Word: suharto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Foreign companies have complained that they were forced to make payoffs in order to get permission to do business in Indonesia. Foreign investors, who are not eager to commit their money to a country where they feel corruption is holding back true economic progress, reported their objections to President Suharto, a general who is a scrupulously honest man. He listened and evidently agreed...
Last week, in an address to Parliament on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the country's independence, President Suharto pledged an all-out attack on corruption in high places. "The fight against corruption is under my direct leadership," he declared. He endorsed recommendations prohibiting government officials from accepting commissions from Indonesian and foreign businessmen. He ordered high of ficials to report their total incomes, including profits from extracurricular activities. He has also ordered the attorney general to streamline an anticorruption task force, and he submitted to Parliament a new bill that would render those who accept kickbacks...
...Program. Suharto faces a tough battle against corruption, for Indonesia, like most Asian countries, finds graft and payoffs an almost necessary way of life. Loyalties belong first to family and friends, with the country running a poor second...
...pleasant memory. Undaunted, peripatetic Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands paid a state visit to Djakarta -the first member of the royal family to do so in more than 130 years. Queen Juliana's 58-year-old consort came away with the nickname "Prince Charming." Kneeling before President Suharto after a state dinner, the Prince bent low and said farewell in traditional Javanese fashion, enclosing the President's hands in his own. Suharto burst into tears...
...reason is that the army has a virtual monopoly on the country's managerial and technological skills. Suharto is trying to encourage more civilian participation, but he is unlikely to get very far by 1971, when general elections are scheduled. As an Indonesian intellectual puts it: "General elections will mean the election of the generals...