Word: palembang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boys. In Makasar, spotted deer tethered to trees keep the grass cut short beside the boulevards; while, on the waterfront, Buginese sailmakers squat on the docks sewing large squares of canvas together. The spicy aroma of cooking fires drifts lazily in the twilight haze on the Musi River in Palembang, and the evening sun casts a warm orange glow on the great white mosque of Banda Atjeh. In Padang, the bustling bazaars are piled high with a rainbow of fruits and silks...
That seems to be the easygoing appraisal of the U.S. Export-Import Bank in granting loans totaling $47.5 million to Indonesia last week for 1) a plant to use the natural gas of Palembang's oilfields for making fertilizer for Indonesia's rice terraces, 2) an electric power plant for East Java. The loans, largest to be granted by the bank to Indonesia in ten years, were announced just five weeks before Soviet Premier Khrushchev's scheduled good-will visit to Djakarta. Flashing his brightest smile, President Sukarno assured housewives on a Djakarta street corner that...