Madiun

[mah-dee-oon]

noun

1. a city on E central Java, in Indonesia.

Example Sentences

National police spokesman Dedi Prasetyo said Thursday that the counterterrorism squad arrested suspected militant instructor Joko Supriono in East Java’s Madiun town on Tuesday, and eight others were apprehended separately in Central Java province.

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Stoked by frequent evocations of the Madiun Affair of 1948, in which Communist rebels murdered some Muslim leaders before they were defeated, many Muslims were sold on the idea that they were victims of Communist aggression.

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The deadliest before Tuesday was the 2009 crash of a C-130 near the city of Madiun in East Java, which killed 97 passengers and crew members and two people on the ground.

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Nigerian Martin Anderson chose to be buried in the West Java town of Bekasi, and fellow Nigerian Raheem Agbaje, wanted to be buried in the East Java town of Madiun where he had been a prisoner.

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"To this second, I don't know what I did wrong, why I was held, why I was beaten every night for six years, why they tore out my nails and ... electrocuted me," Parmoen Soedjarwo told Reuters, sitting in his simple, red-roofed house in Madiun in the agricultural heartland of East Java where much of the violence occurred.

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