Word: surabaja
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leaned increasingly on the Communists. He admires their dynamic ability to organize monster demonstrations with all of the theatrical effects-banners, chanted slogans, parades, fiery speeches-which have always been his weakness. But the Communists frighten him too. Says an intimate: "If they staged rival rallies in, say, Surabaja, I am convinced the Communists would outdraw Sukarno. This would kill him. He knows the Commies can outdraw him, and so he has to stay with them...
Backward Teachers. Sukarno was born in a small village about 60 miles from the seaport city of Surabaja in 1901, the only son of an impoverished Javanese schoolteacher named Sukemi* and a high-caste Balinese mother, Ida Njoman...
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