Word: sukarno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fast approaching, but where was The Flag-that noble, faded, tattered remnant of red and white cloth that had been run up the flagpole once a year since Indonesia gained its freedom in 1945? It was in a locked cabinet, and the keeper of the key was old Father Sukarno, 66, who was still mad enough about being deposed that he refused to hand it over. President Suharto even sent a delegation out to the Bung's "retirement" villa at Bogor to appeal to his patriotic sentiments. Nothing doing, said Sukarno: "This is my flag. My wife made...
During the long, unhappy dictatorship of Sukarno, Christian missionaries in Indonesia were plagued by Communist troublemakers and Moslem terrorists, and subjected to periodic harassment by a capricious government. Today, the predominantly Moslem nation-in which Christians number less than 10% of the 110 million population-is the scene of an explosive evangelical revival that the U.S. journal Presbyterian Life calls "one of the largest movements toward Christianity in modern decades." In the 20 months since the anti-Communist revolution, Roman Catholic and Protestant churches have won an estimated 250,000 converts...
Many converts are disillusioned ex-followers of Communism, and the highest conversion rates occur in areas that, before Sukarno's downfall, were most heavily infested with Reds. Says a Baptist missionary in Djakarta: "When Communism failed in its promise to provide these people with an inner conviction, they switched to Christianity." Less sanguine, some church leaders suspect that all too many of the converts have switched less out of faith than fear; public opinion still links atheism with membership in the banned, decimated Indonesian Communist Party...
...other Asian economies are less thriving, most are reversing the downward spiral. Indonesia, having bloodily saved itself from Communist takeover, now has to repair the intrinsically rich economy that Sukarno wrecked. Malaysia may yet fragment into its original pieces, but at least it has been relieved of the huge burden imposed by Indonesia's harassing little war. Prosperous Australia and New Zealand, though far to the south, now firmly consider themselves-and are accepted by Asians-as a part of Asia, and take a major hand in Asian councils. A U.S. observer summarizes: "The Asians are not thrashing around...
Melted Ears. Decameron (Ron) Grant, 36, is a playwright with the genius of an O'Neill and the sexual insatiability of a Sukarno. He is strictly a four-letter man, and he has manhood problems and a domineering mistress-an older woman who with her husband nurtured the young playwright's talents in his more golden days. To rediscover himself, Grant heads for the Caribbean to go skindiving. In addition to a shark or two, he spears beautiful Lucky Videndi, and as he tries to work out a modus vivendi with her, he alternates between ocean...