Word: sukarno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington diplomat" may be right about Indonesia's going Communist in the Dutch-Indonesian conflict. Ever since Sukarno has been president in Indonesia (1945), nationalism has been equivalent to opportunism. After Dutch West New Guinea, Indonesia's next targets will be British West Borneo, Portuguese Timor and Australian East New Guinea...
Indonesia's economic crisis grew daily more acute. In Central Java, hungry peasants were reported eating field mice. President Sukarno lingered on, neither ruling nor resting, though the government announced that he was leaving any minute for a vacation tour which would range from Tokyo to Cairo. But government officials were working to stop the forcible seizure of Dutch properties by workers inflamed with nationalist fervor at The Netherlands' refusal to discuss the question of West Irian (Netherlands New Guinea). In East Java, Indonesian army officers confronted a mob that had surrounded the home of a Dutch estate...
Late Word. Ever since Sukarno touched off his expel-the-Dutch campaign, Indonesian moderates had been waiting hopefully for some word from quiet, capable Dr. Mohammed Hatta. First elected Vice President in 1945, Hatta is Indonesia's best-known politician after Sukarno, is regarded by many Indonesians as a much more stable and responsible statesman. He resigned 13 months ago in disgust at the President's insistence on including Communists in his Cabinet, has since rejected all overtures to come back into the government...
Changed Course. In the immediate future Indonesia's political fate may well hinge on the ability of 39-year-old General Nasution to win and hold the restless loyalty of the colonels. Some, while nominally accepting orders from Nasution, still feel he is too much under President Sukarno's spell. They claim that it is Sukarno's own political shortsightedness that has put the Communists on the road to becoming the strongest of all political parties in Java...
Last week General Nasution and Premier Djuanda seemed to be intent on proving themselves more responsible than Sukarno. General Nasution issued a flat "hands-off" order to Red-led SOBSI workers who wanted to seize the vast Royal Dutch Shell Co. holdings in Surabaya and Balikpapan. And at week's end Premier Djuanda announced that the fountainhead of the anti-Dutch campaign, Sukarno's Action Committee to Liberate West Irian (West New Guinea), had been dissolved, its functions taken over by the National Council...