Word: buwono
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thought something should be done about this state of near-anarchy is handsome Hamengku Buwono, 40, Sultan of Jogjakarta and Indonesia's Defense Minister. A 24-carat Sultan with an impeccable anti-Dutch background and the strongest man in the government, he decided to pull together at least one corner of the disorganized fabric: the army. The Indonesian army is an unwieldy, unreliable mob of 250,000 poorly armed, badly disciplined ex-guerrillas who grabbed guns to fight the Dutch, stayed on as "soldiers." Enthusiastically backed by his professional high command, the Sultan ordered unfit ex-guerrillas dismissed...
While the Sultan of West Borneo served Holland, another Indonesian potentate, Sultan Hamengku Buwono of Jogjakarta, threw his own hereditary power on the side of the revolutionary Republic. As the Republic's Defense Minister, the Sultan of Jogjakarta built a Republican army out of scattered guerrilla bands...