Word: suharto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Compared with the swaggering Sukarno, whom he replaced last year as Indonesia's top man, General Suharto is a cautious and colorless fellow-which is just what Indonesia needs. He rules Indonesia with such quiet modesty and attention to detail that his advisers have been constantly prodding him to make more speeches and exert more power. Last week Suharto showed that he can act as forcefully, if not as flamboyantly, as Sukarno. In what he mildly called "a redressing," he announced his first big Cabinet shakeup, a move that consolidated his own power and clearly reflected his confident control...
Indonesia's "serious political provocation" was extending an invitation to a Taiwan trade delegation, after having canceled trade with China last month. General Suharto's government replied by announcing that it would pull the entire Indonesian embassy staff out of Peking and send them on "vacation." Ceylon got a nasty diplomatic note because two Ceylonese M.P.s and a newspaper publisher had visited Taiwan...
...balance such troubles, Sukarno's konfrontasi, the undeclared war that poisoned Indonesia's relations with her neighbors for four years and cost Malaysia and her British allies an estimated $2 billion, was formally ended last week when General Suharto's enlightened government in Djakarta re-established diplomatic relations with Kuala Lumpur. In another tenth birthday present to Malaysia, the Filipinos signed an antismuggling pact to cut illegal trade between Sabah and Mindanao, thereby resolving an ancient territorial dispute...
...been run up the flagpole once a year since Indonesia gained its freedom in 1945? It was in a locked cabinet, and the keeper of the key was old Father Sukarno, 66, who was still mad enough about being deposed that he refused to hand it over. President Suharto even sent a delegation out to the Bung's "retirement" villa at Bogor to appeal to his patriotic sentiments. Nothing doing, said Sukarno: "This is my flag. My wife made it"-as indeed his first wife had. Nothing daunted, Suharto sent soldiers to break open the cabinet and bring...
...third of its rubber and palm oil, two-fifths of its kapok and four-fifths of its pepper. Scattered throughout Indonesia's 3,000 verdant islands are rich mineral deposits -gold, tin, bauxite, tungsten-and oil reserves. "Indonesia is rich in natural resources," says Suharto, "but the damage done to our country's economy has been severe...