Will violent history repeat itself?


Changing landscape: An aerial view of Sepaku district in East Kalimantan which will be part of the new administrative capital of Indonesia. — Reuters

A veteran journalist believes it could happen if Indonesians politicians don’t learn from past episodes of communal violence.

In the 2000s, when Indonesian journalist Andreas Harsono was researching the Kalimantan chapter of his book Race, Islam And Power, there were already talk that Indonesia might relocate its capital from Jakarta to Borneo.

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