Word: indonesians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Times had in mind the election returns trickling in from provincial assembly elections in overcrowded Java, home of two-thirds of Indonesia's 80 million people. The provincial assemblies are primarily advisory and therefore not very consequential, but as a sampling of the current trend of Indonesian public opinion, the elections were intensely disquieting. In three of Indonesia's biggest cities -Bandung, Semarang and Surabaya-the Communists either won absolute majorities or gained 100% over their 1955 vote. In east and central Java the Reds seemed sure to emerge as the biggest single party, and even in west...
Gajus Siagian, General Manager of the Indonesian National Press and Publicity Service and a university lecturer, explained his country's foreign policy of non-alignment...
...central Java last week, several million illiterate voters punched a nail through a printed symbol representing one of 69 political parties. At day's end one symbol had the winning number of nail holes. The symbol: the hammer and sickle of the Indonesian Communist Party. The Communists had won an overwhelming victory in four key areas of Indonesia's most populous island...
Guided Democrat. At home, the quarreling and corruption of Indonesian politics irritated him. The yes men who surrounded him in his nation's first days turned to no men once they were elected to the newly formed Parliament and owed their power to him no longer, but to the electorate. Sukarno disowned even the Nationalist Party which originally was his creation. Only one group stayed slavishly loyal to him, no matter what he said-the Communist Party, which also escaped the brunt of his corruption charges for the reason that it has never been in the Cabinet. When Sukarno...
...bloodless because the local commanders want to remain loyal to the central government, if only the government would prove worth its loyalty. In Djakarta last week, distressed by Communist gains and Sukarno's methods, sat Premier Djuanda Karta-widjaja, an able administrator who has been in virtually every Indonesian Cabinet since 1949. In his first interview with a foreign correspondent since taking office, Djuanda made it quietly clear last week to TIME Correspondent James Bell that he does not recognize the legality of Sukarno's Communist-infested super-council. Said Djuanda: "You must remember that the Constituent Assembly...