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The Maluku sectarian conflict was a period of ethno-political conflict along religious lines that occurred in the Maluku Islands in Indonesia, with particularly serious disturbances on the islands of Ambon and Halmahera.
Jul 19, 2000 · Several thousand people have died and hundreds of thousands have become refugees in the last eighteen months as the result of inter-communal fighting in Indonesia’s Maluku islands. The conflict continues at a high level of intensity despite the declaration of a state of emergency in June 2000.
Located in the Maluku archipelago of Indonesia, the Maluku people saw a rise of conflict that took place in the late 1990s to early 2000s. This ethno-political conflict that flirted with religious ties, led to the conflict on the Ambon and Halmahera Islands (Lestari 2019).
Dec 10, 2009 · Jacques Bertrand. Chapter. Get access. Cite. Summary. In January 1999, sudden and surprising violence broke out between Christians and Muslims in Indonesia's province of Maluku. Previously seen as a stable region in the archipelago, it quickly became the site of devastating inter-religious strife.
- Jacques Bertrand
- 2003
The Maluku Islands sectarian conflict was a period of ethno-political conflict along religious lines, which spanned the Indonesian islands that compose the Maluku archipelago, with particularly serious disturbances in Ambon and Halmahera islands.
Feb 26, 2020 · Conflict returned to Maluku when sectarian tensions between Ambon’s Muslim and Christian communities erupted into open warfare in February 1999. To borrow from Christopher Koch’s book about the turmoil of 1965, this was Indonesia’s second “year of living dangerously”, and Ambon was one of the most violent of the many flashpoints which ...
provide an in-depth chronology (or chronologies) of the North Maluku conflict based primarily on nineteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in the region during the immediate post-conflict period. This data is supplemented by twelve months of research in pre-conflict North Maluku in 1995-96.
