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...dust settle before the heads roll," counsels a Javanese proverb. For several days following the disastrous rioting in the streets of Jakarta that accompanied the visit of Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka (TIME, Jan. 28), the Indonesian government of General Suharto reacted hardly at all. Then, barely a week after the disturbances that had left eleven people dead, 807 automobiles gutted and 144 buildings damaged, the government retaliated. It shut down nine newspapers and arrested 775 persons, including 21 of Jakarta's most prominent intellectuals. The government's aim, declared one of the President's personal assistants, General...
Even as it moved against its noisiest critics, the Suharto government seemed to be admitting that many of the students' complaints had been valid. The Cabinet announced a new code of conduct aimed at reducing corruption. For example, officials will no longer be permitted to buy "personal" gifts for friends and business associates with government funds...
Appearing before the Indonesian Journalists' Association, General Suharto denied press reports linking his wife Ibu Tien (whom some foreign papers have unkindly dubbed "Ibu Ten Percent") to the ownership of four companies. One of those firms, the largest Toyota dealership in Jakarta, had been gutted by flames during the rioting...
...announced intention of student groups to give him a fiery welcome. Ten students broke through the tight cordon and were caught on the airfield just before Tanaka's arrival. A powerful array of riot police and troops in battle dress saw to it that Indonesian President Suharto and his guest arrived on time at the white Dutch-colonial guesthouse in the spacious compound of the President's official residence. At that point hardly anyone could foresee that for the duration of his stay, Tanaka would be a virtual prisoner within this compound, guarded by hundreds of tough commando...
Perfect Harmony. While riots flared through the city, Suharto gave a state dinner for Tanaka in the heavily guarded presidential palace. Declared the host: "This meeting and Your Excellency's presence within our midst... may facilitate Your Excellency's wish to become intimate with the current problems and issues of the Indonesian people, their feelings, their hopes." Tanaka answered by expressing his thanks for having been granted the opportunity to "witness at first hand [how] the great people of Indonesia have built a society of perfect harmony...