Word: indonesian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nutmeg from the green islands to the Chinese mainland. By the time the first Dutch colonists arrived, the Chinese had built small sugar mills and had the rudimentary commerce of the archipelago well in hand. They stayed on and prospered under the Dutch, and sided with the Dutch against Indonesian independence. After the Dutch lost, the Chinese entrenched themselves better than ever in the first confused years of the new republic...
...When the Indonesian army went right on supervising the removal of Chinese from villages, Communist Chinese Consul Ho An drove out to rural Tjibadak and made a speech comparing Indonesia's actions to Hitler's massacres. Ho then continued on tour through the countryside encouraging the Chinese to resist removal, reminding the Chinese what great support they had given "the thankless Indonesians" in their revolution, and promising Peking's support...
...Rice Eaters. On average, the number of calories consumed by Asians, Africans and Latin Americans has increased since World War II. What has changed is the unwillingness of poorer peoples to accept undernourishment. Said an Indonesian delegate to the FAO conference: "More Indonesians are eating rice than ever before. The result is that more Indonesians want it. People who have never had rice before have decided that they like...
Waves of Myth. As Hughes sees it. American diplomacy, especially under the late John Foster Dulles, failed in three major ways: 1) Pursuing desirable but impracticable aims. Example: advocating "liberation" of the Eastern Europe satellites. 2) Pursuing contradictory aims. Example: aiding rebel Indonesian army officers while maintaining ostensibly amicable relations with President Sukarno. 3) Equating mere proclamation with policy. Example: the Eisenhower Doctrine for the Middle East, an attempt to scare off Soviet infiltration that, in Author Hughes's opinion, failed...
...powerful Chinese community, numbering about 2,500,000 and controlling much of the Indonesian economy, was sure that Sukarno's drastic measures were directed against it. The public seemed to like the idea of soaking the rich and the alien, while leading newspapers agreed that at least something drastic had to be done. But as business, with no capital to operate, ground to a standstill, the first reaction to Sukarno's bold move was stagnation and frustration...