List of massacres in Indonesia

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The following article is a list of massacres that have occurred in Indonesia.

Name Date Location Deaths Notes
Banda massacre 7 March – late 1621 Lontor, Maluku 2,500–2,800 Genocidal massacre of the Banda people by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) under Jan Pieterszoon Coen during the Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands.
Massacre of ulema by Amangkurat I 1648 Sultanate of Mataram 5,000 - 6,000 Around 5,000-6,000 ulemas and their family members were slain within less than thirty minutes. This massacre was ordered by Sultan Amangkurat I in order to exact revenge, since two days before his own younger brother Prince Alit tried to overthrow him
1740 Batavia massacre 9 October – 22 November 1740 Jakarta 10,000+ Pogrom of the Chinese community of Batavia by the VOC under Governor-General Adriaan Valckenier.
Kuta Reh massacre 14 June 1904 Kuta Rih [nl], Aceh 561 Massacre of the inhabitants of Kuta Reh by the Korps Marechaussee te voet of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL) under General Gotfried Coenraad Ernst van Daalen during the Aceh War.
1918 Kudus riot 31 October 1918 Kudus, Central Java c. 10 Pogrom of the Chinese community of Kudus by Javanese residents.
1942 Qantas Short Empire shootdown 30 January 1942 Timor Sea off West Timor 13 The Corio, a Short Empire flying boat airliner, operated by Qantas, was shot down by Imperial Japanese Naval Air Service aircraft in the early days of the Pacific War during World War II off the coast of West Timor, Thirteen occupants were killed. Captain Aubrey Koch, along with another crewman and three passengers, swam to shore and were rescued.
Laha massacre February 1942 Ambon, Maluku 309 Massacre of Australian and Dutch prisoners of war (POWs) by the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) under General Takeo Itō during the Dutch East Indies campaign.
Bangka Island massacre 16 February 1942 Bangka, Bangka Belitung Islands 82 Massacre of Australian and British nurses and POWs by the IJA following the Fall of Singapore.
Balikpapan massacre 24 February 1942 Balikpapan, East Kalimantan 78 Massacre of Dutch civilians and POWs by the 56th Division of the IJA during the Dutch East Indies campaign.
Pig-basket atrocity 1942–1943 Throughout the Indonesian Archipelago Unknown Killings of Allied POWs by the Japanese Kempeitai and the IJA under General Hitoshi Imamura during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies.
Pontianak incidents 1943–1944 Kalimantan 20,000+[1] Massacres of various Borneo demographies, in particular local ethnic Malay elites, by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies.
Bersiap killings August 1945 – November 1947[2] Throughout the Indonesian Archipelago 3,500–30,000 Revolutionary and intercommunal killings of Chinese, Europeans, Indos, Japanese, Minahasans, Moluccans, and other demographies by (fellow) native Indonesians during the Indonesian National Revolution; in particular between the surrender of Japan in August 1945 and the arrival of the Dutch military in March 1946.
Bulu prison massacre August 1945 Semarang, Central Java 200+ Massacre of Japanese POWs by Indonesian revolutionaries during the Indonesian National Revolution. In response, over 2,500 Indonesians were massacred by the Japanese.
South Sulawesi campaign 10 December 1946 – 21 February 1947 South Sulawesi 4,600–5,000 Killings of Sulawesi civilians during the Indonesian National Revolution; 3,100–3,500 people killed by troops of the KNIL and the Korps Speciale Troepen (KST) under Captain Raymond Westerling, and approximately 1,500 people killed by Indonesian revolutionaries.
1947 Yogyakarta Dakota incident 29 July 1947 Ngoto, Bantul 8 A Douglas C-47 Skytrain carrying medical supplies to the national government of Indonesia, was shot down over Ngoto, Bantul with only one survivor of the nine aboard. The Dutch initially denied complicity but would eventually pay restitution.
Mergosono massacre 31 July 1947 Malang, East Java 30 Pogrom of the Chinese community of Mergosono by Indonesian revolutionaries during the Indonesian National Revolution.[3]
Rawagede massacre 9 December 1947 Balongsari [id], West Java 431 Massacre of the inhabitants of Rawegede by KNIL troops under Major Alphons Wijnen during the Indonesian National Revolution.
Rengat massacre 5 January 1949 Rengat, Riau 400–2,600 Massacre of the inhabitants of Rengat by KST troops under Lieutenant Rudy de Mey during the Indonesian National Revolution.

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