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1945
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11.10.1945
Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, is celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
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1949
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12.27.1949
Indonesian National Revolution: The Netherlands officially recognizes Indonesian independence. |
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1950
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1955
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4.18.1955
Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
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1957
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12.5.1957
Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia.
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1961
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12.18.1961
Indonesia invades Netherlands New Guinea.
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1965
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10.1.1965
General Suharto crushes an attempted coup in Indonesia.
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1966
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3.12.1966
Suharto takes over from Sukarno to become President of Indonesia.
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1967
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1975
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1976
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7.17.1976
History of East Timor: East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia. |
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1979
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1991
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10.5.1991
An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137. |
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11.12.1991
Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor. |
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1997
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9.26.1997
A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A-300 crashes near Medan, Indonesia, airport, killing 234.
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12.19.1997
SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.
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1998
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5.13.1998
Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped. |
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1999
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9.12.1999
Indonesia announces it will allow international peace-keepers into East Timor. |
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2001
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1.29.2001
Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
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10.19.2001
SIEV-X, an Indonesian fishing boat en-route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sinks in international waters with the loss of 353 people. |
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2002
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5.20.2002
The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and 3 years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).
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2003
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8.5.2003
A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150. |
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2004
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11.30.2004
Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
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2005
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3.28.2005
The 2005 Sumatran earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the second strongest earthquake since 1965.
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5.27.2005
Australian Schapelle Corby is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in Kerobokan Prison for drug smuggling by a court in Indonesia.
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8.18.2005
Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people.
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9.5.2005
Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes into a heavily-populated residential of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 people on board and at least 39 persons on ground.
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2007
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1.1.2007
Adam Air Flight 574 disappears over Indonesia with 102 people on board.
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2009
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3.27.2009
Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
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