Word: bogor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without the Indonesian people I'd be nothing but an ordinary person. It's only in the name of the people that I am an occupant of palaces at Merdeka and Negara, Bogor and Tjirpani...
President Sukarno's ambitious attempt to resolve his country's chronic crises by executive fiat got off to a crackling start last week beneath the lofty colonial ceilings of the summer palace at Bogor, 30 miles up in the Javanese hills from the sweltering capital of Djakarta...
...female prerogative as those in any U.S. midwestern town, were icy with disapproval, but there was little they could do about it. Blessed by Islamic law and local custom, the nation's second First Lady, a divorcee of 32, was duly ensconced in the presidential palace at Bogor. Cleaving loyally to the first First Lady, 31-year-old Fatmawati, all that the indignant clubwomen could do was to snub the interloper (TIME, Oct. 24) and refer to her with a sneer as "that woman in Bogor...
Even then the women might have subsided if Hartini had been content to accept the modest status of second wife. But she briskly moved her whole Solo household and her five children into Bogor Palace, began to entertain old friends, receive officials and carry on for all the world like Indonesia's First Lady, while Fatmawati shrank into the background. Whenever Soekarno traveled, Hartini traveled with...
While a herd of spotted mouse deer grazed under the banyan trees nearby, five men who speak for nearly a fourth of the people in the world gathered inside an old palace in the Indonesian resort town of Bogor last week. The Prime Ministers of India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Indonesia-the so-called Colombo Powers-came together to plan history's first political conference of the nations of Africa and Asia. Questions to be settled were: where, when, why and whom to invite...