Word: indonesians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...none set out with more confident fervor than Indonesia. After 350 years as a colony of the Dutch, one sudden, exuberant transformation made the islands the world's sixth most populous nation (80 million), rich in natural resources, and in national ambition. This month, the young Indonesian Republic begins its sixth year of independence, and the confident fervor is gone. The economy is sick with inflation. Unrest is growing among the 90% Moslem population because of 1) the weakness of the central government, and 2) the way the Communists are infiltrating Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo's government with...
While a herd of spotted mouse deer grazed under the banyan trees nearby, five men who speak for nearly a fourth of the people in the world gathered inside an old palace in the Indonesian resort town of Bogor last week. The Prime Ministers of India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Indonesia-the so-called Colombo Powers-came together to plan history's first political conference of the nations of Africa and Asia. Questions to be settled were: where, when, why and whom to invite...
...impatience, the five Prime Ministers engaged themselves in housekeeping details that for the most part could have been arranged by underlings. India's Jawaharlal Nehru, his mischievous foreign-policy missionary, Krishna Menon, and the rest of the Indian delegation were openly contemptuous of the inept way their inexperienced Indonesian hosts had prepared for the meeting. "We sent some people down here in advance to try and help these beggars," said one Indian, "but they haven't got a clue, not a clue!" Invitations. The five Prime Ministers briskly agreed on date and place (Indonesia in April...
...wishing to help the young country whose independence it had largely fathered, offered the Indonesian government guaranteed long-term prices for commodities. The deal, which would have helped stabilize the economy, fell through under attack from Indonesian nationalists who set up a cry of "Imperialism." The world market was high as a result of the Korean war, and with their foreign exchange the inexperienced Indonesians bought thousands of automobiles for their government officials, air-conditioned cars and diesel engines for a railroad system that was pulling only half its normal amount of freight. The world market fell and Indonesia...
...Indonesian capital of Jakarta last month, businessmen complained that the government is throttling Indonesia's foreign trade, and accused officials of taking kickbacks up to 20% on behalf of the reigning Nationalist Party. Pressure on the Premier forced him to fire his Economic Minister. This still did not satisfy the opposition, led by the powerful Masjumi (Moslem) Party (Indonesia has the world's largest Moslem population). Their misgivings go deeper...