Robert Siegel talks with John Aglionby, Southeast Asia correspondent for The Guardian about the massacre of 118 Madurese people on the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo. Ethnic tension between the Dayak and Madurese people is the cause of the conflict. The Dayak are natives to Borneo and are mostly subsistence farmers. The Madurese migrated to Borneo as part of a government policy and are mostly traders and shop owners. Several hundred Madurese were slaughtered in a field after they had boarded trucks and thought they were being evacuated to the island of Madura.

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