Word: djakarta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Incensed by governmental corruption and by the irregularity and inadequacy of its pay, the republic's husky (168,000 men), well-equipped army was openly restive. In mid-November, when 500 troops started a march on Djakarta, the capital was paralyzed with fear, and though the coup was called off at the last minute and several commanders relieved of their posts, the rebellious leader, former Army Deputy Chief of Staff Colonel Zulkifli Lubis, was still at large last week...
...especially among Asians) has been grievously shaken. The uncommitted countries, still fighting the shadows of Western colonialism and inclined to discount the actuality of Soviet imperialism, could see a spectacle of foreign domination at its brutal worst. In Indonesia an official spoke of "Soviet colonialism," strange words on a Djakarta tongue...
Today Christian faces Moslem in a new sort of encounter. From Marrakech to Djakarta, the nations of Islam's teeming household (close to 322 million members) are bursting with newly won freedom and touched with the spirit of change. For the first time, Christian and Moslem face each other on equal ground and with mutual need. It is high time, says Author Cragg, for Christians to re-examine their relationship with the children of the Prophet...
While back in Indonesia, President Sukarno was crying (in English) "Hands off Egypt!" at a Djakarta mass meeting, one of his delegates was saying privately in London: "We young nations need the tools of industrialization that come to us through the canal−and we cannot afford, as you can, to have them go round the longer and more expensive way. This is what we are telling Nasser." France's Foreign Minister Pineau made the same point to the conference, in a shrewd effort to divert the issue from Nasser's cry of colonialism...
Last week an army spokesman flew into Djakarta to woo popular support for the army's new sideline. "The army smuggles continuously and purposely," he said, and challenged the Attorney General to prove any graft. "Our books show that it has not been done for personal gain but to finance the building of barracks and other expenditures for troops...