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...what is hinted at in the DAS statement. In none of those documents is any DAS member singled out for description; the only intimation of "personality" is made in connection with the DAS team as a whole, and these passages describe how the group stands in relation to the Indonesian leadership and to other organizations working that country, such as the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank. The few "personal" remarks are made in connection with top-level Indonesian officials, and those brief passages do no more than to describe their administrative virtues or failings...
...advisors, and that the government does not act in the best interests of its people. Yet the DAS claims it "played a major role in an attempt to alter the direction the economy was going." And the new direction clearly is not in the interests of the Indonesian people. As Newsweek reports, "So far, foreign investment has focused primarily on the extraction of raw materials-such as oil, timber, and aluminum-and will do little to help the general economy. In fact, few of these investments will have much immediate impact at all" (June 23, 1969). In the long...
...Papanek says the present regime did not come to power by an anti-communist coup. This is absurd. Suharto did stage a coup in 1965, and it was directed against the Indonesian Communist Party, 500,000 of whose members and supporters were killed...
...couple of historical statements in the article, which have only a very peripheral connection with the DAS. But for the sake of historical accuracy they are worth pointing out. There are no "industrialists" in Suharto's "retinue," or anywhere else in position of power, since nearly all major Indonesian industrial firms are state-owned. Much more important is that the present regime did not come to power by an "anti-Communist coup." There was an attempted Communist coup, supported by the Commander and officers of the Air Force, the Community party newspaper, armed units of the Communist youth and women...
...CRIMSON articles raised some important questions, the SDS broadsheet is merely scurrilous. For those who may wonder what the quote from me really refers to: it was in response to a question on the success of the Ford Foundation's efforts to train some hundred Indonesian economists (asked by an interviewer who expressed great interest in technical assistance, for an article that would "probably" appear in "Harpers"). I said that the project was an excellent example of technical assistance - "We couldn't have drawn up a more ideal scenario . . ." for an effective training program...