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...basis of several private DAS papers made available to the CRIMSON last month, this second claim is found to be equally misleading. Those reports-which concern the DAS' work in cooperation with General Suharto's military regime in Indonesia-paint a far clearer picture of what is actually meant by "personal reputations" than what is hinted at in the DAS statement. In none of those documents is any DAS member singled out for description; the only intimation of "personality" is made in connection with the DAS team as a whole, and these passages describe how the group stands in relation...
...concentrates on broad policy; the [World Bank] team on sector programs and project development; the Tinbergen [Dutch] team on three specific subject matters-regional-planning, manpower, and aid management..." This report also suggests, but leaves unstated, something that Papanek had spelled out clearly in his 1968 memorandum: Suharto pays close attention to his economists and "approves their recommendations in almost every instance...
...Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) supported but in which the extent of their role is still highly unclear. That uprising was directed not against the rule of the Sukarno government, whose reaction to the event was ambiguous, but against a group of high military officials and their supporters. General Suharto immediately instigated a coup (or counter-coup) and seized control of the country. Sukarno himself became a mere figurehead and was dislodged from office...
...general economy. In fact, few of these investments will have much immediate impact at all" (June 23, 1969). In the long run, they will leave Indonesia stripped of its natural resources. These governments do, however, act in the interest of foreign investors. Business Week explains, "With backing from Suharto, a team of government economists and technocrats has put out the welcome mat for foreign capital...
...Papanek says the present regime did not come to power by an anti-communist coup. This is absurd. Suharto did stage a coup in 1965, and it was directed against the Indonesian Communist Party, 500,000 of whose members and supporters were killed...