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...Sultan v. Sultan. When the Indonesian Republic began its rebellion against the Dutch, the Sultan helped set up a bevy of federated Indonesian states to provide native opposition to the Republic...
While the Sultan of West Borneo served Holland, another Indonesian potentate, Sultan Hamengku Buwono of Jogjakarta, threw his own hereditary power on the side of the revolutionary Republic. As the Republic's Defense Minister, the Sultan of Jogjakarta built a Republican army out of scattered guerrilla bands...
Four months ago, the merger of the Republic and the federated states into the independent United States of Indonesia finally put the two sultans in the same camp. Both of them went after the post of Defense Minister of the new nation. The Sultan of Jogjakarta, whose Republican friends dominated the central government, got the job. The Sultan of West Borneo was appointed cabinet minister without portfolio...
...ruler of West Borneo took his setback with apparent calm. He remained calm as the new central government quickly set about gobbling up its member states, wiping out the federal system he had sponsored. During the January revolt of former Dutch Captain "Turk" Westerling, the Sultan of West Borneo appeared to be completely loyal to the government, continued to attend cabinet meetings and make the rounds of official parties...
Secret Orders. But one afternoon in early April top cabinet ministers held a rump meeting without the Sultan of West Borneo, sent a secret order to President Soekarno for signature. Then they went off to attend the local opening of the movie Joan...