The Dayaks once lived a nomadic existence in the island's vast forests.

ECONOMIST: Indonesia

But the emphasis on imposing stability over finding solutions meant that many social frictions - such as that between Dayaks and Madurese - festered.

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In West Kalimantan they have found themselves living alongside the Dayaks, a warrior people with an elaborate etiquette that shuns confrontations, except for full-scale tribal wars.

ECONOMIST: Indonesia

The latest violence resurrects the conflict that erupted in early 1997 in the same area north of the provincial capital Pontianak between Dayaks and Madurese, whose roots lie in the island of Madura off the northeast coast of Java.

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