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Indonesia. President Sukarno last week prepared to leave his revolt and dissent-torn country for a prolonged rest. Both he and the country needed it. Sukarno, in a wild bid to whip up enthusiasm for Indonesia's claim to Dutch New Guinea, has brought the country's economy almost to a standstill with his reckless and illegal seizures of Dutch commercial and agricultural properties. Whether the country's well-organized Communist Party may make a bid for power, or whether it will be effectively countered by the anti-Communist officers of the army, is still in doubt...
Stern Warning. The first seizures had often been carried out by workers from SOB SI and other Communist-led unions encouraged by Sukarno's inflammatory denunciation of the Dutch for their refusal to hand over West Irian (the western portion of New Guinea). But in the crisis' second week, the Indonesian government made clear that when there was seizing to be done, the government would do it. Premier Djuanda sharply toned down Sukarno's "hate-the-Dutch" campaign, said that Dutch citizens and Dutch properties would receive full government protection. SOBSI agitators were told by army...
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Dec. 19--The military today put the first squeeze on non-Dutch Western business in Jakarta since the onset of the angry dispute with the Netherlands over West New Guinea...
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Dec. 18--Premier Djuanda told newsmen today the government has officially taken over major Dutch industries in Indonesia and if the Dutch want compensation they must turn over Dutch West New Guinea...
...said, whether West New Guinea is yielded to Indonesia or not, the Dutch never will regain the powerful economic position they had held here...