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Loyal Rebels. Last week, faced with threat of open (and quite probably bloody) civil war, Sukarno proclaimed a "state of siege and war," asked his dissident military commanders to confer with him in Djakarta. As the colonels began winging in, hapless Premier Sastroamidjojo drove up to the presidential palace on a humid tropical night and handed his chief, from a thin blue portfolio, his resignation. To try to put together another government, Sukarno named the little-known head of Sastroamidjojo's Nationalist Party, an ex-mayor of Djakarta named Suwirjo...
When well-meaning but bumbling Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo set up his Nationalist-Moslem coalition government a year ago, after the country's first general elections, many of his countrymen (the majority of whom are illiterate) felt that they were at last within sight of the day when some semblance of law and order could be achieved. But the forces ranged against Ali-including his own incompetence-proved too great...
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Thursday, March 14--Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo resigned today. His government was toppled by bloodless revolts in east Indonesia and Sumatra...
...much of the revenue from Sumatra's exports (oil, tin and rubber), the central government has been forced to issue an emergency decree lowering the legal ratio of gold to paper currency from 20% to 15%. For nearly three months the crumbling Cabinet of hapless Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo has clung to office largely on Sukarno's insistence...
...mounted the speaker's rostrum in Djakarta's smoke-filled House of Parliament last week, goateed Ali Sastroamidjojo looked more like a prisoner entering the dock than a Prime Minister about to make a policy statement. For once, appearances were not deceptive. Between his failure to put an end to military revolts in Sumatra and the recent withdrawal of the powerful Moslem Masjumi Party from his Cabinet, Premier Ali was indeed a man on trial...