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After World War II, the Indonesian Communist Party threw itself into democratic politics and outreach to broad segments of society. Western intelligence agencies were worried because they knew that the PKI was not coercing people into giving them power — they were simply growing in popularity.
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Miners in East Java face deadly smoke to mine sulfur, or "devil's gold." In this episode of Risky Business, we head to Ijen volcano to find out.
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