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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sukarno's: Mohammed Hatta. Hatta, one of the "founding fathers" of Indonesia along with Sukarno, resigned last December as Vice President, in protest at Sukarno's insistence on Communist participation in his "guided democracy," which has helped the Communists win a string of electoral victories in Java...
...Times had in mind the election returns trickling in from provincial assembly elections in overcrowded Java, home of two-thirds of Indonesia's 80 million people. The provincial assemblies are primarily advisory and therefore not very consequential, but as a sampling of the current trend of Indonesian public opinion, the elections were intensely disquieting. In three of Indonesia's biggest cities -Bandung, Semarang and Surabaya-the Communists either won absolute majorities or gained 100% over their 1955 vote. In east and central Java the Reds seemed sure to emerge as the biggest single party, and even in west...
...central Java last week, several million illiterate voters punched a nail through a printed symbol representing one of 69 political parties. At day's end one symbol had the winning number of nail holes. The symbol: the hammer and sickle of the Indonesian Communist Party. The Communists had won an overwhelming victory in four key areas of Indonesia's most populous island...
...learning, he was off on a baby-kissing tour of South Borneo, cracking jokes that had audiences slapping their hips with glee, and making pleas for national unity-the kind of unity, he said, he had found in Red China. After hearing the results of the Communist victory in Java, he thought it prudent to declare: "I am no Communist. I cannot become a Communist...
...Season. In Madiun, Java, Ra-den Sukotjo, who quit teaching school six years ago, got official notice from Indonesia's Ministry of Education that he had won a salary increase...