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...slaves, concubines and booty. In modern times they have been peaceful farmers, fishermen and plantation workers. But they still reach for their weapons when aroused; and last week the Achinese were in bloody revolt against the Indonesian government at Jakarta, on the neighboring (and more populous) island of Java...
...Achinese resented the dominance of Java and of the Javanese in the central government and the government's plain lack of interest in the welfare of outlying provinces. Last summer when a new government was formed at Jakarta, under Prime Minister Ali Sastroamidjojo, the Achinese cup of wrath brimmed over. The new regime was supported by the Communists (though not Communist itself), and no member of the Masjumi (Moslem) Party, Indonesia's largest, was in the cabinet...
Secession. The angry Achinese rallied around Teuku Daud Beureuh, a former military governor of Atjeh. Beureuh was in touch with another Moslem rebel, Kartosuwirjo, who had been defying the government for three years from the wilds of West Java. In September, Beureuh seceded from Indonesia-that is, he proclaimed Atjeh a part of an autonomous Islamic state headed by Kartosuwirjo. At the same time 10,000 of his Achinese warriors, wearing homemade black uniforms and brandishing swords, cutlasses, kukris and even kitchen knives, attacked government police and military posts in eleven Atjeh towns. In most cases the rebels...
...they had never known, or gave their places on rafts to the wounded, or kept their mates awake and alive by jabbing planks in their faces. Morale of this sort held out for several days, until all the men McKie writes about had managed to get ashore on Java...
...tiny Sultanate of Brunei, adjoining Sarawak on the northwest coast of Borneo, was once a great, warlike nation. In the 16th century its navies spread terror through the Java and Malacca Seas. But Brunei, like many of its neighbors in Malaysia, fell upon hard times. Its fleets rotted away; fierce Sulu pirates came to take its strongest people captive and sell them in the slave markets. In the middle of the last century, Brunei was forced to seek protection from another island kingdom, Great Britain, whose fleets were in better shape. As recently as 25 years ago, once proud Brunei...