Word: sastroamidjojo
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...post-election diplomatic reception in Djakarta last week, a Western newsman remarked to Nationalist Party Leader Ali Sastroamidjojo: "I reckon you are pleased with the way things have turned out." Retorted the ex-Premier with a smile: "I reckon...
...largely responsible for the existence of the republic, having helped liberate Indonesia from the Japanese in World War II and encouraged its break from Dutch colonial rule. The young republic has traveled an increasingly extreme course: fiercely independent, determinedly neutralist and finally-in the reign of Premier Ali-Sastroamidjojo-openly hostile to the U.S. and friendly to Red China. The Sastroamidjojo regime, rotted from within by corruption and Communists, collapsed last month. Last week Indonesia's new, young (38) Premier sang a different and more refreshing tune. Burhanuddin Harahap, who leads Indonesia's largest party, is heading...
After 18 days without a government, Indonesia got a new Premier to replace Dr. Ali Sastroamidjojo, whose Red-supported Nationalists fell afoul of the Indonesian army. In came Burhanuddin Harahap, 38, lawyer and onetime guerrilla who headed the Masjumi bloc in Parliament, Indonesia's strongest Moslem (and antiCommunist) party. Ignoring the discredited Nationalists, Harahap patched together a coalition of twelve other parties, and will provide a caretaker regime until Sept. 29, when Indonesians go to the polls for their first national election since becoming a nation six years...
...side. The officers who lead Indonesia's quarter-million-man army were in revolt against Defense Minister Iwa Kusumasumantri, an admitted Marxist. They refused to accept a chief of staff he approved. Backed by the army brass, Colonel Lubis stood firm against both Kusumasumantri and Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo's government, which President Soekarno has repeatedly shored up with his own personal prestige...
With the army's ranks unbroken, Marxist Kusumasumantri finally had to quit his defense post, and last week he joined Soekarno on a flying pilgrimage to Mecca. Five days later, Ali Sastroamidjojo's government fell. It had held power for two years, longer than any other of Indonesia's twelve governments in the country's ten years of independence. Involved in the fall was Soekarno's own prestige, though he remains his country's most popular figure...