Word: indonesia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...amazed European journalist noted, "an organization miracle." For a country where snafus are accepted miseries of everyday life, last week's national elections in Indonesia - following a tense campaign in which a dozen were killed and hundreds were arrested - went off with remarkable smoothness. Almost all of Indonesia's 70 million eligible voters trooped uneventffully to the polls to elect 360 members of a new parliament - in addition to 100 members appointed by President Suharto.* At week's end, the ballots were still being counted, but Suharto's military-backed Golkar, a "functional group" of professionals...
...election results came as no great surprise. In Indonesia, the military is omnipresent if not quite omnipotent, and the two main opposition groups - the Muslim United Development Party (P.P.P.) and the Democratic Party of Indonesia (P.D.I.) - had to endorse Suharto for President as a precondition for fielding any candidates at all. "There is no question that Suharto is in charge," said one foreign diplomat shortly before balloting began. "The military is united and they support him. The great mass of people think that things are as they are, and that's that...
...They say to me, you have such a mind. The bankers can't even follow." Adela spun sugarplum stories of wonderful "deals" through which she could help people multiply their money by buying land in Spain and selling it for huge markups, or by shipping Japanese cars to Indonesia, or by getting into the import-export trade. And a lot of folks, credulous and captivated, begged to get in on the action...
...names became known of other candidates high on the lists. For India, contenders included Phillips Talbot, president of the Asia Society, and Robert Goheen, former president of Princeton; for Japan, Marshall Green, one of State's foremost Asian experts and a former Ambassador to Indonesia and Australia, and Arthur Hummel, a former Ambassador to Burma and Ethiopia and lately assistant secretary for East Asia and Pacific Affairs...
...sales of stock in the Ramayana. Its action comes a bit late: Sutowo, 62, seems to have no need of further capital. Although he was fired by Pertamina last year after it ran up debts and losses of perhaps $10 billion, he remains one of the richest men in Indonesia. His restaurant partners have not been as lucky. They still own stock in the Ramayana, but the shares have never paid dividends-and oilmen get no discounts on their rijsttafel...