Indonesia extends over an area of nearly 1904340 km2, and stretches over 5000 km, is composed of no less than 13000 islands and form for centuries a barrier that filters equatorial oceans Indian and the Pacific. The size and diversity make a complex, and she alone, more than 40% of the total land area of ten states in Southeast Asia.

Indonesia, the first Muslim country in the world, is not an Islamic state, it is not the country of a single religion, and if adherence to Islam certainly seems dominant, the major religions previous n ' have not disappeared.

Thus, the contemporary Indonesia still preserves the historic relics of Hinduism and Buddhism.

In such circumstances, the Malay language, dice answered the thirteenth century through commercial networks and proclaimed official language in 1945.

The presiding Sukarno, founder of the Indonesian National Party (PNI) in 1929, proclaimed on August 17, 1945 the country's independence.

The five years that followed were marked by struggles between the pro-independence Indonesians to Dutch colonists who refused to renounce their former colony.

It was not until December 27, 1949, after a meeting at a round table, as the Netherlands recognized the independence of Indonesia, provided for a federal state involving both partners.

The project was eventually abandoned and August 17, 1950, the Republic Indonesia was again and finally proclaimed.

The presiding Sukarno remained at the helm of the country for a little over twenty years. His reign, increasingly chaotic as the years progressed, was marked by the rise of regionalist who claims déstabilisèrent partly national unity.

But it was in 1965 that the presiding Sukarno was finally removed from power by General Suharto. It had previously benefited from the coup d'etat of September 30, 1965 in order to engage with the help of the army, in a hunt for communists, which ended in the deaths of more than 500,000 Indonesians, it was one of the largest massacres of the century.

A report by the CIA in 1968 claiming that the massacre of Indonesian communists, in 1965-1966, is one of the most tragic event of the century, but also one of the most ignored.

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