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At that timethe dawn of the colonial erathe Pasuruan area was a "cauldron of warfare" (Elson 1984, I).
In the Pasuruan lowlands, youth organizations associated with militant NU leaders initiated the attacks even before the army or local government was in a position to coordinate or restrain their actions.
This was Pasuruan, after all, home of the strongest NU organization in all Java, and NU longstanding rival of the smaller upland PNIwas at the forefront of the violence.