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...attack. Last April General Nasution, who is not so much pro-Western as pro his country's independence, banned the biggest Red weapon-mass demonstrations- and followed it with an order prohibiting strikes. When SOBSI recklessly decided on a test of strength and called a plantation strike in Sumatra, the army swiftly broke it, arrested eight union officers. In central Java last month, police jailed eleven known Communists, seized caches of small arms and munitions...
Kiss for the Girls. The Reds turned for help to President Sukarno, whom they had strongly supported-and tried to make their captive-when the Sumatra colonels began their 1958 right-wing revolt in the Outer Islands. Two years ago, dissatisfied with the role of Indonesia's three leading non-Communist parties, Sukarno had called for Communist participation in the government because "a horse can't stand on three legs." Now an officer boasts that the army "will provide the fourth...
...sprawling Republic of Indonesia-a nation of hundreds of islands and 80 million people-moves into its tenth year of independence, its existence remains precarious. Some 10,000 rebels still infest the outer islands. In Sumatra 14 rubber plantations have been put to the torch in a single month. The gold backing for the printing-press currency is down to 7.85%, although the legal minimum is supposed to be 20%. Factories and industrial plants are operating at scarcely 60% of capacity because foreign exchange is lacking for raw materials and spare parts...
Outnumbered, outgunned, outgeneraled, and easily outfought, the rebels in Sumatra last week were pushed to the wall...
...somewhere in the Pacific" and had already made bombing raids on government airfields. At Menado, too, was Colonel Alex E. Kawilarang, the former military attaché at the Indonesian embassy in Washington, who was named the rebel commander in chief. But if the rebellion could not flourish in rugged Sumatra, it was not apt to survive for long in less populous Celebes...