Word: djakarta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...post-election diplomatic reception in Djakarta last week, a Western newsman remarked to Nationalist Party Leader Ali Sastroamidjojo: "I reckon you are pleased with the way things have turned out." Retorted the ex-Premier with a smile: "I reckon...
...other companies in 1946. Although they were mostly old and dog-eared, they were an instant hit. People on both sides of the Iron Curtain thumbed them to tatters. In Belgrade, Yugoslavs used them to learn English; in Athens, a shoemaker designed new shoes from the illustrations; in Djakarta, Indonesia, a Chinese tailor copied an entire Sears wedding ensemble, down to the flower girls' dresses. The impact even reached Moscow, where Russian diplomats consulted the catalogues on what to wear in the U.S. They are now so highly valued that old copies are patched up and rebound...
...months the betting was evenly divided among foreigners in Djakarta that Indonesia's long-postponed first national election would be postponed still longer. For even an experienced government the problem might have seemed overpowering: to register an honest vote for more than 1,000 candidates, representing 172 parties, by 43 million voters who are more than 50% illiterate and speak some 200 different dialects, at 93,000 polling places in a primitive country that is 3,000 miles long and cut up into 3,000 islands. For the young (6 years), inexperienced Indonesian Republic, beset with a desperate economic...
...with the dedication and determination of people who had fought long and bitterly for the right to govern their own affairs, the Indonesians persisted. This week, from the crowded streets of Djakarta to the head-hunting regions of Borneo, Indonesians get their chance to elect their leaders...
Bark Instead of Bite. In last week's campaign windup at a Communist strong hold near Djakarta, a pretty 24-year-old girl intensely pleaded the Masjumi line: "The Communists stabbed us in the back . . . The welfare of our people depends on Allah, not on Malenkov or Mao Tse-tung." A crowd of 2,000 barefooted workers and women listened impassively cheered lustily. But a larger crowd a mile away cheered, too, when a Communist speaker harangued against "Dutch imperialism," and accused the Masjumi of selling out Indonesia to the U.S. Similarly...