Word: sukarnoism
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...obscure army officer three years ago, Suharto took command of the military after putting down a Communist coup attempt in 1965, then slowly began to take charge of the government. Indonesia first regarded his quiet but drastic moves as a necessary antidote to the grandiose, 22-year misrule of Sukarno. Initially diffident even about accepting the title of Acting President, Suharto finally decided that he needed the full title to give him the authority necessary to make reforms. Once decided, he used every tactic he could to get the title-including packing the assembly by replacing 200 old members...
...obvious keys to attracting capital are economic good sense and political sanity. Without those, foreign capital will not flow in and domestic capital will flow out. When governments begin to welsh, devaluate and expropriate, capital flees. Such was the case with Indonesia under Sukarno and Brazil under Goulart. And merely printing money cannot create capital. All that that usually does is bring on inflation. When prices soar and money values decline, people usually put their money into goods instead of savings...
...been 18 months since Indone sia began to shake off the throbbing economic hangover left by President Sukarno. And though the country still has a long way to go, encouraging signs are multiplying...
...Board. He describes 1967 as the "year of promotion," when Indonesians and potential foreign investors got acquaint ed, both in Djakarta and in Geneva, at a conference sponsored by Time Inc. last November. Courting private cap ital, the new regime has returned virtu ally all foreign properties seized by Sukarno, promised tax holidays and easy repatriation of profits to all newcomers...
During President Sukarno's konfrontasi with Malaysia, the Indonesian army equipped, trained and sheltered guerrillas to harass the Malaysians along the two countries' common border on the island of Borneo. Now the move has boomeranged. Once Sukarno's successor, General Suharto, had ended the foolish quarrel with Malaysia, the guerrillas were left on their own in the jungles of Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo. Peking, which sees the island's large Chinese population as the advance phalanx for an ultimate Communist takeover, has been exhorting the mostly Chinese guerrillas not only to continue to offer...