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Poso riots. The Poso riots, also known as Poso communal conflict, is a name given to a series of riots that occurred in Poso, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. This incident involved a group of Muslims and Christians in the region and was divided into three stages. The first Poso riot took place from December 25 to 29, 1998, continued from April 17 ...
The Walisongo school massacre is the name given to a series of terrorists attacks by Christian militants on May 28, 2000, upon several predominantly Muslim villages around Poso town, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia as part of a broader sectarian conflict in the Poso region. Officially, the total number killed in the attacks is 367, [4] but there is ...
2005 Indonesian beheadings of Christian girls. On October 30, 2005, three Christian girls: Theresia Morangke (15), Alfita Poliwo (17), and Yarni Sambue (17), were beheaded by Muslim jihadists in Poso on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, an area plagued by sectarian violence since 2001. [1] The attackers planned the beheadings after visiting ...
119.9 m 3 /s (4,230 cu ft/s) [1] Basin features. River system. Poso River. The Poso is a river of Central Sulawesi on Sulawesi island, Indonesia, about 1600 km northeast of the capital Jakarta. [2] The Poso is approximately 100 km long and flows from Lake Poso, about 2 km west of the town of Tentena to the city of Poso and then into the Gulf of ...
Poso was the administrative center of Landschap Poso, Onderafdeling Poso, and later Afdeling Poso during colonial times. Amid World War II , the Japanese made Poso one of their military posts. Post-independence , Poso was chosen as the capital of the newly formed Central Sulawesi in 1948 before the capital was moved to Palu in 1951.
Malino I Declaration or Malino Declaration for Poso is a peace treaty initiated by the government of Indonesia on December 20, 2001, in Malino, Gowa Regency, South Sulawesi. This agreement brought together Christians and Muslims who fought in Poso in communal conflict from 1998 to 2001 , also known as Poso riots.
Lake Poso. / 1.92444°S 120.61667°E / -1.92444; 120.61667. 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Lake Poso ( Indonesian: Danau Poso) is a lake in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, and the third-deepest lake in Indonesia. The town of Pendolo is situated at the southern end of the lake, the town of Tentena is located at the northern ...
Pamona people. The exchange of cotton cloth (bride-wealth) at a To Pamona wedding in 1991. The Pamona (often referred to as Poso, Bare'e, or To Pamona) people is an ethnic group of Indonesia. They inhabit almost the entire Poso Regency, parts of Tojo Una-Una Regency and parts of North Morowali Regency, Central Sulawesi; in fact there are some ...