Word: sastroamidjojo
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Sumatrans would like to bring back to power Mohammed Hatta, 54, a widely respected Sumatran, who along with President Sukarno led the fight for Indonesia's independence from the Dutch. Distressed at the weakness of Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo's government, which flirts with Communism and tolerates corruption, Hatta resigned last month as Vice President of the country...
...Cabinet of goateed Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo was all but impotent, its members amounting to little more than messenger boys for the bosses of eight bickering political parties. Grafting had become so much of a public scandal that last week Indonesia's Attorney General brought charges against Foreign Minister Roeslan Abdulgani, whom the press accused of having accepted $130,000 in bribes...
...this, hapless Premier Sastroamidjojo's Cabinet went into late night sessions, and President Soekarno broadcast a nationwide appeal to military and political leaders to stand by the government. "The medicine at this critical time of transition in Indonesia," said Soekarno hopefully, "is that everyone mind his own business...
...coalition would be necessary, and President Soekarno assigned his old friend and protege, Ali Sastroamidjojo, to form it. Soekarno likes to say that "if the people are green, the government should also be green. If the people are red, the administration should also be red." Until the army broke up his opportunistic regime last July, Sastroamidjojo had handed over nearly a third of the top government posts to Communists or Communist sympathizers. But this time Sastroamidjojo showed no disposition to repeat his mistake. Ignoring the Communists completely, he formed a Cabinet largely drawn from the Nationalists, Masjumi and Moslem Teachers...
...highly unofficial-still put the Nationalists on top with 8,001,750 votes. But the Communists were in fourth place, while the strictly anti-Communist Moslem parties, the Masjumi and the Moslem Teachers, had enough between them to suggest a slight majority for Indonesia's anti-Communist parties. Sastroamidjojo still seemed likely to win the premiership, but the anti-Communist bloc had a good chance of playing a role in his Cabinet and his policies...