Word: priok
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Djakarta's moldering port of Tandjong Priok, sweltering Dutch housewives and pathetic clusters of elderly women waited solemnly while customs and immigration officials examined their documents and belongings. The Indonesian officials, long famed as among the most uncooperative and most sullen in the world, were being scrupulously kind and considerate. Javanese maids in batik sarongs wept as they said goodbye to moppets they had reared from infancy. On the Dutch liner Willem Ruys, evacuees were berthed in the ship's lounge and laundry rooms...
Last Flight. At Djakarta's sprawling port of Tandjong Priok, lean little Indonesian commandos swirled up in dusty U.S. trucks and mounted guard over Dutch ships and port facilities. In the capital itself, workers of the Communist-dominated SOBSI (an all-Indonesia association of trade unions) ejected Dutch officials from the gleaming white colonial buildings that house the Royal Packet Service Co. (K.P.M.) and the Netherlands Handelsbank...
...economy is being slowly strangled by in ept government policies. While badly needing and openly crying for foreign investment, the government is slowly forcing out firms already in business. Most planters (tea, rubber) say they are not even bothering to replant. General Motors closed its assembly plant at Tandjong Priok a few weeks ago after 27 years of operation. Philco Radio and Britain's vast Imperial Chemical Industries are expected to follow quite soon. At Tandjong Priok, the capital's seaport, costly prefabricated school buildings are rusting on wharves because someone has forgotten them; at Bandung, in West...
What finally woke up the trusting Indonesians was a raid in force one night early this month on police stations in Tanjon Priok, Jakarta's vital port area. It was carried out by 100 terrorists, carrying red flags and wearing hammer & sickle armbands incongruously decorated with the Picasso "dove of peace." They were after arms. After an all-night fight, they were finally beaten back...