Word: sukarno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although he now has West Irian safely in his grasp, Indonesia's President Sukarno has called for the continued massive build-up of Indonesia's army. His purpose: to be ready for any other chance to grab territory that might present itself, and to placate the army, the strongest and most restive element of his power...
Nimble-Footed. Sukarno smoothly plays the 250,000-man army off against the other major prop of his regime, Indonesia's 2,000,000-member Communist Party, third largest in the world after those of Russia and Red China. The army has seven ministries in his Cabinet to the Communists' two, enjoys the accrued privileges and profits of almost unlimited power. Leader of Indonesia's armed forces is Defense Minister General Abdul Haris Nasution, 43, whose popularity among the military enables him to hold the highly independent army in check-and to change sides nimbly. Nasution...
Primitive as West New Guinea is, Indonesia's President Sukarno is determined to keep it as his own hobby. Hours after the changeover from Dutch to U.N. control, a planeload of Indonesian officials flew into Hollandia to "help" the U.N. They promised the moon: $100 million worth of development aid, 2,000 teachers, establishment of a West Irian university. Purpose of pledges: to con the Papuans out of any independence movement that might jeopardize control by Indonesia, the new imperial power in the area...
...devout Moslem, Nasution is antiCommunist, but has been prevented from really cracking down on Indonesia's Reds by Sukarno, who repeatedly warns against "Communist phobia." Only when the Communists use violence does Sukarno permit the army to intervene. Moreover, many of Indonesia's most ardent anti-Reds are in jail under Nasution's orders because they advocated more freedom than he thought was necessary...
...Sukarno project is already finished -the handsome, impressive $17 million complex built to house that monument to international acrimony through sports, the recently completed Asian Games. It has been renamed Bung (Brother) Karno Sports Center. Since the whole of any monument is only equal to the sum of its parts, the parts have also been renamed: Bung Karno Sports Hall, Bung Karno Stadium, Bung Karno Swimming Pool, Bung Karno Hockey Stadium. Most of the 50,000 citizens displaced by the Bung Karno Sports Center are still living in Djakarta shantytowns. About their only recourse is to pray at the world...