Word: suharto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...series of confidential memoranda circulated within Harvard by officials of the Development Advisory Service (DAS) indicates that an important purpose of the DAS' economic work in Indonesia has been to provide political support for the military, Western-oriented regime of General Suharto...
...memoranda-made available by a west coast journalist to whom the DAS leaked them last March-suggested ways in which Suharto and his retinue of economists, civil servants, industrialists, and military personnel might make use of basic economic policy to broaden their domestic political base...
...addition, advice provided by the DAS to the Suharto government on regulating or curtailing foreign investment has been prompted in part by considerations of potential political difficulties, Papanek and Lester E. Gordon, the present director of the DAS, said yesterday...
...government is going to have to move fast to provide employment in the cities and increased assistance to agriculture," Papanek wrote in October 1968. "It seems to be serious about holding an election within the next two years and will have to do better than just avoiding chaos if Suharto is going to be popularly elected, which seems to be his present intention...
...commander who is most deeply involved in Indonesia's economics is Lieut. General Ibnu Sutowo. He bosses the state-owned oil company, Pertamina, which supervises operations of the 41 foreign oil companies that annually pump some 290 million barrels of petroleum from Indonesia's rich fields. Already Suharto's anticorruption commission has closeted itself for hours with Sutowo, digging into his use of Pertamina funds to expand his own influence and wealth. "I am convinced I have done nothing wrong," insisted General Sutowo in an interview with TIME Correspondent Louis Kraar. "Everybody is talking about corruption...