Word: sukarnoism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amateur architect as well as a semipro statesman, Indonesia's President Sukarno often seems bored by the problems of building up his country's economy and feeding its population. Building up the skyline is much more pleasing, and it costs about the same. Last week Sukarno was still working hard at one of his theories: "Asians must show they can do big things as well as anybody else...
...biggest. The diameter of Merdeka's cupola will be 147 ft., or 40 ft. wider than the cupola of Istanbul's Hagia Sophia. Merdeka will hold 100,000 worshipers, twice the capacity of Lahore's Shah Badi Mosque. Since unbalancing the budget is also something Sukarno does big, part of the mosque's $30 million cost is being raised by more or less forced public subscription...
Raising money for building in Djakarta is like planning a charity ball in Manhattan : there is plenty of high-sounding competition. The National Monument Fund, for instance, is building two monuments. A national monument in the shape of a 300-ft. obelisk is going up across from Sukarno's palace. Also in construction is a 120-ft. West Irian monument memorializing the recent diplomatic conquest of Dutch New Guinea. Designed by the Big Builder himself, the West Irian monument is topped by a 30-ft. bronze man breaking out of his chains. Meanwhile government spending on social welfare...
When the Asian Games were started eleven years ago, their aim was to foster good will among nations of all political, racial and religious backgrounds. After the third Asiad in Tokyo in 1958, mercurial, left-leaning Sukarno successfully lobbied to hold the fourth in Djakarta in hopes of boosting Indonesia's prestige. To aid his chances, the Russians built Sukarno a $17 million stadium...
...Sneaky Chinese." Conspicuously absent were Nationalist China and Israel, both accredited members of the Asian Games Federation. Neither nation, as it happens, is recognized by Indonesia's government, which generally sides with the Arab nations and Communist China in international disputes. Red China had pressured Sukarno for months to exclude Formosa; the Arab bloc did its best to convince Big Bung (brother) that it would be a diplomatic embarrassment for a Moslem nation like Indonesia to play host to Jewish athletes. To keep the two countries out, Sukarno used some gold-medal gamesmanship...