Word: djakarta
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...death as in life, Sukarno was a problem. As Indonesia's deposed President last week succumbed at 69 after a long bout with kidney stones and high blood pressure, Djakarta's new leaders pondered the questions of how much to mourn him and how much to memorialize him. Indeed, many Indonesians were in a quandary over their bapak (father). Some felt that they should pay homage to him as the founding father who proclaimed Indonesia's independence in 1945 and spawned a sense of national identity. Others were prepared to damn him as the profligate...
...indulging his egotism and appetites. Women flocked around the East's premier playboy; at least six married him. He affected fancy uniforms and such titles as "Great Leader of the Revolution." Priceless objets d'art filled his sumptuous palaces. Skyscrapers and ornate monuments rose in otherwise seamy Djakarta-many of them later to stand starkly uncompleted for lack of funds...
...conference of 12 Asian nations* that began in Djakarta last week could lay the groundwork for assistance. The conference is likely to produce calls for support of Cambodian neutrality, withdrawal of all foreign troops and the sending of observers to the embattled country...
...figures importantly in Indonesia's economic development plans, and Djakarta is, in effect, counting its wells before they are proved out. Deeply in debt after years of misrule under former President Sukarno, the country owes $2 billion to foreign creditors. If oil is produced on a large enough scale, it will strengthen Indonesia's economy and finance sorely needed development...
...naval base and established a humming business supplying the offshore oilmen with pipe, chemicals and even food. Shell has built a $60 million refinery in Singapore, and Esso is putting up another. An estimated 1,500 Americans have moved in, including the families of several executives who commute to Djakarta, 557 miles away...