Word: suharto
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While Nancy Reagan visited a group of Balinese exhibits within the safe confines of the Nusa Dua Beach Hotel complex and made a game try at Balinese dancing, her husband met with Indonesian President Suharto and the foreign ministers of the six members of the 19-year-old Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)--Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Brunei. Early in his speech, Reagan told an anecdote about two men who are running away from a bear they encountered in a forest. When one man stops to put on his running shoes, the other asks incredulously...
...White House press plane and escorted two reporters from the Australian Broadcasting Corp. to the terminal, where they were forced to wait for the next outbound plane. The journalists were denied entry under a ban triggered by an article in a Sydney newspaper that charged members of Indonesian President Suharto's family and some of his associates with pocketing billions of dollars through shady business deals. The piece compared Suharto and his wife Madame Tien to Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, dubbing Indonesia's First Lady "Madame Tien Per Cent." That same day New York Times Correspondent Barbara Crossette was expelled...
...expulsions illustrated, there is a delicate balance between freedom and authoritarianism in Indonesia. For two decades President Suharto, 64, has struggled to maintain stability in his strategically located republic. The archipelago's 13,677 islands sprawl 3,200 miles across some of the world's busiest East-West sea-lanes. With 173 million citizens, 87% of them Muslims, Indonesia is the world's fifth most populous nation. Though nonaligned, it has been friendly toward the U.S., and vice versa...
Marcos is neither the longest-reigning nor the most dictatorial leader in the region. Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, whose autocratic skills are legendary, has dominated his city-state for 27 years; Indonesia's ; President Suharto has been unchallenged for 18 years. But both of those men, as well as Taiwan's Chiang Ching-kuo, have matched their severity with an ability to provide a rising standard of living for an ever increasing number of citizens. Says Whiting: "Many of us are impressed with Marcos' political acumen but feel that some of his economic policies are questionable...
Unlike the Philippines, Indonesia has enjoyed political calm, for the most part, during the 18-year tenure of President Suharto. But the archipelago faces economic challenges. Falling oil prices have cut Indonesia's earnings from its chief export, and the country's current account deficit will be about $4.2 billion this year. On the bright side, agricultural production is strong. Narongchai predicted that Indonesia will achieve 4.5% growth...