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This is the sixth episode of Nusantara, a series on the history of Indonesia.

Nusantara is a word that refers to the vast geographic archipelago that only through

centuries of colonial capitalism and the struggles against it became a nation, one whose

boundaries, identities, and purpose remain

contested to this day. This episode begins with one of the worst acts of political violence of

the 20th century, the mass murder of Indonesian communists. It was a genocide that successfully aimed to destroy the Pkii,

the world's largest communist party outside of China and the Soviet Union, through the murder

of between 500,000 and 1 million people. Some estimates, in fact, go as high as three million killed.

Suharto deposed Sukarno and inaugurated the authoritarian and corrupt New Order regime,

which would remain in power until Suharto's fall in 1998. The pretext for the mass killing was the 30th of September

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