They hate you because of me - One dead, thirteen injured and another bomb placed near a Maranatha church defused.
Asia Pacific News is reporting that in the city Ambon during the last three days three bombs where planted and exploded. The latest bomb exploded in the market in the Christian sector of the city.
The government is attempting to quell the Muslim-Christian violence which began on April 25 when it is reported that 38 people were killed and hundreds of homes and buildings where set afire.
Sporadic violence is continuing even though the government has sent in hundreds of extra troops and police.
Two blasts on Sunday injured five Christians in what national police chief Da'i Bachtiar described as an attempt to provoke more trouble.
"It is regrettable that there are still people who want to provoke trouble. But thank God, people can no longer be easily provoked," Bachtiar said on Monday, adding that police would search for weapons in the city.
The CIA WorldFact Book lists Indonesia as the worlds largest archipelago. Some of the difficulties the country currently faces are:
...alleviating widespread poverty, implementing IMF-mandated reforms of the banking sector, effecting a transition to a popularly-elected government after four decades of authoritarianism, addressing charges of cronyism and corruption, holding the military and police accountable for human rights violations, and resolving growing separatist pressures in Aceh and Papua.
The population is 235 million. The religions in the country break down as such:
Muslim 88%, Protestant 5%, Roman Catholic 3%, Hindu 2%, Buddhist 1%, other 1% (1998)
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