Word: palangkaraya
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...soldiers were brought to Sampit a week after the massacres broke out to restore order, but Madurese houses continued to go up in flames long after their arrival. "That's not our job," was the bored comment from a soldier watching a house being torched in the regional capital Palangkaraya. The government of President Abdurrahman Wahid was characteristically supine. Wahid himself went on a religious pilgrimage to Mecca three days after the killing began and has yet to return...
...What lies behind the appalling savagery of the Dayaks? It's a question that Kma Usop, a Dayak cultural leader and a professor at Palangkaraya University, strains to answer, his words pouring out in an emotional stream as he lights an unending series of Pall Mall cigarettes. "The Dayaks are in a panic, they are feeling marginalized. They have been provoked for many years. The Madurese are violent. They fight in the markets and in the farms. We don't have similar problems with the Buginese or Chinese or Javanese...
...killing appears to have halted and life is gradually returning to normal in Palangkaraya. Yet fear is still very much in the air. It's almost impossible to find a car in the city that doesn't fly a red ribbon or piece of cloth from its antenna or wing mirror, a sign of loyalty to the Dayak cause. Neighborhoods remain blocked by makeshift barricades of logs and stones...
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