Word: djakarta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each day brought reports of new seizures of Dutch properties. Thirty Dutch-owned steamships were seized in Indonesian waters. Dutch property transfers were placed under stringent control. In Djakarta the Nederlandse Cultuurbank and the last of the "Big Five" Dutch export-import firms were taken over by Indonesian management. The central government ordered some 500 Dutch agricultural estates throughout the islands (sisal, palm oil, spices) placed under the supervision of the Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture...
...northern Sumatra to the Moluccas, apprehensive Dutch nationals (there are 46,000 of them throughout the islands) took refuge in their homes as Indonesian workers swarmed through the streets, forcibly took over Dutch commercial installations. The Netherlands was summarily ordered to close every consulate in the republic except for Djakarta's. Dutch nationals were told they would be expelled from the country immediately. The expulsion order, said Justice Minister Gustaaf Adolf Maengkom, meant "within three days, if I have my way. But that is impossible...
Last Flight. At Djakarta's sprawling port of Tandjong Priok, lean little Indonesian commandos swirled up in dusty U.S. trucks and mounted guard over Dutch ships and port facilities. In the capital itself, workers of the Communist-dominated SOBSI (an all-Indonesia association of trade unions) ejected Dutch officials from the gleaming white colonial buildings that house the Royal Packet Service Co. (K.P.M.) and the Netherlands Handelsbank...
Seizures & Censors. Indonesian censors laid a heavy pencil on outgoing news. All Dutch publications, films and news agencies were banned. In Djakarta, Indonesian papers reported that Indonesian passengers and crewmen had forcibly prevented Dutch captains from diverting Dutch-owned ships into "neutral ports." The Indonesian government ordered its 5,000 nationals in The Netherlands to leave at once. In Paris, Foreign Minister Subandrio declared that a complete break in Indonesian-Dutch diplomatic relations was "only a matter of time...
Sukarno had motored out to Djakarta's upper-crust Tjikini elementary school, where three of his six children are students, to participate in the school's anniversary ceremonies. He made a brief speech, nibbled refreshments and tried his hand at the school shooting gallery. As he left the building and headed for his black Chrysler limousine, a pistol shot rang out. Then five hand grenades sizzled through the air and exploded almost at the President's feet. At the sound of the pistol shot an adjutant leaped to protect Sukarno's body with his own. Somehow...