Word: indonesians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the boldface incidents have appeared in print before or were generally known: the agency's loan of B-26 bombers and CIA pilots for the uprising against Indonesian President Sukarno in the late 1950s, the drifting of balloons laden with propaganda over mainland China during the Cultural Revolution, the training of the Dalai Lama's mountaineer troops when they were driven out of Tibet in 1959 by the Chinese Communists. But often the book adds fresh detail. For example, in one of their periodic raids on their homeland, the hardy Tibetans helped resolve a debate that...
...crowd-pleasing response to student protests that his aides were corrupt. But the villains of Suharto's wayang are not mere puppets. Each of the four wily generals is potentially a powerful political figure. They may now try to write a different scenario for the next Indonesian puppet show...
Appearing before the Indonesian Journalists' Association, General Suharto denied press reports linking his wife Ibu Tien (whom some foreign papers have unkindly dubbed "Ibu Ten Percent") to the ownership of four companies. One of those firms, the largest Toyota dealership in Jakarta, had been gutted by flames during the rioting...
Another complaint of the militant students was that Japanese businessmen were exploiting the country and working in league with Indonesia's Chinese community-to the detriment of the Indonesian masses. To meet that problem, the government decreed that in the future, any foreigner who wishes to do business in the country must go into partnership with a pribumi, an indigenous Indonesian-not a local Chinese. At least 51 % of the shares in the venture must be owned by an Indonesian...
...past year. The oilfields are owned by the state oil company, Pertamina, which estimates that it will have a daily output of 2 million bbl. by 1975. The problem is that the nation's new-found oil riches have contributed to the conspicuous consumption of the Indonesian rich (who make up only 3% of the population) but have hardly touched the lives of the peasant majority...