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The Rengasdengklok Incident (Indonesian: Peristiwa Rengasdengklok) was the kidnapping of Sukarno and Hatta by several youths (pemuda) at around 4 am on August 16, 1945 to persuade the two men to declare Indonesian independence.
The Tanjung Priok massacre was an incident that occurred on 12 September 1984, in the port area of Tanjung Priok, Jakarta, Indonesia.Government reports give a total of 24 killed and 54 injured, while survivors report over 100 killed when military personnel opened fire on protestors.
Portuguese Malacca: 1511–1641: Dutch–Portuguese War: 1601–1661: Dutch Malacca: 1641–1824: Pahang Kingdom: 1770–1881: Straits Settlements: 1786–1946
The Talangsari incident (Indonesian: Peristiwa Talangsari) was an incident that occurred in the village of Talangsari, Lampung, Indonesia in 1989, where Islamist civilians were massacred by Indonesian Army troops. The civilians had formed an Islamist commune, which developed tensions with local residents and authorities.
In the afternoon of 25 January 1946, a group of newly enrolled Indonesian Military Academy cadets in Tangerang led by Major Daan Mogot went to a Japanese base in Lengkong, in what is today South Tangerang, in order to discuss disarmament of the Japanese troops and acquire their weapons. [1]
The May 1998 Indonesia riots (Indonesian: Kerusuhan Mei 1998), [1] also known colloquially as the 1998 tragedy (Tragedi 1998) or simply the 98 event (Peristiwa 98), were incidents of mass violence and civil unrest in Indonesia, many of which targeted the country's ethnic Chinese population.
The Malari incident (; Indonesian: Peristiwa Malari, short for Malapetaka Lima Belas Januari, "Fifteenth of January Disaster") was a student demonstration and riot that happened on 15 and 16 January 1974 in Jakarta. [1]
The Tanjung Morawa affair (Indonesian: Peristiwa Tanjung Morawa, lit. 'Tanjung Morawa event') was a clash between peasant squatters and the police which occurred on 16 March 1953 in Tanjung Morawa, North Sumatra.