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Then Sukarno stepped boldly into the breach he himself had opened. As Djakarta's sunset gun heralded an end to the day's fasting for the Moslem Ramadan, Sukarno summoned 69 leading Indonesian politicians and 60 of his top-ranking military leaders through a driving tropical downpour to the vaulted, marble-floored State Palace. In one bank of chairs on one side of the hall sat the civilian politicians of all persuasions. Facing them across a space of 20 feet sat the military men-who are, to a man, disturbed by the politicians' bickering. With a proper...
Loyal Rebels. Last week, faced with threat of open (and quite probably bloody) civil war, Sukarno proclaimed a "state of siege and war," asked his dissident military commanders to confer with him in Djakarta. As the colonels began winging in, hapless Premier Sastroamidjojo drove up to the presidential palace on a humid tropical night and handed his chief, from a thin blue portfolio, his resignation. To try to put together another government, Sukarno named the little-known head of Sastroamidjojo's Nationalist Party, an ex-mayor of Djakarta named Suwirjo...
...President Sukarno was eager for the government to take in the Communists, who held 39 seats in Parliament. Second, local politicians and military commanders all over the Indonesian string of 3,000 islands accused the government of being "Java-centric." Java, site of the capital city of Djakarta, has two-thirds of the country's population. But though Java accounts for only 17% of Indonesia's exports, it gobbles up a disproportionate slice (73%) of its imports. Sumatra, on the other hand, contributes 72% of Indonesia's exports in return for 20% of its imports. Added...
Ironically enough, it was the Communists themselves who seemed about to destroy any chance they may have had for inclusion in the government. All week long Red agitprop specialists spattered Djakarta's buildings with red-paint slogans supporting Sukarno's proposal. Across the city's swill-strewn byways and broad, palm-lined boulevards diligent Communist cadres hung hortatory banners. The Red campaign was the most impressive show of organized political strength Indonesians had seen in years, and to many Indonesian politicians it was also the most frightening...
...Djakarta's press, disliking Sukarno's plan but hesitant to criticize him, kept silent until Hatta spoke out against Sukarno's proposal to set up a "guided democracy" with all parties represented. "Oil and water," Hatta snapped, "don't mix." Hatta had a sane and solid answer to Sukarno's oft-repeated plea that "we cannot ignore the 6,000,000 people who voted for the Communist Party." Said Hatta: "Leave them in the opposition.'' Encouraged by Hatta's stand. Djakarta newspapers took...