BBC updates Indonesia Profile from 1940-2011
A chronology of key events:
circa 1940: Dutch colonialists eating in Java Dutch colonialists were the masters of Indonesia until 1949
1670-1900 – Dutch colonists bring the whole of Indonesia under one government as the Dutch East Indies.
1928 – A youth conference pledges to work for “one nation, one language, one people” for Indonesia.
1942 – Japan invades Dutch East Indies.
1945 – The Japanese help independence leader Sukarno return from internal exile and declare independence
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2011 February – Two churches are set alight in central Java during a protest by hundreds of Muslims about blasphemy.
Three members of the Ahmadiyah sect, a minority Muslim group, are bludgeoned to death in a mob attack in West Java.
2011 June – Radical cleric Abu Bakar Ba’asyir gets 15-year jail sentence for backing an Islamist militant training camp.
2011 August – One of alleged masterminds of 2002 Bali bombings, Umar Patek, is extradited from Pakistan.
Categories: Ahmadiyyat: True Islam, Indonesia