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A series of terrorist attacks by ISIL-linked groups on churches, police headquarters and an apartment complex in Surabaya and Sidoarjo in 2018. The bombings killed 28 people, including the attackers, and injured 57 others.
Learn about the history and design of the 132-meter obelisk in Central Jakarta that commemorates the Indonesian independence struggle. The monument has a museum, a flame of independence, and a hall of history with reliefs and dioramas.
Hang Tuah was a legendary figure in Malay literature, who served as a loyal laksamana (admiral) to the Malacca Sultanate in the 15th century. He was involved in various adventures, such as fighting Taming Sari, persuading Tun Teja to elope, and defeating Hang Jebat.
The 1998 riots, also known as the 1998 tragedy, were mass violence and civil unrest in Indonesia that led to the fall of the New Order government. The riots were triggered by economic problems, corruption, and ethnic tensions, and resulted in over a thousand deaths, rapes, and material damage.
Wayan Mirna Salihin was a graphic designer who died in 2016 after drinking a coffee laced with cyanide at a mall in Jakarta. Jessica Kumala Wongso, a former Australian resident, was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder, which became a national sensation in Indonesia.
Shortly after the attack, the deputy police chief of Selangor state, Abdul Rahim Jaafar, ruled out the possibility of it being a terrorist attack, [8] and said the motive was business rivalry, revenge, or a targeted killing since a similar attack happened in 2014 when a man was killed and 13 others injured after a grenade exploded outside a pub in Kuala Lumpur that was linked to gambling kingpin.
A list of events that are recognized as genocides by significant scholarship, with estimates of deaths, locations, periods, and descriptions. Genocide is the intentional destruction of a group based on national, ethnic, racial, or religious identity.
The 1997–98 El Niño Event had various effects on tropical cyclone activity around the world, with more tropical cyclones than average occurring in the Pacific basins. . This included the Southern Pacific basin between 160°E and 120°W, where 16 tropical cyclones in the South Pacific were observed during the 1997–98 season compared to an average of aroun