Word: suharto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Provisional Peoples Consultative Congress convene by June 1. The students want Congress to strip Sukarno of his President-for-life title, call new elections, and provide for a return to parliamentary rule. After several stormy days in the streets, one group of students called on the Sultan of Jogjakarta, Suharto's economics chief, and learned that Congress would likely convene in July, well before Sukarno's customary Independence Day policy speech...
Playing It Cool. Sukarno, in fact, was being overruled on all sides. Day by day, Indonesia's tough little Army General Suharto was picking up the threads of government and weaving them into a noose that could eventually drag Sukarno into retirement or exile-once Suharto consolidates his strength...
...weeks, Indonesians have been looking forward to the meeting of the Provisional People's Consultative Congress as a dramatic test of strength between President Sukarno and the country's new ruling triumvirate headed by Army General Suharto. Students threatened to put six guards on each of the Congress' 616 members to make sure they did the proper thing. And the proper thing would be a drastic reduction in Sukarno's status; the students demanded that he be stripped of his President-for-life title and forced to run for re-election every five years. They also...
When Sukarno realized that the Congress might indeed dilute his already weakened presidential powers, he angrily summoned Suharto and the other triumvirate members, Foreign Minister Adam Malik and the Sultan of Jogjakarta, the economics chief, to a meeting at the Djakarta home of his lovely Japanese-born wife Ratna Sara Dewi...
Drawing on the wiles that have made him one of the world's most durable rulers, Sukarno threatened to dissolve the Congress, which he had reduced to a rubber stamp anyway. Suharto refused to allow that, since the triumvirate hopes to use the Congress as the vehicle by which to re-establish democratic government in Indonesia. But in line with its policy of avoiding any frontal clashes with Sukarno, whose popularity remains high among the back-country masses, the triumvirate agreed to postpone the Congress indefinitely...