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...Business News, a Jakarta paper, editorialized: "It is proper for us to determine our oil-price policy based on our own interest." That interest swiftly became clear when the Japanese, who buy about 80% of Indonesia's exports of 1 million bbl. per day, agreed to the boost. The U.S., which imports 17% of Indonesia's output, has no choice but to pay up too-and hope that the logic of supply and demand will prevail when the other petroleum exporters review prices July...
...Correction: the picture is captioned "Indonesia's Sungai Gerong Refinery on the River Musi at Jakarta" [Feb. 25]. Anyone who has lived there knows that Sungai Gerong is on the Musi River near Palembang, on the island of Sumatra. Jakarta, on the island of Java, is far away...
...favoring "new national leadership," Sumitro immediately denied that he had ever thought of calling for Suharto's replacement. But to political observers it looked like a slip 'twixt cup and coup. After last month's student riots during Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka's visit to Jakarta, Sumitro cracked heads with such vengeance (800 arrested and nine publications closed) that he seemed to be attempting to embarrass Suharto by exaggerating the extent of the opposition...
...start only a few short blocks away. Roughly 35% of the country's work force of 39 million is unemployed, and every year the number increases by 1,400,000. In the capital, the government has invoked measures to deal with poverty. Four years ago officials declared that Jakarta was "a closed city to all future jobless settlers." Ever since, trainloads of beggars and unemployed city dwellers have been expelled and sent back to the provinces from which they came...
...recent rioting in Jakarta was not as serious as the student demonstrations earlier this year in Thailand and South Korea. But it showed that a student protest could explode within one hour into a riot of 100,000 people. That fact was not lost on Suharto's government. The army's own rebellion against Sukarno in 1965 was also preceded by widespread student rioting in the streets of Jakarta...