Word: indonesians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indonesia; in none is the notion of simple courtroom justice so little understood. Indonesia's bitterness and its slap-happy courtroom practices have reached fever pitch in the year-long trial of Leon Nicolaas Jungschlaeger, a 52-year-old Dutch citizen accused of conspiring to overthrow the Indonesian government. The Jungschlaeger case has become a cause celebre throughout Indonesia and The Netherlands...
Jungschlaeger, a onetime ship's captain, was head of the Dutch Military Intelligence in Indonesia after World War II. He won the lasting hatred of Indonesians by helping to suppress the Indonesia revolt against the Dutch (1947-49), was accused of using inhuman interrogation methods, e.g., putting a boring tick on the navel of a prisoner and waiting for the man to break. When he decided to return to the new Indonesian republic as a Dutch shipping firm executive, his friends warned him against...
...Times of Indonesia had declared only a few weeks earlier: "That man should be kept out of here, by force if necessary") Dulles' car was heckled by youths who cried, "Down with SEATO!" But when he left, after inviting Prime Minister Achmed Soekarno to visit the U.S., most Indonesian circles -even the Times-seemed to feel that his visit was eminently successful...
Last week the Indonesian government took up Fatmawati's formal request for a divorce. She picked up her bags and her five children and left Freedom Palace. With a what-did-I-tell-you click of the tongue, the clubwomen promptly petitioned for a new law that would require Presidents to get parliamentary permission before marrying in office. That, they thought, might at least deter President Soekarno from taking his full limit of wives, which is four...
Soekarno met Hartini in 1953 during a ceremonial visit to Solo, in Central Java. Long before, according to the outraged ladies, Hartini had been only intermittently attentive to her husband and five children. In the months that followed, Hartini was rarely at home, and Indonesian society clattered with talk of the President's clandestine romance. A year ago, a leading women's organization circulated a letter to women's clubs charging that Soekarno had married his girl. Only then did Soekarno admit that he had taken Hartini as a second wife in June 1954, and claimed that...