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There was no substantiation of rumors heard in Amsterdam that Sukarno had been ousted by a triumvirate including Premier Djuanda and the chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Abdul Harris Nasution, and headed by Mohammed Hatta, former vice president and Sukarno's chief partner in the Indonesian revolution...
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Dec. 9--Defense Minister Djuanda Kartawidjaja ordered all Dutch plantations and allied enterprises put under government direction tonight...
...tribute to Djuanda's personal political stature, as well as to his powers of persuasion, that the conference convened at all. Among those assembled were the rebellious army colonels who in recent months have staged a series of bloodless revolts in Sumatra, Borneo and East Indonesia against the central government and President Sukarno's plans for introducing "guided democracy" into Indonesia. The young colonels, headed by fair-skinned, 35-year-old Lieut. Colonel Ventje Sumual, put their faith in the one Indonesian whose prestige is at all equal to Sukarno's: Mohammed Hatta. Hatta...
Colonel in Disguise. Despite Djuanda's fervent appeal for openhearted and brotherly discussion at last week's conference, the people in the shed eyed one another mistrustfully throughout. Before the conference began, Colonel Sumual carefully disguised himself as a Chinese merchant and made a secret trip from Celebes to Sumatra to confer with his fellow rebel colonels. They decided to attend the conference only if Premier Djuanda and Mohammed Hatta would guarantee their personal safety. This the two statesmen agreed...
Colonel Sumual was officially invited only as the delegate of "North Celebes," but after the conference opened, he stated his position with blunt and studied nonchalance. Said he pointedly: "I speak for East Indonesia." Chairman Djuanda interrupted. "Have you the consent of other East Indonesian areas [i.e., the Moluccas and Bali]?" "Yes," snapped Sumual, then launched into a vigorous attack against central government corruption...