20,000+[1]
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	400,000–3,000,000	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.[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 Province	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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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.