OF the various revolutions that have taken place in Asia since the end of the Second World War, the revolution in Indonesia has been the longest-lasting. Only one other has been as shattering in its ...

Indonesia’s usually cocky President Sukarno seemed tired, nervous and uncertain. While his government’s reckless campaign to seize The Netherlands’ vast commercial holdings continued apace, Sukarno ...

For countries like the Netherlands that were invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany, the subject of World War II can be painful to discuss. According to Dutch historian Frances Gouda, currently a ...

On 29 April Indonesia executed seven foreigners and one Indonesian for drug offences. The refusal of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) to offer clemency despite pleas from foreign leaders has been ...

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ONE of the strangest political events to take place anywhere during this century was, undoubtedly, the transformation of the huge new island republic of Indonesia, at the beginning of the present ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. President Sukarno enjoys doing the unexpected, particularly if it can bring him a political advantage.

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The telephone at the headquarters of the Indonesian Party (Partindo) rang one afternoon in late November 1963. On the other end of the line was Kwee Loan Nio—better known as ...