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...picture. With about 27 million of an estimated 30 million votes counted at week's end, the totals-all highly unofficial-still put the Nationalists on top with 8,001,750 votes. But the Communists were in fourth place, while the strictly anti-Communist Moslem parties, the Masjumi and the Moslem Teachers, had enough between them to suggest a slight majority for Indonesia's anti-Communist parties. Sastroamidjojo still seemed likely to win the premiership, but the anti-Communist bloc had a good chance of playing a role in his Cabinet and his policies...
...Nationalists were well ahead of the anti-Communist Masjumi (Moslem) Party, which had been favored to win, and the Communists were pressing the Masjumi for second place...
Brother, Brother. To set up the elections, officials of the caretaker Masjumi (Moslem) Party government of Burhanuddin Harahap used a fleet of 100 yachts and fishing boats, air-force planes, army trucks, oxcarts and 3,500 bicycles to transport ballots. They distributed millions of leaflets, showing the different par ty symbols and explaining to the elector ate the simple mechanics of voting -punching a hole through the symbol of one's choice. Electoral officers plodded through the jungles to advertise the election with cartoon movies and singing pup pet shows. Sample song: "Let's all go there, brother...
Bark Instead of Bite. In last week's campaign windup at a Communist strong hold near Djakarta, a pretty 24-year-old girl intensely pleaded the Masjumi line: "The Communists stabbed us in the back . . . The welfare of our people depends on Allah, not on Malenkov or Mao Tse-tung." A crowd of 2,000 barefooted workers and women listened impassively cheered lustily. But a larger crowd a mile away cheered, too, when a Communist speaker harangued against "Dutch imperialism," and accused the Masjumi of selling out Indonesia to the U.S. Similarly...
Observers gave the anti-Communist Masjumi Party the best chance for a plurality (Indonesia is 95% Moslem) followed by the Communists. Socialists and Nationalists. But nobody felt very sure. "I don't understand all this," remarked a young lady in a tiny Javanese village. "How can a ratu (official) be chosen by us? They are sent from heaven...