Word: sukarnoism
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Indonesia's swaggering President Sukarno almost never takes off his black military-cut pitji in public: he doesn't like to reveal the fact that he is getting balder as the years go by. But protective covering is not the only item in Sukarno's bag of political tricks. If Indonesia is in mild difficulty, Sukarno blames "Western colonialism"; if the country's difficulties begin to cause visible concern at home, he produces hair-raising tales of Dutch, English and U.S. sabotage; and when things really get bad, he trots out the tired, threadbare but ever...
Last week things were as bad in Indonesia as they have been at any time in the nation's eight years of independence. True to form, Sukarno sent his goon squads out into the street to whip up indignation over the Dutch refusal to hand over Dutch New Guinea. (Says Sukarno: "I don't get it. The Dutch have given us the main building, but they still cling to the garage.") Organized bands of hooligans smeared blood-and-thunder signs on cars and the walls of Dutch-owned shops and Australian homes from one end of Djakarta...
...Sukarno Must Go." The cost of living in Indonesia has shot up 36% in the past six months, 96% since 1953. Cotton textiles are up 40%, the price of rice higher than it has been at any time in 30 years. From Sumatra to Amboina, dissatisfied military leaders stirred in near rebellion. Lieut. Colonel Ventje Sumual, onetime Sukarno favorite who now leads dissident forces in East Indonesia (Celebes, Lesser Sundas and Moluccas), says 'flatly: "Sukarno must go." From Sumatra last week came word of a Communist-inspired attack on Indonesian regular army units stationed in the town of Siantar...
...West Irian question soon up for debate at the U.N., the Dutch fortified their case by issuing a joint statement with Australia pledging their governments to cooperate in the administration of their territories on the huge island of New Guinea, "to promote an uninterrupted development" toward self-determination. Warned Sukarno darkly: "If the United Nations fails us we will resort to methods which will startle the world...
Fighting for the truth has become a risky, lonely mission in strife-torn Indonesia. Since Sukarno's declaration of martial law last March, 17 papers have been padlocked for as long as eleven days at a time on the pretext of maintaining "peace and order." For editorial criticism of the government or even running "unofficial information," eleven editors have been arrested in the past ten months. None have been held as long without trial as Lubis. Embarrassed by his stubborn stand, the government offered to send him out of the country on a "scholarship." Indignantly rejecting the chance...