Word: indonesians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mobilize world opinion against Indonesia. The rest of the world was not exactly rushing to the rescue, but, confronted with continuing violence, the Malaysian government decreed a Federation-wide state of emergency, and two battalions of Malaya-based New Zealand and British Gurkha troops joined the hunt for the Indonesian guerrillas still on the loose in Malaya. To underline its determination, British airlifted an antiaircraft regiment, detached from its NATO Army of the Rhine, to Singapore, diverted a naval squadron to Malaysia from the Mediterranean. From London came word that Britain had decided to retaliate if Indonesia strikes the Malay...
...technical school on the Indonesian island of Batam, just ten miles across the straits from Singapore, doesn't have a sports schedule, but its students still play lots of games away. Housed in a cluster of tin-roofed, concrete-block buildings, the institution is a school for sabotage founded by Indonesian President Sukarno as part of his "confrontation" with the Malaysian Federation. At Batam Tech, students get a month's intensive training in such subjects as judo and jellied explosives; on graduation day they receive, instead of a sheepskin, a time bomb or a grenade or a burp...
...weeks ago, a band of Batam's most promising alumni embarked on their school's boldest venture to date. With fellow "volunteers" from the Indonesian island of Sumatra, they formed a guerrilla force that bore down on the Malay Peninsula in a flotilla of 30-ft. outboard motorboats, debarked at three points along the swampy coast only 35 miles north of Singapore. The raid was an Indonesian attempt to open a second front on the Malayan mainland itself in Sukarno's undeclared war, which so far has been chiefly confined to the Indonesian-Malaysian border in Borneo...
INDONESIA. The dinner menu is a table d'hote Indonesian feast (Kambing Masak Bugis, Ajam Panggang) served by candle light while Balinese and Sumatran dancers perform to the twangs and gongs of the gamelan orchestra...
...just what everyone wanted to hear, for Sukarno had hardly returned from the recent Malaysia peace talks in Tokyo when he loosed his bandits again in the rain-drenched jungles of northern Borneo. One band of Indonesians ambushed a British patrol, killing five Gurkhas and wounding six others. Hitting back, Malaysian defenders killed at least seven Indonesian marauders in isolated clashes. There seemed no end to the dreary warfare...