Articles
Mohammad Hatta
Indonesia's struggle for independence is typically identified with one larger-than-life figure: the irrepressible Sukarnoproud, charismatic, a firebrand orator,...
INDONESIA: Unyielding Son
In one of Indonesia's many crises three years ago, a young army officer named Zulkifli Lubis helped President Soekarno out of a tight spot. He was one of the...
INDONESIA: The Women Scorned
In its first heady days of independence, Indonesia's rallying cry was Merdeka (freedom). Posters quoted the American Declaration of Independence and the...
Indonesia: The Sukarno Method
Indonesia's Sukarno likes to observe the forms of international law the better to violate them. Since expropriation of foreign property is very bad form...
Indonesia: Now He's Going Now He Isn't
On the surface at least, it seemed that Indonesia's President Sukarno had finally fallen from power. In a ten-minute session with his Cabinet, the man who had...
INDONESIA: Which Way Out?
As the seventh year of Indonesian independence drew to a close, the world's fourth largest democracy (pop. 80 million) was behaving something like a banana...
INDONESIA: Weight Thrower
Gathered in noisy convention amidst the moldering elegance of a onetime Dutch social club, the members of Indonesia's ruling Nationalist Party cheered a...
Malaysia: Same Old Sukarno
A summit conference used to mean a meeting of the world's top leaders.* Nowadays, just about any get-together between heads of government is billed a summit,...
Indonesia: Reducing the Aura
When President Sukarno decided to pester Malaysia with his konfrontasi, a kind of demi-war in which feints are more important than fighting, he little imagined...
World: Indonesia: Goodbye to Bapa/c
IN death as in life, Sukarno was a problem. As Indonesia's deposed President last week succumbed at 69 after a long bout with kidney stones and high blood...
