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Four months ago President Sukarno proclaimed his konsepsi for Indonesia's chaos: "guided democracy." Just what is "guided democracy"? Fortnight ago Sukarno made it all too clear: "The people have to be organized, guided and taught from above. When I was in the Chinese People's Republic, I was deeply impressed by the stupendous reconstruction work being done. Why? Because the Chinese people take an active part, with love and earnestness. This is also true of Russia. We. too, can do the same thing...
...week wore on, the jungle was heard from. In Sumatra, headquarters of the revolutionary Banteng Council, Colonels Maludin Simbolon and Ahmad Husein told Christian Science Monitor Correspondent Gordon Walker flatly that they would have no part of Sukarno's "guided democracy" or of his Emergency Cabinet. When told they were about to be visited by the chief of the Emergency Cabinet, Colonel Husein answered: "We'll listen politely, but continue on our chosen path." Both Husein and Simbolon said that they felt Sukarno was on the decline, indicated quite openly that they would prefer to see him replaced...
...Premier of his Emergency Cabinet, Sukarno designated Dr. Djuanda, 45, a soft-spoken and widely respected banker, engineer and government planner who has served in 12 posts in the 16 preceding Cabinets that have tried, all unsuccessfully, to govern Indonesia since 1945. When Djuanda returned from a visit to Peking two years ago, he said: "Red China's claim of ability to extend economic or technical aid to Indonesia is nothing but a hoax...
Most Indonesians trusted Dr. Djuanda; they did not trust Sukarno's pro-Red ministers. Principal target of criticism was Stalin Peace Prizewinner Prijono, whom Sukarno named Minister of Education. Opposition politicians (including the powerful Moslem anti-Communist Masjumi Party, Indonesia's second largest, which ordered a boycott of the Cabinet), objected to at least three other Communist-line ministers...
After convening his new Cabinet, Sukarno poured on his considerable personal charm for his ministers and their wives, invited some 200 guests to special screenings of two movies, both made in Communist Czechoslovakia: one, The Emperor's Baker; the other, Sukarno's Visit to Czechoslovakia. A reporter asked Sukarno: "How long will the Emergency Cabinet last?" "If God wills it," replied the President inscrutably, ''this Cabinet may last just...