Word: jakarta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...full-scale Vietnamese invasion would also destroy the new, peaceful image that Hanoi has begun to project. To win friends and secure reconstruction credits, the Vietnamese have made friendly overtures to Communist and non-Communist nations alike. Economic missions have been dispatched to Jakarta and Singapore...
...real business of Asia is now unmistakably business. Every country seems to be chasing after the Japanese economic miracle. Everybody is talking about growth rate, per capita income, foreign investment, development loans. Office skyscrapers and luxury hotels are blooming in Seoul, Manila, Jakarta and Singapore. Hong Kong is wall-to-wall skyline. It is all very heady and hopeful...
...Moluccans seek independence for their homeland, a cluster of 800 Spice Islands in the Indonesian archipelago, which they fled after the Dutch colonial empire collapsed in 1949 and an independent government in Jakarta took control. Even after 26 years of exile, the 40,000 Moluccans in The Netherlands have still not been assimilated into...
...archipelago of 3,000 mineral-rich islands scattered over 3,000 miles of ocean. Just as it lured Arab traders and Dutch colonialists in centuries past, Indonesia today entices Western and Japanese businessmen interested in a financial killing. The sight of safari-suited foreigners sitting by the pools of Jakarta's luxury hotels, drinking Bintang beer and talking about pipelines, drill sites and tax laws, is testimony to the seductive pull of Indonesia's untapped natural resources...
High Grades. The bribery and bureaucratic malfeasance that nearly drove Pertamina under is far from rare in Indonesia. Says a Jakarta schoolteacher who is accustomed to rewarding the children of officers and bureaucrats with high grades in return for gifts from their fathers: "If you can get into the government, you can get rich." Unless they pay off, merchants find it all but impossible to get papers signed, exports loaded aboard ships or vital spare parts released from customs sheds. "The official just sits behind his desk and opens up a drawer," says the regional manager of an American company...