Word: djuanda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier of his Emergency Cabinet, Sukarno designated Dr. Djuanda, 45, a soft-spoken and widely respected banker, engineer and government planner who has served in 12 posts in the 16 preceding Cabinets that have tried, all unsuccessfully, to govern Indonesia since 1945. When Djuanda returned from a visit to Peking two years ago, he said: "Red China's claim of ability to extend economic or technical aid to Indonesia is nothing but a hoax...
Most Indonesians trusted Dr. Djuanda; they did not trust Sukarno's pro-Red ministers. Principal target of criticism was Stalin Peace Prizewinner Prijono, whom Sukarno named Minister of Education. Opposition politicians (including the powerful Moslem anti-Communist Masjumi Party, Indonesia's second largest, which ordered a boycott of the Cabinet), objected to at least three other Communist-line ministers...
...civil war the rest of the world has known little and cared less about. Darul Islam's toll during 1952: 1,836 murders (average: five a day), 461 kidnapings, 1,201 tortured, 6,934 houses burned, 14,075 robberies. Commenting on the figures, Indonesian Communications Minister Dr. Raden Djuanda gingerly surmised: "It might be well to study the situation...