Indonesia: Ethnic Minorities

Ongoing ethnic-religious conflicts, with recent outbreaks across Indonesian regions.
 
Indonesia has six faiths, though it is 86% Islamic. As a varied nation, it has multiple local conflicts, with ethnicity, land rights and religion lying at their core. Repression, immigration and misgovernment are major causes of conflict, going back to policies of forced transmigration in Dutch colonial and the Suharto times.
 
1966-98, Suharto’s de-islamicisation campaign favoured Catholics in government. Pressure on tribespeople to affiliate with the official religions has led to revolts or evasion tactics.
 
The longest-running conflict is in East Papua, over human rights and marginalisation arising from Indonesia’s takeover in 1969 - native Papuans resisting Muslim Indonesian control. Communal conflicts also exist in Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Java and Eastern Indonesia, and secessionist conflicts have flared up in Aceh and Maluku. Religion, misgovernment and historic Javanese imperialism all play a part.
 

Links:

Wikipedia: Religions in Indonesia
Library of Congress: Indonesian Ethnic Minorities