Sambas riots

Sambas riots
Part of post-Suharto era
Location of the regency (kabupaten) within the province of West Kalimantan on the island of Borneo.
LocationSambas Regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia
Date1999
Deaths200–1,000 (overwhelming Madurese)

The Sambas riots were an outbreak of inter-ethnic violence in Indonesia in 1999 in the regency of Sambas, West Kalimantan province and involved the Madurese on one side and an alliance of the indigenous Dayak people and Sambas Malays on the other.

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