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...Suharto and his government, flattered by so many foreign arrivals, the testing time is still ahead. "The ideas," said one U.S. executive in Djakarta last week, "are all good, sound and logical. The big problem now is implementing these beautiful ideas." That may take a long while, but at least a start is being made...
...Sultan and Indonesia's new boss Suharto have plenty of other economic problems. Inflation is rampant, and Sukarno, who scorned foreign aid, left the country with massive international debts. Suharto's "New Order," though, is beginning to make some order out of the mess, with advice from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. A moratorium has been arranged on debt repayments, a total of $230 million in aid has been arranged from nations in both the East and West blocs, and Suharto hopes to achieve a balanced national budget of $813 million this year. Most significantly...
This taunting tune is the latest hit song in Djakarta, and 6,000 students sang it lustily last week as they marched through the capital's streets in camouflage shirts. They were celebrating the first anniversary of the student demonstrations that thrust General Suharto and his colleagues into power as Indonesia's rulers. The appearance of the song also marked the start of what, his enemies hope, will be a final drive to oust Sukarno, 65, the long-revered bapak (father) of Indonesia's revolution and the country's ruler for 22 years...
...decades of independence?the Philippine Republic endures as Asia's freest democracy. It is no "showcase," to be sure, but it stands as a model of hope for all of non-Communist Southeast Asia: from the introverted Burma of Neutralist General Ne Win to the bankrupt chaos of Suharto's Indonesia; from royalist Thailand through Malaysia to trifurcated Laos; and certainly to South Viet Nam itself...
Whether the former bank chief's dis closures would tarnish Sukarno's image with the Indonesian masses is questionable. But General Suharto was patient. Scheduled for trial are 14 more former Cabinet members, including onetime Deputy Premier Subandrio, who, say military investigators, masterminded the plot with Sukarno's support-to steer Indonesia into Peking's camp via last October's abortive Communist coup...