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Thus, for example, indigenous Dayaks in Kalimantan who were aggrieved by their marginal status attacked rival Madurese in 1996-97, "when Suharto's regime was nearing its end and a succession crisis was looming" and because riots elsewhere had already "shown the vulnerability of the state's repressive apparatus and opened up the horizon for political change" (p. In Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), since 1997 native Dayaks have fought Madurans who have been immigrating with government encouragement since the 1950s. In 1997, during the turmoil leading up to the fall of the Suharto regime, Dayaks attacked Madurese, seeking to drive them out of Kalimantan. |
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