Word: maludin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Late? Djuanda's compromise might have come too late. In Padang, Roem found some civilian leaders receptive. "But," Masjumi Party Chairman Mohammed Natsir told him, "it is not for us to decide." Plainly, Colonel Maludin Simbolon and his fellow colonels have grown increasingly impatient with Sukarno's attempts to solve the crisis by postponement, and the colonels' power is decisive in Padang's councils. For they control most of oil-and rubber-rich Sumatra (which they propose to make the base of their counter-government if Sukarno cannot be brought to terms), can also claim scattered...
...Indonesia") still ringing in his gratified ears, anti-Communist politicians and dissident army commanders of the outlying provinces met to muster their forces and concert their plans at the Central Sumatran capital of Padang. The conferences began some three weeks ago in deepest secrecy. Summoned by shrewd, stocky Colonel Maludin Simbolon, the dissident commanders flew in from the Celebes and South Sumatra. The officers are mostly young colonels, and all are anti-Communists who run their areas with cool efficiency and a minimum of corruption. Soon the colonels were joined, uninvited, by some of Indonesia's top anti-Communist...
...week wore on, the jungle was heard from. In Sumatra, headquarters of the revolutionary Banteng Council, Colonels Maludin Simbolon and Ahmad Husein told Christian Science Monitor Correspondent Gordon Walker flatly that they would have no part of Sukarno's "guided democracy" or of his Emergency Cabinet. When told they were about to be visited by the chief of the Emergency Cabinet, Colonel Husein answered: "We'll listen politely, but continue on our chosen path." Both Husein and Simbolon said that they felt Sukarno was on the decline, indicated quite openly that they would prefer to see him replaced...
...weeks since the revolts began, Ali's government has promoted more than 100 army officers, including many in rebellious Sumatra. Last week, in yet another conciliatory gesture, the Premier dispatched Army Chief of Staff Nasution to Sumatra. Nasution's prime task: to coax Colonel Maludin Simbolon, most popular of the Sumatra rebels, out of his jungle hideout and "reconcile" him to the government...
...Indonesia's export revenue) was in open revolt against the government. Sumatrans complain that the national government, sitting in the Java capital of Djakarta, is too Java-centered.* Last week in North Sumatra, three of four government regiments were reportedly rallying to the support of Rebel Leader Colonel Maludin Simbolon, once the rising star of the Indonesian army, who is in hiding in the hills of Tapanuli with some 200 followers...
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