Word: palembang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mountains, government troops from the oil center of Pakanbaru had pushed the rebels back within 70 miles of Bukittinggi. To the south, the government's hard-working paratroopers were inching through the jungle to cut the last rebel artery to the outside-the potholed road that leads to Palembang in South Sumatra...
...they are experiencing the most difficulty. Natsir lingers in Padang still uncommitted, but still the probable candidate for President, if the rebels are forced to disavow Sukarno. A key man is Colonel Barlian, commander of South Sumatra. His area includes the rich Stanvac and Shell oilfields and refineries at Palembang, which supply most of Djakarta's gasoline. Padang's Colonel Husein is his closest friend, and he is with the rebels in spirit but, so far, hesitates to disown Djakarta. Possible reasons: his region is heavily settled by migrant Javanese who in recent municipal elections gave one-third...
...land where the centuries do not follow each other but run side by side. In the oil city of Palembang the streets throb with Cadillacs and motor scooters, while scarcely 50 miles away aboriginal Kubus still live in trees. There are modern textile factories on Java but. close by, a tiger may feast on a wild pig or water buffalo. Elephants trumpet in the rain forest; single-horned rhinos move like tanks through the deltaic swamps; the 10-ft. Komodo lizard looks out from thick underbrush like a dragon from the pages of Arthurian romances...
...effort to halt the barter trade, the rebels quickly got them released by threatening to cut off Djakarta's oil supplies from Sumatra's refineries. Simbolon can also point to the fact that its barter taxes and profits have been either deposited in Padang and Palembang, pending a settlement with Djakarta, or used for public improvements, like roads, hospitals and schools...
Though Indonesian Premier Djuanda threatened "drastic action" against unauthorized seizures of Dutch property, SOBSI-led workers seized a Dutch club in Palembang, largest city of south Sumatra, two banks in Semarang in central Java, tea, coffee, rubber and palm-oil plantations in northern Sumatra and west Java...