Word: java
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Java-Centric." First of all. President Sukarno was eager for the government to take in the Communists, who held 39 seats in Parliament. Second, local politicians and military commanders all over the Indonesian string of 3,000 islands accused the government of being "Java-centric." Java, site of the capital city of Djakarta, has two-thirds of the country's population. But though Java accounts for only 17% of Indonesia's exports, it gobbles up a disproportionate slice (73%) of its imports. Sumatra, on the other hand, contributes 72% of Indonesia's exports in return...
...President Sukarno's white-pillared presidential palace at Djakarta, Java came report after report of revolt and separatist movements, from the northern tip of Sumatra on the Indian Ocean to Borneo, the Celebes and Amboina, some 3,000 miles away in the Banda Sea. There was a new outbreak in South Sumatra. It is largely the reputation of Sukarno that holds the sprawling Republic of Indonesia together, but what threatened to sever it last week was a recent decision by Sukarno himself: to include Indonesia's Communists in his government...
...immense outpouring of art which began more than 5,000 years ago in the fertile Indus Valley has flooded over to enrich the lives of millions in India, Central Asia, China, Java and Cambodia. But because the main stream of Indian art flowed away from the sources that were to nourish Western art, Indian sculpture has remained something strange and remote to Western sensibilities...
East Indonesia's 12 million inhabitants have long been hostile to the "Java-centric" government in Djakarta. A sprawling collection of islands which includes Celebes, the Moluccas and fabled Bali, East Indonesia has spawned half a dozen revolutionary movements-among them the fanatically Moslem Darul Islam and the so-called "Republic of the South Moluccas." At the head of last week's bloodless coup, however, was no sworn foe of the government but one of President Sukarno's favorites-handsome, 35-year-old Lieut. Colonel Ventje Sumual. A onetime sergeant in the Dutch army, and a Christian...
...Indonesian army spokesmen suggested that the spark which set off the revolt was Sukarno's plan to bring the Communists into a reorganized Indonesian government (TIME, March 4). Unless Sukarno backs down, he might one day find that he is President of little more than the island of Java...