Word: sukarnoism
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...President Sukarno's white-pillared presidential palace at Djakarta, Java came report after report of revolt and separatist movements, from the northern tip of Sumatra on the Indian Ocean to Borneo, the Celebes and Amboina, some 3,000 miles away in the Banda Sea. There was a new outbreak in South Sumatra. It is largely the reputation of Sukarno that holds the sprawling Republic of Indonesia together, but what threatened to sever it last week was a recent decision by Sukarno himself: to include Indonesia's Communists in his government...
President Sukarno immediately proclaimed a state of war and siege throughout the republic "because of the critical situation...
...fabled Bali, East Indonesia has spawned half a dozen revolutionary movements-among them the fanatically Moslem Darul Islam and the so-called "Republic of the South Moluccas." At the head of last week's bloodless coup, however, was no sworn foe of the government but one of President Sukarno's favorites-handsome, 35-year-old Lieut. Colonel Ventje Sumual. A onetime sergeant in the Dutch army, and a Christian, who won Sukarno's affections while serving as his bodyguard. Colonel Sumual had the backing of 51 East Indonesian political and military leaders...
...Sumual's demands were much the same as those of the Sumatra rebels: autonomy within the Indonesian Republic, plus local control of the foreign exchange earned by East Indonesia's exports. But in Djakarta, Indonesian army spokesmen suggested that the spark which set off the revolt was Sukarno's plan to bring the Communists into a reorganized Indonesian government (TIME, March 4). Unless Sukarno backs down, he might one day find that he is President of little more than the island of Java...
...eyes of Indonesia's masses, how ever, eloquent Bung (Brother) Karno can do no wrong. This time, too, Sukarno had Indonesia's best-disciplined political party on his side. In Djakarta's buses, trains and streets jubilant Reds distributed thousands of leaflets hailing the President's plan, and in the downtown headquarters of the Communist Party a band played all day long...