Word: indonesian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most fascinating character of the movie. Billy Kwan, a diminutive Eurasian photographer who seems to be the most well-connected person in town. Kwan, played by a woman, Linda Hunt, takes a liking to Hamilton and gets him a prized interview with the leader of the Indonesian communists who are about to launch their doomed coup of 1965. An unlikely team is born...
THAT MOOD comes through most clearly in one scene early in the film, one of the first discussions between Guy and Billy. The two are discussing the problems of the Indonesian masses, not with condescension but with an almost abject resignation to the enormity of the suffering Guy, summoning his journalistic instincts goes to where the "story" is, he believes that the "big actors" governments politicians--will bring salvation Billy, by contrast, sees the micro approach as best For him, it is in the small piecemeal actions of even the lowliest members of society that improvement will start...
...Undercover Agent David Barnett was having trouble making money from his antiques export firm when KGB agents approached him in Indonesia in the early 1970s. They were allegedly willing to pay $100,000 to hear his story of how the CIA had picked up Soviet military hardware from Indonesian naval officers in the 1960s, plus any other trivia about U.S. intelligence operations. In 1977 they prodded him to apply for positions on the Senate and House intelligence committees and the White House Intelligence Oversight Board. He was not accepted. FBI agents arrested...
...supplies into the Indonesian jungles: "Suddenly the people are feeling that they must throw out everything from the past and learn everything new." In rebuttal, missionaries argue that evolution toward modern ways is inevitable and that they can buffer the struggles more humanely for the tribes than would land and mineral developers...
...Asia: the interior of Irian Jaya (formerly Dutch New Guinea and now part of Indonesia). Dillinger, 51, and wife Lorraine, 48, work among Dani tribesmen cut off from the outside world by crocodile-infested, malarial lowlands and mountain ranges that soar to 13,000 ft. It is against Indonesian law to convert any person who already has a religion, and 88% of the country is Muslim. But the government does allow Christian missionary work, Minister for Religious Affairs Haji Alamajah Ratuprawiranegara acknowledged to TIME, "as long as it is only aimed at the animists." When Dillinger arrived 24 years...