| Fash said that it had all started with clashes in Karengpangi, Sampit, at which the Dayaks and the Madurese had serious misunderstandings in December. |
| Clashes between Dayaks and the economically better-off Madurese have occurred for many years in Borneo. |
| A Madurese community leader told me how he had been asked by the local government to sign a peace declaration with the Dayaks. |
| Borneo has been rocked by ethnic tension between Dayaks and Madurese for many years. |
| In the 1999 Sambas riots, Dayaks and Malays joined together to massacre thousands of the Madurese migrants. |
| Many sympathised with Dayaks as an indigenous people dispossessed of their forests by rapacious New Order development. |
