It's called "sate". In Malay Indonesie "sate" is a piece of barbeque roasted meat on a stick.
I'm sure in ancient times far more than 1000 women a year were roasted in that region.
It was called “Sati”, and there is a linguistic connection to Sati, consort of Rama. Has nothing to do with cooking.
Women were not forced to enter the funeral pyre of their husbands, unless there was degradation and corruption, what to speak of horrible cruelty going on. It is forbidden in this yuga anyway. The actual system was that in ancient times, sometimes wives were so devoted to their husbands that they would voluntarily - note that word - enter the cremation fire of their husbands. They felt the fire of separation more painful than the loss of their bodies. This accomplished, according to the Vedas, two things.
1. It assured they would go with their hubands wherever they went, so they would be together in their next lives.
2. If the husband had some bad karma accumulated, the wife’s sacrifice would help purify him and grant him a better next life.
Peoples’ ideas of this practice are generally not correct. Keep in mind that the English and the Muslims lied about Indian Hindu customs and religion in order to justify their conquests and rapine. It was in ancient times not that commonly practiced and was invariably voluntary.