Word: prawiranegara
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...establish themselves in Indonesia. They tried it with two major military campaigns, which only proved that they could seize any city they wanted but they could not control the countryside. At one time (1948) Dutch paratroops captured President Sukarno and every member of his Cabinet except Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, who was in Sumatra and continued the fight. In 1949, worn down by Indonesian resistance and world opinion, the Dutch gave up. All of their old island possessions except West New Guinea became the Republic of Indonesia. Sukarno and his fellow revolutionaries had won independence...
...Padang, at the foot of Sumatra's towering Barisan Mountains, 40,000 troops and civilians gathered on a balmy tropical night last week to hear Lieut. Colonel Ahmad Husein proclaim a "revolutionary government with full sovereignty over all Indonesia." Designated Premier of the new state was Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, ex-Governor of the Bank of Indonesia and a bitter personal enemy of President Sukarno. Cried Sjafruddin: "It is with deep sorrow and sadness that we are compelled to raise the banner of challenge against our own head of state. We have talked and talked. Now we must...
...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 politicians. Among them: Masjumi Party Chairman Mohammed Natsir; Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, governor of the Bank of Indonesia; ex-Premier Burhanuddin Harahap; onetime Finance Minister Sumitro Djojohadikusumo...
This very same form of legalized larceny was perpetrated in Greece in April 1922. I was an accountant in Athens at the time. It may interest Indonesian Finance Minister Sjafrud-din Prawiranegara to know that Greek Finance Minister Protopapadakes, who put this smart idea across, was effectively cut in half by an ingeniously simple machine gun, along with the rest of the Greek cabinet, some six months later...
...economic mumbo-jumbo is apt to baffle all but the most sophisticated spectators. But last week the government of "backward" Indonesia, whose guilder was badly inflated, devised an ingeniously simple new method that anyone could grasp, for letting the air out of their currency. Indonesian Finance Minister Sjafruddin Prawiranegara ordered Indonesians to get out their scissors and cut in half their paper money above five guilders...
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