Word: sartono
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...once, diplomacy did a new quickstep in Djakarta. As if anxious not to get too tied to the Communists or too detached from the U.S., Premier Djuanda honored U.S. Ambassador Howard P. Jones with a dinner at his official residence; Speaker of Parliament Sartono expressed his gratitude for U.S. economic and technical aid, and Sukarno's chief of staff, Major General Nasution, curtly put a stop to all anti-American parades and demonstrations, ordered everyone, in and out of government, to "respect the sound mutual relationships between all countries and peoples...
...ignored an earlier demand from the colonels made last September, asking for an anti-Communist government of democracy, constitutionality, law and order. After two weeks of discussion, the conferees decided on their tactics. They would form a counter-government headed by Sjafruddin. and send an ultimatum to Acting President Sartono, demanding that he dismiss the "unconstitutional" government of Premier Djuanda and ask former Vice President Mohammed Hatta to form a national government of antiCommunists...
...Sartono rejected the ultimatum, the emergency government would become a permanent counter-government which would seek recognition from other powers as the legitimate government of all Indonesia, on the ground that the Djuanda government is actually challenged almost everywhere in Indonesia except in Java, and that it has never been invested by Parliament. Said one Padang official: "We fought for a country based on Pantja Sila [the Five Principles of belief in God, nationalism, humanitarianism, social justice and democracy]. Did we do this just to turn the country over to Communists as they are doing in Djakarta...
Indonesia last week had two Presidents. One was Parliament Speaker Sartono, who was sworn in as Acting President before a heavily guarded convocation of Djakarta dignitaries, and the other was President Sukarno himself, who kept saying he was going off to India for a rest cure, though he seemed more interested in hanging around to see how the Acting President would make...
Acting President Sartono had his work cut out for him. In the three weeks since Sukarno launched his campaign to seize Dutch-owned commercial enterprises and expel their owners, Indonesia's ever-shaky economy had deteriorated sharply. In the Djakarta port area alone, some 30,000 workers were idle. Imports were off by 80%. The price of rice had doubled. Already the government is dipping into its "iron reserve" of rice stores, nominally designated for use only in the event of war or national emergency. Djakarta printing presses were at work turning out 400,000 rice ration cards...