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In West Kalimantan, after the killings ended in 1967, indigenous pagan Dayaks expelled 45,000 ethnic Chinese from rural areas, killing as many as 2,000 to 5,000. The Chinese refused to fight back since they considered themselves "a guest on other people's land" with the intention of trading only.
- 1965–1966
- Indonesia
- 500,000: 3 –1,000,000+: 3
Dec 26, 2021 · In November 2021, Correspondents of the World organised an online conversation with special guest Dr Soe Tjen Marching on the experiences of Chinese-Indonesians during the mass killings and imprisonment of alleged communists during 1965/66 in Indonesia.
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Dec 17, 2009 · In 1967, Indonesian military units killed probably thousands of Chinese Indonesians in the province of West Kalimantan as part of the suppression of ethnic Chinese guerrilla units formed to operate in neighbouring Sarawak as part of Indonesia's confrontation of Malaysia.
- Robert Cribb, Charles A Coppel
- 2009
Violence against Chinese also took place in 1965 after the failed coup attempt during anti-communist purges; [1] the main target of the killings were Native Indonesian communists. In May 1998, many Chinese businesses were burned down and many Chinese girls and women were raped and murdered.
Historically the ethnic Chinese have frequently been persecuted in Indonesia and as a result of this and other discriminatory policies they were concentrated in the cities in the 1960s. Because the killings were most intense in rural areas they were not especially targeted, although many suffered property loss or damage (Cribb, 2001a and Coppel ...
Oct 19, 2017 · In 1965, the Indonesian army began a calculated massacre against supporters of the country’s communist party. Within a year, at least 500,000 people were killed. As Colin Dwyer reports for NPR ...
Jul 24, 2019 · ABSTRACT. The mass killings of 1965–1966 in Indonesia marked a watershed in its history. The consensus estimate of lives lost is 500,000. In this paper, demographic and geographic methods are used to characterize the violence in Central Java, one of the worst-affected provinces.
