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...long-postponed Provisional Peoples Consultative Congress convene by June 1. The students want Congress to strip Sukarno of his President-for-life title, call new elections, and provide for a return to parliamentary rule. After several stormy days in the streets, one group of students called on the Sultan of Jogjakarta, Suharto's economics chief, and learned that Congress would likely convene in July, well before Sukarno's customary Independence Day policy speech...
When Sukarno realized that the Congress might indeed dilute his already weakened presidential powers, he angrily summoned Suharto and the other triumvirate members, Foreign Minister Adam Malik and the Sultan of Jogjakarta, the economics chief, to a meeting at the Djakarta home of his lovely Japanese-born wife Ratna Sara Dewi...
...British Novelist Anthony Burgess flew home from Brunei, where he had spent five years as an educational consultant to the Sultan, to undergo examination for a suspected tumor of the brain. The suspicion proved baseless, and after six weeks in London's National Hospital, Burgess was released, sound as a pound. In most men, the experience would have produced no more than a sigh of relief. In Burgess, it excited the wild flight of imagination that produced this novel...
...most telling indictment of Sukarno was made on the grounds of his past economic policies by Deputy Premier Hamengku Buwono IX, the Sultan of Jogjakarta, who is the third man in the triumvirate with Suharto and Foreign Minister Adam Malik. Indonesia owes $2.4 billion to foreign creditors, said the sultan, and faces economic collapse unless it receives foreign aid. Its economy is so inflated that prices may rise 1,000% this year. The sultan reversed Sukarno's socialism by inviting new foreign investment and a strengthening of the private sector, also called for a halt to grandiose building projects...
...Sukarno associates for minor roles. But the men who would call the shots were Suharto, in charge of defense and security; brainy former Ambassador to Moscow Adam Malik, in charge of foreign affairs as well as social and political matters; and widely respected Hamengku Buwono IX, the Sultan of Djokjakarta, in charge of economic, financial and developmental affairs. Back in the government, though not in the top rank, was General Abdul Haris Nasution, dumped by Sukarno as Defense Minister in February in a move that set the Indonesian political pot aboiling. With Suharto, impassive in open-necked khaki uniform...