Word: sastroamidjojo
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...young Indonesian Republic begins its sixth year of independence, and the confident fervor is gone. The economy is sick with inflation. Unrest is growing among the 90% Moslem population because of 1) the weakness of the central government, and 2) the way the Communists are infiltrating Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo's government with the open encouragement of the Premier and the men around...
...white-supremacy government of South Africa was not even discussed. ("We can't go there, so why the hell should we invite them here," explained Ceylon's Sir John Kotelawala.) North and South Viet Nam were invited; South and North Korea were not. Indonesia's Ali Sastroamidjojo proposed Japan, a surprising suggestion from a nation that still remembers the Japanese conquest of the East Indies. But Japan's invitation was designed to balance off another...
...appeared at any party convention. He has always told Indonesians wherever he went: "Brothers, I am above such things as party politics. I am your constitutional President. I am of you and with you." Now he is publicly supporting the leftist, trouble-loaded government of his friend, Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo...
...five years of self-government, the Republic of Indonesia, a country rich in oil, rubber and tin, has achieved a degree of economic muddle unmatched in the democratic world. The question before the Indonesian Parliament last week, on a vote of confidence in Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo's administration, was whether continuing muddle would drive Indonesia out of the democratic world into the arms of the Communists...
...Communist himself, Prime Minister Sastroamidjojo is relying more and more on Communist support. In recent months he has jailed Chinese Nationalists, curbed anti-Communist Chinese newspapers, and permitted the Communist Party to blazon Indonesia with hammer and sickle posters. Several Cabinet members, one the Minister of Defense, are well-known fellow travelers. Last week the opposition brought Sastroamidjojo to a long-delayed vote of confidence. He won by a majority of 23 votes, and without the aid of 19 Communist votes in the Assembly would have squeaked through with but a majority of four. Said Opposition Leader Jusuf Wibisono...