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Banyuwangi (bän'y  wäng`ē), city (1980 pop. 90,378), E Java, Indonesia, opposite Bali on Bali Strait. It is a railroad terminus and the seaport for shipment of passengers and goods to Bali. It is also spelled Banjuwangi or Banjoewangi. |
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In the eastern-most tip of East Java, a region called Banyuwangi (meaning 'fragrant water'), in late 1998 to early 1999, mobs hunted down individuals suspected of sorcery and then stabbed, hacked and beat them to death. His starting point is the affair of the "Ninjas of Banyuwangi," which took place between September and December 1998 and featured a mysterious series of murders of several traditional faith healers and young Muslim intellectuals by balaclava-wearing goons. On the basis of an exhaustive and imaginative analysis of harbour masters' surviving reports of fifteen ports on Java and Madura, ranging from Banten via Batavia to Banyuwangi, for the years 1774 to 1777, he offers a reconstruction of their shipping movements, commodity flows, vessel typology and master ethnicity. |
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