Word: indonesian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Proliferating Portrait. By showing a firmer hand, Suharto is gradually becoming strong enough to cope with problems as numerous as Indonesia's 3,000 islands. Corruption remains a blot on Indonesian life, but Suharto is considering a housecleaning to try to root it out. Indonesia's politicians are often restive, but he has managed to keep them in line while also blocking any resurgence of the outlawed Communist party. Though he has broken with Peking, Suharto adheres to a neutralist, if slightly pro-Western, foreign policy, showing a sympathetic understanding of American objectives in Viet Nam while still...
From Malaysia, Humphrey flew on to Djakarta; he was the first top-ranking American to visit the Indonesian capital since "President for Life" Sukarno was eased from power 16 months ago. Fearful that American visibility would only aid the Reds in their comeback attempts, the U.S. has maintained a "low profile" position in Indonesia since the anti-Communist resurgence against Sukarno began in October...
However, Humphrey was greeted by thousands of Indonesians waving tiny paper American flags-a far cry from the raging mobs that burned and looted the U.S. and British embassies in years past. At a dinner in Humphrey's honor. Acting President Suharto frankly appealed for U.S. economic assistance and warned that "if the economy cannot be improved in a relatively short time" the Indonesian Communist Party might well score a comeback. Clearly, the Indonesian economy would be the key topic during the Vice President's four-day stay-as it was at a conference of world businessmen...
Last week in Geneva, Indonesian Foreign Minister Adam Malik and Economics Minister Sultan Hamengku Buwono faced an extraordinary audience of businessmen.* In a three-day meeting sponsored by Time Inc., top executives of European, Japanese, Australian, Cana dian and U.S. companies gathered to hear just how vital foreign investments can be to the future of Indonesia...
...economic problem is complicated by Indonesian antagonism toward the country's 3,000,000 Chinese, who control some 70% of the country's businesses. After the Peking-inspired attempt to grab Indonesia by coup, the Indonesian public turned on the Chinese in their midst in a bitter pogrom, thus further upsetting the country's frail economy. Outside big cities and district capitals, Chinese may no longer own businesses. Chinese schools have been closed, Chinese organizations ordered disbanded and Chinese papers banned except for two run by the government. "There are too many of them," says Foreign Minister...