Word: bogor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suharto's restrained private tastes also please his countrymen. While former President Sukarno continues to live in a palace at Bogor even in exile, Suharto lives modestly in the same suburban Djakarta cottage that he occupied when he was an obscure army officer. He plays an occasional round of golf, spends a day at the seaside or mountains and takes bicycle rides near his home, during which he sometimes scolds neighbors who do not keep their property tidy. Suharto's wife Titi (Sukarno had seven wives in all) often appears beside her husband in public, dutifully entertains diplomats...
...locked cabinet, and the keeper of the key was old Father Sukarno, 66, who was still mad enough about being deposed that he refused to hand it over. President Suharto even sent a delegation out to the Bung's "retirement" villa at Bogor to appeal to his patriotic sentiments. Nothing doing, said Sukarno: "This is my flag. My wife made it"-as indeed his first wife had. Nothing daunted, Suharto sent soldiers to break open the cabinet and bring him the flag...
Indonesia reacted with unexpected calm to the fall of Sukarno, who declared Indonesia's independence from The Netherlands in 1945 and has reigned as sole ruler for 22 years. The golden presidential flag no longer flew from his Bogor Palace outside Djakarta, to which Sukarno retired last week to await the return of his Japanese wife Ratna Sari Dewi, 27, from Tokyo, where she recently gave birth to a daughter. Almost overnight, his picture disappeared from government offices. Sukarno will henceforth be referred to only as "Doctor Engineer" Sukarno, in deference to his academic training, will not be allowed...
...owned by Texaco and Standard Oil of California) and Stanvac (owned by Jersey Standard and Mobil), managed to keep operating. Other companies lost longtime investments: U.S. Rubber had to give up 54,000 acres of rubber plantation, and Goodyear Tire & Rubber lost two plantations and a tire plant at Bogor, near the capital. Though ridiculously low repayments were negotiated, no money has yet changed hands; a first order for the Sultan of Jogjakarta, the triumvirate member charged with economic development, is to work out settlements...
Lured by such overtures, old Indonesia hands are filtering back. U.S. Rubber has replaced its former Indonesian output through other plantations in Liberia and Malaysia, but it will likely buy Indonesian rubber. Goodyear is negotiating to return. Its first task if it does: to restore efficiency at the Bogor plant, where tire output is off two-thirds since U.S. managers were kicked out. Union Carbide hopes to reclaim its battery plant, may also start tungsten mining. Caltex, which recently signed a five-year $50 million contract to supply the Indonesian government with lubricating oils and grease, has set aside...