Word: kalimantan
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...dangers on the ground, listen to Baharudin Isa, the half-Dayak regional secretary for Sampit. Sitting in the relative calm of his office a few hundred yards from the teeming mass of refugees camped around the regional administrative building, a visibly exhausted Baharudin describes what autonomy will mean in Kalimantan...
...countries?and municipalities. It's a radical shift in the way Indonesia is governed, decided upon in direct response to restive populations in Aceh, Irian Jaya and Riau. The autonomy program, however, also encourages resentments and jealousies as it disenfranchises some local bureaucrats. Soon after the killing began in Kalimantan, police arrested three men for paying 20 million rupiah ($2,129) to incite violence between Dayaks and Madurese. Two of the men were civil servants appointed by Jakarta who had lost their jobs as part of the autonomy scheme...
...That attitude is producing a backlash at home. Students, enraged by Wahid's absence during the slaughter of the Madurese, have called for him to fly straight back from Saudi Arabia to Kalimantan. Otherwise, they've taunted, don't come back at all. Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri made a conspicuous visit to the site of the massacres at Sampit...
...harrowing Indonesian truth that what happened in Sampit could be repeated tomorrow in scores of other places in the sprawling archipelago. Most immediately, it could spread to other parts of Kalimantan where the same communal tensions are simmering, notably in the oil-rich region of Balikpapan in the eastern part of the state...
...deep into the clay of a soccer field. There have been two heavy thunderstorms in the four days since 118 children, women and men?Madurese refugees huddled together and promised safe passage?were systematically butchered on the high-school playing field in Parenggean, a logging town deep in central Kalimantan. Those rains weren't cleansing enough: in the still of a tropical afternoon, the sweet stink of putrescence hangs in the air like the unquiet spirits of those murdered here...