Word: sukarnoism
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...shirt indicated, Kesminas has been spending time with Australia's northern neighbors, and while on a residency at Yogyakarta's Indonesian Art Institute in 2005, the artist hooked up with some like-minded students to form the garage band Punkasila. Their name is a punk play on founding President Sukarno's five pillars of nationhood, Pancasila; just as playfully, the band like to riff on the names of the institutions that dominate post-reformasi Indonesian society, from TNI (Indonesian National Military) to KOPASSUS (Special Force Command...
...Aides say the remote Megawati, who spent much of her childhood in the presidential palace when it was the residence of her father Sukarno, has found it difficult to accept the magnitude of her rejection by Indonesia's voters. "I don't know why it was such a surprise to her," says University of Indonesia political scientist Eep Saefulloh Fatah. "All she had to do was look at the polls. Everyone said that [Yudhoyono] would win." He adds that the President's petulance tarnishes what should be a moment of triumph despite her huge election loss. "It's a shame...
...Asep's frustration should be tripping the alarms in the offices of President Megawati Sukarnoputri. The daughter of Indonesia's founding father Sukarno, Megawati, 57, is called Ibu (Mother) by her adoring supporters, and not long ago she embodied an egalitarian Indonesia no longer dominated by Suharto's cozy cabal of politicians and businessmen. But after two ineffective and inconsistent years in office, Megawati has started to look more like Mini-wati in the eyes of the disillusioned masses, who are voicing their disappointment at the ballot box. Members of her Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (known by its Indonesian...
...Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana. Another threat is posed by Megawati's former security chief, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of the Democrat Party, who rivals his former boss in opinion polls. Even so, Megawati remains the candidate to beat in July, thanks to her pedigree as daughter of Indonesia's founding President Sukarno. No other Indonesian politician has the same national recognition as the woman referred to by many as "Mother Mega...
...supports a rebellion against Indonesian President Achmed Sukarno. The rebels fail, and an American mercenary pilot working for the agency is shot down and captured with papers revealing his employer...