Incident Type: Bombing

Date: January 1, 2004

Location: Kasinguncu, Poso Pesisir subdistrict

Actors: Unknown

Event: A bomb explodes at 7:15pm near an airstrip, no casualties reported.

Source: ICG Report 2005

Incident Type: Violence

Date: March 6, 2004

Location: On the road to Poso from Tojo Barat

Actors: Unknown

Event: Sugianto Kaimudin is beaten to death by two men who try to stop his bike on the road.

Source: ICG Report 2005

Incident Type: Shooting

Date: March 27, 2004

Location: Sayo, Poso City

Actors: Unknown

Event: Jhon Christian Tanalida, a resident of Kawua, is shot dead in his field at 5:00pm.

Source: ICG Report 2004

Incident Type: Shooting

Date: March 30, 2004

Location: Sintuwu Maroso University, Poso City

Actors: Unknown

Event: Rosy Tilongo SH, the dean of the Law Faculty of Poso's university is shot in the head while on the campus.

Source: ICG Report 2005

Incident Type: Shooting

Date: March 30, 2004

Location: Membuke hamlet, Tumora village, Poso Pesisir subdistrict

Actors: Unknown

Event: Reverend Perdi is shot in the chest and killed after he answers a knock on the door of his church.

Source: ICG Report 2005

Incident Type: Shooting

Date: April 10, 2004

Location: Maranda hamlet, Kilo Trans village, Poso Pesisir subdistrict

Actors: Unknown

Event: The Tabernakel Church is fired on, injuring seven.

Source: ICG Report 2005

Incident Type: Shooting

Date: May 26, 2004

Location: Palu

Actors: Tanah Runtuh/JI

Event: Ferry Silalahi is shot dead after he leaves a prayer session at the house of Palu lawyer Thomas Ihalauw.

Note: There are several cases Silalahi handled that could have been connected to his death. The day before his murder, several JI suspects were held in detention despite winning their appeal to the Central Sulawesi High Court.

Ferry had also handled drugs cases in Tangerang before being moved to Central Sulawesi.

Source: ICG Report 2005/ICG Report 2007

Incident Type: Violence

Date: July 16, 2004

Location: Pandiri village, south of Poso City

Actors: Yonatan Canda

Event: Melki, a motorbike driver, is hacked to death by Yonantan Canda, who had asked him to drive him south of the city.

Source: ICG Report 2005

Incident Type: Shooting

Date: July 17, 2004

Location: Betania, Poso City

Actors: Unknown

Event: Sudisman Mobinta is shot while he is climbing a tree to get a traditional alcoholic drink.

Source: ICG Report 2005

Incident Type: Stabbing

Date: July 17, 2004

Location: Poso City

Actors: Tanah Runtuh/JI (this case remained unsolved for years, but it is now known it was a man directly operating from the Tanah Runtuh group)

Event: Helmi Tombiling is stabbed to death at 9:00pm at her patrol stand by a man on a motorbike who had stopped to pretend to buy gasoline.

Source: ICG Report 2005

Incident Type: Shooting

Date: July 18, 2004

Location: Palu

Actors: Tanah Runtuh/JI (this case remained mysterious for a number of years, but it is now known that the shooter was Basri, from the Tanah Runtuh group)

Event: Reverend Susianty Tinulele is shot and killed in the middle of a church service she was leading at Effatha Church. Four members of the congregation are shot and injured.

Note: This was a very high profile shooting which brought a lot of attention back to Central Sulawesi.

Source: ICG Report 2005

Incident Type: Police action

Date: July 28, 2004

Location: Lore Selatan subdistrict

Actors: Police, led by Ricky Naldo

Event: Police shoot Bambang, who is suspected of being the man who shot Reverend Susianty Tinulele to death. He is lated released and the police admit it was a case of mistaken identity. Bambang was indeed innocent.

Source: ICG Report 2004

Incident Type: Shooting

Date: October 13, 2004

Location: Mauru hamlet, Kawende village, Poso Pesisir subdistrict.

Actors: Unknown

Event: One is killed and three wounded when gunmen open fire on village and then flee by boat to Poso City.

Source: ICG Report 2005

Incident Type: Bombing

Date: October 21, 2004

Location: Poso City

Actors: Unknown

Event: A bomb explodes in the yard of a house in Poso City. No casualties reported.

Source: ICG Report 2005

Incident Type: Shooting

Date: October 21, 2004

Location: Poso City

Actors: Unknown

Event: Gunmen driving by fire upon a crowd of people standing outsdie Bethani church. Hans Lanipi is wounded. Andi Makassau is arrested for the incident but not charged.

Source: ICG Report 2005

Incident Type: Violence

Date: November 4, 2004

Location: Pinedapa village, Poso Pesisir subdistrict

Actors: Unknown

Event: Carminalis Ndele is found beheaded after leaving his house with a man resembling Ahmad Laparigi. Ndele's head was dumped in a bag in the city suburb of Sayo, his body was found near Pinedapa village. Ahmad Laparigi arrested in connection with the murder but not charged.

Note: It is suspected that Ndele had refused to return part of the money allocated to his village for recovery back to Laparigi, which was common practice in Poso. The police did not have enough evidence to convict Laparigi.

Source: ICG Report 2005 

Incident Type: Bombing

Date: November 6, 2004

Location: Lembowamo, Poso City

Actors: Unknown

Event: A bomb explodes, with no casualties reported.

Source: ICG Report 2005

Incident Type: Shooting

Date: November 8, 2004

Location: Poso

Actors: Unknown

Event: Imbo is shot and killed at close range by gunmen on a motorbike while he is driving a public transport vehicle on the Tentena-Madale route.

Note: The head of the military in Poso said it seemed it was a pre-meditated murder, because Imbo was shot on the return journey from Tentena after a person hiding behind the bushes called out he had just gone past.

Source: ICG Report 2005

Incident Type: Bombing

Date: November 13, 2004

Location: Poso City central market, located 100 meters from the police station

Actors: Unknown

Event: A bomb explodes in a public transport vehicle parked at Poso's central market. Six people are killed and two are wounded (one loses both his legs and a finger, the other loses her hearing). Those killed were mostly from Sepe village.

Note: Jahya Aling is one of the survivors of this bombing and tells his story in "Which Way to the War?"

Source: ICG Report 2005, Jahya Aling Interview 2007

Incident Type: Bombing, shooting

Date: December 12, 2004

Location: Palu

Actors: Unknown

Event: Imanuel Church is bombed with one injury, Anugerah Church is fired on with two wounded.

Note: Following these attacks, Palu City Police Chief Norman Siswandi and South Palu Police Chief Sumatri Sudirman are removed from their posts.

Source: ICG Report 2005

Incident Type: Violence

Date: December 24, 2004

Location: Masani-Saatu road, Poso Pesisir subdistrict

Actors: Unknown

Event: Reverend Jembris Tamabalino and Joni Tegel are attacked by five men with knives on the road betwen Masani and Saatu villages. The police then arrested one man from a neighboring village the next day.

Source: ICG Report 2005

Incident Type: Bombing

Date: December 27, 2004

Location: Poso City

Actors: Unknown

Event: A bomb explodes in Sayo, Poso City, causing no casualties.

Source: ICG Report 2005

Incident Type: Bombing

Date: December 29, 2004

Location: Kawua, Poso City

Actors: Unknown

Event: Another bomb explodes, no casualties reported.

Source: ICG Report 2005