Palangkaraya

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Palangkaraya is the capital city of the Central Kalimantan province of Indonesia. The population of the municipality is 160,018 (2000 census).

The city, along with other parts of central Kalimantan, was the site of ethnic violence between the indigenous Dayak people and Madurese immigrants in 2001. Several thousand Madurese, who had moved to Kalimantan as long as twenty years earlier, were evacuated to other islands to escape the violence.

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