Word: indonesia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three weeks, while his revolt-torn country rocked along with no government other than himself. Indonesia's President Sukarno sat back and bided his time. His own choice, a hapless politician named Suwirjo, tried in vain to form a new government, but gave up, muttering: "Thank God it's over...
...department wants $228 million for various and sundry expenses, including, we suppose, plane fare and tranquilizer pills. Some of the concrete requests include $260,000 for "recreation facilities." These include a tennis court in Iraq, a clubhouse in Yugoslavia, a swimming pool in Port Said, a mountain retreat in Indonesia, a beach house on the Gold Coast, and a cabin boat for Martinique. Moreover, the State Department requests $135,000 for American participation in the non-existent Suez Canal Users Association...
...Democracy with opposition," complained Indonesia's President Sukarno recently, "is not right for us. It is suitable for Westerners, but not for Orientals." Whether Sukarno & Co. had been practicing Western-style political democracy in their chaos-and revolt-torn young republic for the past seven years was at least a debatable point. But whatever they had tried, it was definitely not working...
...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 to these items of resentment was anger at rampant government corruption. By last week, military commanders had proclaimed...
Later, Sukarno received his colonels at the palace, in a backslapping meeting reminiscent of a class reunion. When photographers' flashbulbs popped around Sukarno's onetime bodyguard, Lieut. Colonel Ventje Sumual, who had taken power in East Indonesia, Sumual protested in Dutch: "My God, you all think I'm a rebel! I'm not, you know." And he meant it. What Sumual and his fellow officers, rebellious but at the same time eager to be loyal, wanted was an end to corruption, to inefficiency, and to Sukarno's odd persistence in wanting Communists in the government...