And we're talking about like hundreds of thousands of people killed in like a couple of years.

Absolutely.

And the true history of the genocide against leftists, if you wanted to simplify and say this was a US-supported military coup that allowed this new order to consolidate control, the true history of this event remains largely unknown.

Most historical records were intentionally destroyed.

Many have been since lost.

You know, the New Order regime from 1968 all the way to 98, 99 intentionally sub subjugated this history, made sure that both internationally and within the Indonesian populace, this history was not well understood.

So to your point of numbers, you know, the latest You know, estimates is closer to a million people were killed in a manner of few years, largely organized through paramilitary form, a topic I've written about before.

How did they sort of preserve that culture? you know memory even of like maintaining this connection to the land after generations effectively of dealing with these well as far as they were concerned like foreign oppressors regardless of whether they were Dutch or whether they came from Jakarta you know yeah can you talk a bit about them