Word: indonesians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indonesian Crisis...
...government but one of President Sukarno's favorites-handsome, 35-year-old Lieut. Colonel Ventje Sumual. A onetime sergeant in the Dutch army, and a Christian, who won Sukarno's affections while serving as his bodyguard. Colonel Sumual had the backing of 51 East Indonesian political and military leaders...
Ostensibly, Sumual's demands were much the same as those of the Sumatra rebels: autonomy within the Indonesian Republic, plus local control of the foreign exchange earned by East Indonesia's exports. But in Djakarta, Indonesian army spokesmen suggested that the spark which set off the revolt was Sukarno's plan to bring the Communists into a reorganized Indonesian government (TIME, March 4). Unless Sukarno backs down, he might one day find that he is President of little more than the island of Java...
...Djakarta, movie theaters were shut down and sirens screamed to herald the event. From one end of Indonesia to the other public-address systems were at the ready, and on Indonesian ships at sea crew members gathered around the radio. At long last President Sukarno was ready to announce his plan for converting Indonesia into a "guided democracy...
...revolt against the government. Sumatrans complain that the national government, sitting in the Java capital of Djakarta, is too Java-centered.* Last week in North Sumatra, three of four government regiments were reportedly rallying to the support of Rebel Leader Colonel Maludin Simbolon, once the rising star of the Indonesian army, who is in hiding in the hills of Tapanuli with some 200 followers...