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...have picked up during his recent visits to Russia and China, where he was bothered by the lack of freedom but impressed by the way that vast work projects were organized. Such notions did not suit Soekarno's old friend and Indonesia's longtime Vice President Mohammed Hatta, whose remedy is to replace Indonesia's multiparty parliamentary government with something more like the U.S. system. Four weeks ago, fed up with Soekarno's refusal to listen to his ideas, respected Mohammed Hatta resigned the vice-presidency...
Last week, in his first interview since his resignation, Hatta told TIME Correspondent Paul Hurmuses: "There is great unrest and uneasiness throughout Indonesia today. We are democratic in Indonesia today all right-ultra-democratic . . . We have got to have a strong government." (One suggestion for a stronger government came from the fugitive Colonel Lubis, who offered to surrender if Soekarno would make Hatta Premier and fire the army's chief of staff...
Buffalo Revolt. Reeling under the combined disapproval of Soekarno, Hatta and much of the army, leaders of eight non-Communist parties last week closeted themselves in the home of Djakarta's mayor to come up with a "housecleaning program." To most politically savvy Indonesians, however, it appeared doubtful that the parties were in a position to make reforms sufficiently drastic to restore their shattered reputations. "A Cabinet crisis now," said one political boss, "would mean the end of democracy here...
...Colonel Ahmad Husein, an ex-guerrilla leader who was called "the Tiger of Central Sumatra" for his exploits against the Dutch during the revolution. Husein turned over titular authority of the region to 37-year-old Colonel Simbolon, a Dutch-educated Protestant who only a year ago was Mohammed Hatta's candidate for chief of staff. Simbolon announced that he would rule Central Sumatra independently until the central government " met "the people's demand for economic improvement...
...much independence as possible, the Dutch had wanted to retain as much sovereignty as possible. But eventually the Dutch and the Indonesian delegates grew to trust and understand each other. One weekend motor trip to Namur, in Belgium, helped to break the ice; Indonesia's Premier Mohammed Hatta and the Dutch Minister for Overseas Territories, Johan van Maarseveen, reached some important decisions chatting in their car. Explained Van Royen: "It doesn't pay to try to be too clever. The only way to gain confidence is to treat people as normal equals. The fortunate thing is that...