Word: bukittinggi
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...spearhead of Indonesian marines had already pushed inland against light resistance. At the Padang airfield, eight miles north of town, government planes strafed gun positions while 200 paratroopers drifted down at the field's edge. Within twelve hours, the rebel defenders were in flight along the road to Bukittinggi, 58 miles away, and Padang was firmly in the control of Djakarta's Colonel Achmad Jani, who had learned his lessons well at the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kans...
Some 10,000 government troops converged on the battered remnants of four rebel battalions defending their capital, Bukittinggi. The two-month-old rebellion, which aimed at the overthrow of President Sukarno and his Red-encouraged experiment in "guided" democracy, seemed at the point of extinction...
Colonel Simbolon, who marched off with one battalion to take command of the rebel forces in North Sumatra, last week was back in Bukittinggi without 1) his troops, 2) report of victory. In the eastern foothills of the Sumatra mountains, government troops from the oil center of Pakanbaru had pushed the rebels back within 70 miles of Bukittinggi. To the south, the government's hard-working paratroopers were inching through the jungle to cut the last rebel artery to the outside-the potholed road that leads to Palembang in South Sumatra...
...government's blockade, deprived of its revenues by government seizures of its oilfields, Padang had few resources left. The rebel capital of Bukittinggi was preparing for the defeat. Its population of some 120,000 has been halved as residents moved out to the hills...
What had gone wrong with the rebel cause? It was not a lack of arms. Their Premier, Sjafruddin, boasted last week that there was ammunition enough for a ten years' war. Over the weekend, two more airdrops of arms occurred at Bukittinggi, parachuted down from planes of "unknown" nationality, reputedly Nationalist Chinese...