Word: malik
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military seized the initiative in ending the costly demiwar with its neighbor. The mission to Malaysia, which had been kept secret in Djakarta, further undercut President Sukarno's already weakened position. Sukarno had apparently hoped to persuade the military to reverse the policy of Foreign Minister Adam Malik, who has been openly demanding an end to konfrontasi. But the fact that the "Crush Malaysia" commanders themselves undertook an independent peace mission seemed to demolish that hope. The military's action, in fact, buttresses Malik's position as he leaves this week for Bangkok to begin formal talks...
...bluff and bluster, Sukarno was increasingly out of date. Already overruled by Indonesia's new chiefs was the konfrontasi that Bung Karno invented. Last week Foreign Minister Adam Malik, who has the army's backing, agreed to meet in Bangkok with Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Razak. Malik's purpose: to end the foolish fight with Malaysia. Though Sukarno angrily advised Malik not to go abroad, Malik seemed set on his course. "The confrontation of the people's stomachs," he said, "is more important than any other confrontation...
When Sukarno realized that the Congress might indeed dilute his already weakened presidential powers, he angrily summoned Suharto and the other triumvirate members, Foreign Minister Adam Malik and the Sultan of Jogjakarta, the economics chief, to a meeting at the Djakarta home of his lovely Japanese-born wife Ratna Sara Dewi...
Next, Sukarno turned to Malik, who had just returned from talks with the Philippine Foreign Minister in Bangkok, where Malik had declared that he would like to end Indonesia's costly konfrontasi with Malaysia "tomorrow." "We want to make war," thundered Sukarno, "and you want to end it." "If that's the way you feel, you can fire me," replied Foreign Minister Malik coolly. Sukarno quieted down and changed the subject, for he fully realizes that, at least for the present, he can no more fire a member of the triumvirate than they can fire...
...actions are clear enough, the words coming out of Indonesia are still often contradictory, partly because Sukarno continues to boast that he is boss and partly because the triumvirate has to indulge in a certain amount of doubletalk as long as he is around. Last week Foreign Minister Malik announced that Djakarta would recognize Singapore, adding that it was "a measure to intensify konfrontasi with Malaysia"-even though it is clearly a gesture in the opposite direction. Malik says that Indonesia will rejoin the United Nations; Sukarno insists that "Indonesia will never go back until the U.N. is changed." Nonetheless...