We didn't blog about the riots in Pontianak, Indonesia, while we were there. Apparently for two nights in a row, the Muslim Indonesians rioted. We did not find out why, nor did we see any information about the riots in the newspapers. We found out about the riots by people we traveled with on the bus to Kuching. They said that they had gone out to eat and photographed the riots while we were sitting in the hotel lounge listening to music. Apparently a few years ago the Muslims had also rioted and had chopped off a few heads, but this time there were no heads lying around.
Most of Indonesia is Muslim, being the largest Muslim country in the world. But the indigenous people of Kalimantan, the province where Pontianak is located, are mostly Christians, and mostly Catholics. The government has tried to get people to immigrate to Kalimantan from the other islands and other Muslim countries to work in in this sparsely populated country, but apparently there are problems.
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