Unfortunately, in other respects the Ambon crisis is proving to be no laughing matter.

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Clashes between Christians and Muslims on the eastern island of Ambon have left over 50 people dead.

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Wahid, however, has vowed to take action against those who try to wage a jihad in Ambon.

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"The military is always on the frontline in the conflicts here, " says Josy Palnaya, a Christian leader in Ambon, Maluku's provincial capital.

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Early Sunday morning, one of the Ambonese Christians (from the eastern Indonesian town of Ambon) evidently threw a rock through a window of a mosque.

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As the account traveled - and became embellished - within the Christian community in Ambon (and elsewhere in Indonesia), everyone was sure the victim was a Christian.

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On Jan. 19, the first day after the Muslim fasting month, a quarrel broke out between a Muslim migrant and a Christian minicab driver in Ambon, the provincial capital.

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