Word: indonesianness
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Shrill threats to "liberate West Irian" have long been President Sukarno's favorite device to rouse Indonesian patriotic passions and divert attention from the myriad shortcomings of his floundering economy at home. Indonesia's claim to Netherlands New Guinea is based on the fact that the Dutch administered it as part of The Netherlands East Indies along with the other islands that now make up independent Indonesia...
Pigs & Women. But the fact is that Netherlands New Guinea's Papuans want to be no part of Indonesia. They are Melanesians, with no racial kinship to the Indonesians. Their skins are darker, their languages totally different. Furthermore, the Papuans have no desire to trade Dutch colonialism for Indonesian colonialism, want to join together instead with Australian New Guinea and the Solomon Islands in a union to be called the United States of Melanesia...
Last October the government summarily canceled the licenses of all 65 Indonesian papers, reissued only 55; the missing ten were papers whose performance as advocates of the administration did not meet Sukarno's exacting standards. South Viet Nam arrests not only offending journalists but pressmen, compositors and Linotypists as well-together with their families...
...Indonesian Economic Problems...
...former chief of the Indonesian Directorate of Industry, Raden Sanoesi, will be the principal delegate from the Southeast Asian region. A member of many trade and industry missions throughout the world, Sanoesi has written articles on development planning and financing, and is at present counsellor to the Development Ministry of his country...