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...cities throughout Indonesia, housewives defied a police ban on demonstrations to march on government offices; in Djakarta, students and trade-union deputations presented petitions of protest. Reason: within seven days, the price of rice had doubled and the cost of cooking fuel had shot up 61% as Indonesia's rupiah plunged unchecked. In less than two months the rupiah (officially 45 to the dollar) had fallen from 150 to a record low of 500. Adding twirls to the inflationary spiral were the 2,500,000 Overseas Chinese who have been banned since Jan. 1 from doing business in rural...
...oilfields for making fertilizer for Indonesia's rice terraces, 2) an electric power plant for East Java. The loans, largest to be granted by the bank to Indonesia in ten years, were announced just five weeks before Soviet Premier Khrushchev's scheduled good-will visit to Djakarta. Flashing his brightest smile, President Sukarno assured housewives on a Djakarta street corner that the U.S. loans, and Soviet and Red Chinese pledges of "unlimited credit," were "proof of Indonesia's increasing solvency...
...Affandi exhibition at Djakarta this month drew a visit and some half-embarrassed criticism from Indonesia's President Sukarno. The pictures were "not ugly," Sukarno conceded, adding, "neither is the moon ugly, but it is not my world." Other critics chimed in to complain of European influences in his work...
...defended Affandi: "It does not matter if we are entirely influenced by Europe; we will meet ourselves somewhere." The customers were pleased, bought ten out of the eleven Affandi offered for a total of about 250,000 rupiahs-or the equivalent of 15 years' middle-income salary in Djakarta...
Chance to Break In. In Djakarta, Indonesia, Police Inspector M. Husin complained to the city government that Chinese convicted of minor offenses were paying substitutes high wages to serve their jail sentences for them...