Word: indonesianness
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...Sukarno: Indonesian socialism is not a severe socialism. It aims at a good life for all, with no exploitation...
...Indonesia, the East Germans finished a sugar mill two years behind schedule only to find that it was a beet-sugar mill and the rollers were not heavy enough to crush Indonesian cane sugar...
Eventually, a middle-aged American engineer named Greg Nilson, sightseeing in Hong Kong with his wife, is suckered into smuggling the weapons to anti-Communist rebels in Indonesia. The amateur gunrunner winds up in an Indonesian prison that is not at all sanitary, and when rebels begin to ventilate the building with antitank guns, Nilson is hardly consoled by the thought that the affair will make dandy cocktail conversation back in Wilmington-if he ever gets back...
This was infuriating to Sukarno, since the Indonesian Communist Party is the nation's largest, and he has for years teetered between a Red takeover and a coup d'état by the anti-Communist army. Besides, it was no way for a guest to act. In the heavily pro-Red port city of Surabaya, Sukarno struck back. While Khrushchev sat bulkily silent on the platform. Sukarno told a crowd of 40,000 that Indonesia must maintain "its own personality,'' and promised eventual success for his own vague "guided democracy," or, as he put it: "Socialism...
...official Communist Chinese news agency cranked out reams about the harsh treatment of overseas Chinese in the land Khrushchev was visiting. A boatload of returned compatriots docked last week in Canton, and Communist newspapers played up stories that "many suffered destruction or plunder of their property" after the Indonesian government banned them last January from doing business in rural areas. "In the name of inspection," the Reds charged darkly, "Indonesian officials insulted Chinese girl students." One Communist newspaper imparted a whiff of gunpowder by demanding "compensation" for the 2,500,000 dispossessed Chinese...