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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was a time when Bogor Palace was a fun place. Indonesian President Sukarno would sweep in triumphantly from a hot-lipped harangue in downtown Djakarta, pull the black Moslem cap of leadership from his balding head, toss aside his girdle, and relax in sandals and slacks with his lovely Japanese wife Devi. The legion of servants, the carefree dinners, the delight of being on top -all of it made Bogor a pleasure dome beyond compare. Not any longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: The Light That Fails | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

...take over control and put an end to the growing power of the Communists. It gains color from the fact that Sukarno did not even appear at the funeral of the slain officers. Next day, as Sukarno called his Cabinet into emergency session at his summer palace in Bogor, Nasution did not show up-but two Communist ministers did, along with Air Force Chief General Omar Dani, a Communist sympathizer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: Wanted: A Magician | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

Sukarno is a sick man (kidney and gall-bladder trouble), and it seems likely that the sudden rash of plotting represented maneuvers for position by factions anticipating his departure from the scene. Seven Chinese doctors constantly attend him, and he stayed all week at Bogor. But he didn't look very ill as he paced his palace corridors. In fact, his familiar charm seemed still to have some of its old effect. The army reluctantly called a halt to its roundup of Communists and even anti-Red newspapers were responding to the call for unity. But if, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: Wanted: A Magician | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

...crushed, and Nasution's spokesman derided Untung's charge of a generals' plot as merely a pretext for his own personal coup. Sukarno was reported "safe and well," and rumor had it that the President was waiting out events at his summer palace in Bogor, 30 miles from Djakarta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: After an Evening with Morning Star | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

President Sukarno of Indonesia is probably the most footloose head of state since Richard the Lionhearted. Last week, as is his yearly wont, he took leave from his Djakarta palace and his lesser palace at Bogor, with its surrounding park stocked with small white deer, to fly off on a three-month junket in a chartered DC-8 (estimated charter cost: $600,000) to Thailand, South America, Europe, Moscow and Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: Absorbed, Crazed & Obsessed | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

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