Word: indonesians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were few questions asked and many speeches made. Lines of argument were rarely followed up. The participants sat while one would-be lecturer after another stood, carved out rounded arguments, presented them with self-conscious eloquence, and then sat down with satisfaction. At one point, R. M. Soedjatmoko, the Indonesian Ambassador to the United States and one of the most provocative of the conference members, asked the American participants to please define precisely what the liberal institutions of America are, and precisely what their crisis entails. That was well into the second day of discussion, and it struck everyone...
...five members find themselves involved in bitter nationalistic disputes. Malaysia and the Philippines are squabbling over Sabah, a small state in Borneo that now belongs to Malaysia but is claimed by the Philippines. Indonesia and Singapore are at odds over the Singapore government's execution of two Indonesian saboteurs three weeks ago. Only Thailand is still friends with all its ASEAN partners...
...fallacy and fiction." Now, diplomatic contacts are minimal. Largely overlooked in the imbroglio are the 600,000 Sabahans themselves, who, including the Moslem minority which has considerable cultural and economic influence in Sabah, would clearly prefer to stay in Malaysia. >Singapore v. Indonesia: In March 1965, a band of Indonesian marines infiltrated Singapore, then still a part of the newborn nation of Malaysia, on a sabotage mission. They planted a 25-lb. explosive charge in an office building, and the blast left three dead and 30 injured. Two of the marines were captured, tried for murder and sentenced to death...
Rebuilding the Party. The Communists had been active in South Blitar since mid-1966. They had evolved a program to revive their party, begin armed struggle, and establish a revolutionary united front, presumably with the left wing of the Indonesian Nationalist Party, which is particularly strong in East Java. Encouraged by Peking propaganda calling for armed uprising, they set up schools for guerrilla training, and political indoctrination and established cells in such East Java cities as Surabaja and Malang. By early 1968, they controlled two regional guerrilla groups and 17 village detachments and began to look for bigger action...
...Communists rise up so prematurely-long before they were ready for a real test of armed strength with the government? Puzzled Djakarta officials put it down to the Indonesian Communists' notoriously bad sense of timing and planning. After all, an ill-prepared Communist uprising flopped in 1948, and the 1965 coup attempt was a model of mismanaged conspiracy...