Word: indonesianness
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...dust settle before the heads roll," counsels a Javanese proverb. For several days following the disastrous rioting in the streets of Jakarta that accompanied the visit of Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka (TIME, Jan. 28), the Indonesian government of General Suharto reacted hardly at all. Then, barely a week after the disturbances that had left eleven people dead, 807 automobiles gutted and 144 buildings damaged, the government retaliated. It shut down nine newspapers and arrested 775 persons, including 21 of Jakarta's most prominent intellectuals. The government's aim, declared one of the President's personal assistants, General...
Appearing before the Indonesian Journalists' Association, General Suharto denied press reports linking his wife Ibu Tien (whom some foreign papers have unkindly dubbed "Ibu Ten Percent") to the ownership of four companies. One of those firms, the largest Toyota dealership in Jakarta, had been gutted by flames during the rioting...
Another complaint of the militant students was that Japanese businessmen were exploiting the country and working in league with Indonesia's Chinese community-to the detriment of the Indonesian masses. To meet that problem, the government decreed that in the future, any foreigner who wishes to do business in the country must go into partnership with a pribumi, an indigenous Indonesian-not a local Chinese. At least 51 % of the shares in the venture must be owned by an Indonesian...
...past year. The oilfields are owned by the state oil company, Pertamina, which estimates that it will have a daily output of 2 million bbl. by 1975. The problem is that the nation's new-found oil riches have contributed to the conspicuous consumption of the Indonesian rich (who make up only 3% of the population) but have hardly touched the lives of the peasant majority...
...flared through the city, Suharto gave a state dinner for Tanaka in the heavily guarded presidential palace. Declared the host: "This meeting and Your Excellency's presence within our midst... may facilitate Your Excellency's wish to become intimate with the current problems and issues of the Indonesian people, their feelings, their hopes." Tanaka answered by expressing his thanks for having been granted the opportunity to "witness at first hand [how] the great people of Indonesia have built a society of perfect harmony...