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On 31 March 1981, authorities stormed Garuda Indonesia Flight 206 in Bangkok, Thailand killing five of the Islamic terrorists who had hijacked the domestic flight over Indonesia. [18] In May 1998, race riots broke out throughout the country, resulting in largescale fatalities and over 150 reported rapes. [19]
May 20 – East Timor regains its independence after 2-and-a-half years of United Nations administration and 26 years of occupation by Indonesia since 1975. [1] June 5 – The first of the 2002 Poso bus attacks takes place. July 9 – At least 46 people were killed after a fire broke out at a karaoke venue in Palembang, South Sumatra. [2] [3]
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Timeline of Indonesian history; List of years in Indonesia; Events in the year 1946 in Indonesia. The country had an estimated population of 69,973,500 people. [1]
Year Date Event 200 BCE "Dvipantara" or "Yawadvipa", a mystic Hindu kingdom is mentioned in India's earliest epic, the Ramayana; Sugriva, the chief of Rama's army dispatched his men to Yawadvipa in search of Sita then later used by the Indianized islander of Java Island and kingdom of Portugal to name the island during the age of discovery.
The history of Indonesia has been shaped by its geographic position, natural resources, a series of human migrations and contacts, wars and conquests, as well as by trade, economics and politics. Indonesia is an archipelagic country of 17,000 to 18,000 islands stretching along the equator in Southeast Asia .