Bird’s Eye View to Indonesian Mass Conflict Revisiting the Fact of Self-Organized Criticality

could see that the Ambon’s conflict took many places as it also took great number of
casualties in the time of conflict and social mobilizations. From our database, the long time
tragedy of the Ambon’s conflict was begun on January 1999 and it took place at places like
Mardika, Sanana, Telaga Kodok and Benteng Karang, Waiheru, Kaimiri, Hilla Vilage, and
Hunuth, all located in the Ambon Island and in the area of Ambon City (see fig. 1).

Figure 1. The geographical features of social conflict and civil violence in Maluku, Ambon (1999-2004)

The first clash had more than recorded twenty casualties and after that the conflict
and “hatred” between the conflicting social identities seems to be contagious as the killings
were spread throughout the Ambon islands. The quiet and peace suddenly had changed into

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