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...balance such troubles, Sukarno's konfrontasi, the undeclared war that poisoned Indonesia's relations with her neighbors for four years and cost Malaysia and her British allies an estimated $2 billion, was formally ended last week when General Suharto's enlightened government in Djakarta re-established diplomatic relations with Kuala Lumpur. In another tenth birthday present to Malaysia, the Filipinos signed an antismuggling pact to cut illegal trade between Sabah and Mindanao, thereby resolving an ancient territorial dispute...
...takes second place to no one. Last winter 30 embassy aides in Moscow were pummeled by irate Russians while they tried to protect a Chinese propaganda display. In April, Indonesian troops had to be called out to disperse a mob that was preparing to burn down China's Djakarta embassy. Ten Chinese aides ousted from India two weeks ago filed into their plane wearing conspicuous bandages on their heads. Expelled in reprisal for Chinese violence against two Indian diplomats, the Chinese said they had been beaten in New Delhi. Last week two Burmese climbed over a back wall...
...East and Central Java alone, 65,000 persons have been converted. In the Karoland region of North Sumatra, 16,000 have joined Christian churches. Thirty new congregations with a membership of 5,000 have been founded in one section of West Borneo. In Djakarta, 50 new Bible-study groups have sprung up-and so great is the demand for Bibles that a shortage has developed. The U.S. National Council of Churches has launched a drive for $300,000 to help Indonesian Protestants assimilate their new members...
Many converts are disillusioned ex-followers of Communism, and the highest conversion rates occur in areas that, before Sukarno's downfall, were most heavily infested with Reds. Says a Baptist missionary in Djakarta: "When Communism failed in its promise to provide these people with an inner conviction, they switched to Christianity." Less sanguine, some church leaders suspect that all too many of the converts have switched less out of faith than fear; public opinion still links atheism with membership in the banned, decimated Indonesian Communist Party...
...Achmed Sukarno, 65, recently ousted President of Indonesia; Haryati Sumantri, 27, one of his four official wives allowed by Islamic law; on grounds of disinterest (as is permitted in Islam, he simply wrote her a note telling her she was out); after four years of marriage, no children; in Djakarta. Simultaneously, Sukarno announced his secret marriage, probably three years ago, to Yurike Sanger, 21, from northern Celebes, whom he met when she was chosen to entertain at a state function...