Word: sartono
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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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...
...York, investment bankers waited nervously for each new report from Djakarta. Then at midweek Premier Djuanda announced that Sukarno was tired and exhausted from overwork, would leave shortly for rest and recuperation in a friendly country, presumably India or Egypt. In Sukarno's absence, Parliament Speaker Sartono would serve as Acting President, working in cooperation with Premier Djuanda and Major General Abdul Haris Nasution, chief of staff of the Indonesian army. There was talk that former Vice President Mohammed Hatta, who resigned last year in protest against Sukarno's attempt to set up a "guided democracy...
Premier Djuanda, a Socialist non-party man, asked Parliament to swear in Speaker Sartono, a 56-year-old moderate Nationalist, as acting president, but a government spokesman indicated the Premier and General Nasutin actually will run things...