Word: djuanda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indonesia's ships are Dutch, and so are the captains. There are hardly any Indonesian pilots, and government officials dared not order Dutch captains to sea lest they surrender their ships to hovering Dutch warships. As the government's fury at its own helplessness mounted, Premier Djuanda and Army Chief of Staff Major General Abdul Haris Nasution arbitrarily ruled that "all waters around, between and connecting the islands belonging to the Indonesian archipelago ... are an integral part of national waters, subject to the absolute sovereignty of Indonesia . . ." In Paris, Western diplomats promptly protested that this was an infringement...
...Sukarno's inflammatory denunciation of the Dutch for their refusal to hand over West Irian (the western portion of New Guinea). But in the crisis' second week, the Indonesian government made clear that when there was seizing to be done, the government would do it. Premier Djuanda sharply toned down Sukarno's "hate-the-Dutch" campaign, said that Dutch citizens and Dutch properties would receive full government protection. SOBSI agitators were told by army and government officials to keep hands off. One summary Djakarta pronouncement put all Dutch enterprises in east Java, central Sumatra and the southern...
Nerves & Rumors. In Amsterdam, London and New York, investment bankers waited nervously for each new report from Djakarta. Then at midweek Premier Djuanda announced that Sukarno was tired and exhausted from overwork, would leave shortly for rest and recuperation in a friendly country, presumably India or Egypt. In Sukarno's absence, Parliament Speaker Sartono would serve as Acting President, working in cooperation with Premier Djuanda and Major General Abdul Haris Nasution, chief of staff of the Indonesian army. There was talk that former Vice President Mohammed Hatta, who resigned last year in protest against Sukarno's attempt...
...politically, Sukarno has become increasingly dependent on the Reds as his earlier supporters became disillusioned. But even before Sukarno left the country, General Nasution, who participated in an abortive anti-Sukarno coup in 1952, was moving like a man firmly in the saddle. Backed by Premier Djuanda and most other Indonesian moderates of all parties, he ordered all worker seizures of Dutch properties to stop immediately. All army leaves were canceled, troops ordered into battle readiness and put on a stand-by basis...
...Djuanda and Nasution were obviously intent on proving that the Indonesian government would keep order, proceed on its unpromising course with due and careful deliberation...