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  Sukarno - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sukarno was forced from power by one of his generals, Suharto, who formally became President in March 1967.
Sukarno's government initially refused to form a national army, for fear of antagonizing the Allied occupation forces and their doubt over whether they would have been able to form an adequate military apparatus to maintain control of seized territory.
Sukarno was stripped of his presidential title by Indonesia's provisional parliament on March 12, 1967, led by his former ally, Nasution, and remained under house arrest until his death at age 69 in Jakarta in 1970.
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 Sukarno - Wikipédia
Sukarno was forced from power by one of his Generals, Suharto, who was granted the formal title of President in March 1967.
Sukarno oge biasa disebut Ahmed Sukarno atawa Soekarno.
Sukarno was stripped of his presidential title by Indonesia's provisional parliament on March 12, 1967 and he remained under house arrest until his death at age 69 in Jakarta in 1970.
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 Sukarno - MSN Encarta
Sukarno, however, saw The Netherlands’ possession of the territory as an unacceptable reminder of colonialism, and by the late 1950s he was mounting an increasingly strident campaign to have the territory returned to Indonesia.
Sukarno was formally deposed in favor of Suharto in 1968.
Sukarno’s eldest daughter Megawati Sukarnoputri became a symbol of popular resistance in the pro-democracy movement that ultimately led to Suharto’s resignation in 1998.
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 Sukarno - MSN Encarta
Sukarno was born in the city of Surabaya in eastern Java.
Sukarno had been increasingly involved in nationalist politics since his teens, when he had boarded in the house of H. Tjokroaminoto, a leading nationalist politician.
Although Sukarno was an important symbol of the national struggle against the Dutch, he soon lost political ground to domestic rivals.
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 AsiaSource: Asia Biography - a resource of the Asia Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Sukarno (1901-1970), first president of the Republic of Indonesia, a position he held from 17 August 1945, the day on which he proclaimed Indonesia's independence, until his formal deposition on 27 March 1968.
Born in Surabaya, the son of a Javanese school-teacher and a Balinese mother, Sukarno was educated in his father's school in Mojokerto (East Java), the Dutch elementary school at Mojokerto, and the Dutch secondary school (HBS) in Surabaya.
Sukarno was a complex figure, combining elements of Javanese tradition and modernity in his leadership.
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 BookRags: Sukarno Biography
Sukarno was born on June 6, 1901, in Surabaya, East Java, of a Javanese father and Balinese mother.
Sukarno's belief that a misunderstanding had brought about the conflict between Islam and communism was first presented in 1926 and continued into the sixties.
Sukarno's significance in the establishment of the Republic of Indonesia is tremendous.
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 Encyclopedia
Sukarno was arrested by the Dutch in 1929 for his political activities but was released two years later.
In foreign policy Sukarno was suspicious of the U.S. and other Western powers, and he assumed a role as leader of the emerging nations against colonial and “neocolonial” powers.
Sukarno’s eldest daughter, Megawati Sukarnoputri, was elected to parliament in 1987 as a candidate of the Indonesian Democratic party and became its leader in 1993.
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 Ensiklopedia :: encyclopedia : Sukarno   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Sukarno (6 Jun 1901 - 21 Jun 1970) adalah Presiden Indonesia yang pertama (dari 1945 ke 1967).
Sukarno juga dikenali sebagai Ahmed Sukarno atau Soekarno.
Apabila Sukarno berada di peringkat sekolah menengah beliau bertemu dengan Tjokroaminoto, seorang teman yang akan menjadi nasionalis Indonesia pada masa akan datang.
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 Indonesia - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Indonesia
Sukarno's nationalization programme and close relations with communist states alarmed the USA, especially when he challenged the two giant US oil companies Stanvac and Caltex.
Sukarno's policies were reversed, and Suharto set about stabilizing a chaotic economy with the aid of a group of US economists nicknamed ‘The Berkeley Mafia’.
Lavish incentives were introduced to encourage new foreign investment, assets nationalized by Sukarno were restored to their former colonial owners, and generous compensation paid for losses suffered by foreign companies as a result of Sukarno's policies.
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 TIMEasia.com | TIME 100: Sukarno | 8/23/99-8/30/99
Sukarno also called this the "century of intervention," a time when the great powers could interfere at will in the affairs of smaller countries.
Sukarno was President for two decades, but he wielded real power only in the last six years of his rule--the period of Guided Democracy.
Sukarno died in 1970, a man whose dreams of a free and peaceful Indonesia had been hijacked by a violent and stifling military rule.
www.time.com /time/asia/asia/magazine/1999/990823/sukarno1.html   (1262 words)

  
 Independence for Indonesia
Sukarno was the son of a he son of a Javanese schoolteacher and his Balinese wife.
The declaration was broadcast by shortwave radio, and expecting trouble, Indonesians flocked to Sukarno's residence to defend it from assault.
Sukarno tried to win Allied acceptance of Indonesian independence by issuing a manifesto, on November 1, offering to protect Dutch lives and capital and to honor prewar debts of the colony.
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 Movie Review: The Year of Living Dangerously   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
With the elimination of the Communist party the balance of power was drastically altered in the army’s favor, and Sukarno’s position was furthered weakened when it was alleged that he and major communist leaders had played a major role in the attempted coup.
On March 11, 1966 Sukarno was obliged to delegate power to the army commander General Suharto who reversed most of Sukarno’s domestic and foreign policies in exchange for western military and economic support.
Because of the threat of civil war Sukarno was not brought to trial, but was placed under house arrest, banned from politics and died under house arrest in 1970.
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 Sukarno. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
In 1962, Sukarno ordered sporadic raids on Dutch New Guinea, intensifying a conflict that resulted in UN intervention; his action, however, brought Dutch New Guinea under Indonesian administration in May, 1963.
Sukarno, who proclaimed himself president for life in 1963, increased his country’s ties to Communist China in the late 1950s and 60s and admitted increasing numbers of Communists and pro-Communists to his government.
In 1966, Sukarno was stripped of his title of president for life.
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 Sukarno - SgWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In March 1960 Sukarno dissolved the elected Assembly and replaced it with an appointed Assembly, and in August he broke off diplomatic relations with the Netherlands over Dutch New Guinea (West Papua.) After West Papua decalred itself independent in December of 1961, Sukarno ordered raids to West Irian (Dutch New Guinea).
Sukarno's grip on power was weakened in the crisis, and eventually, pro-Western Lieutenant-General Suharto forced Sukarno to hand over executive powers on March 11, 1966.
There are also claims that Sukarno was toppled by the United States because of his perceived Communism and ties to China and the Soviet Union.
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 Indonesia Sukarno and the Nationalist Movement - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current ...
The son of a lower priyayi schoolteacher and a Balinese mother, Sukarno associated with leaders of the Indies Party and Sarekat Islam in his youth and was especially close to Cokroaminoto until his divorce from Cokroaminoto's daughter in 1922.
Mutual self-help in diverse contexts became a centerpiece of Sukarno's ideology after independence and was not abandoned by his successor, Suharto, when the latter established his New Order regime in 1966.
Sukarno was arrested in December 1929 and put on trial for sedition in 1930.
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 Indonesia hears Sukarno name again   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
But two decades after the death of Sukarno, who helped lead Indonesia to independence in 1945, it still commands such reverence that the government is deeply afraid of what his daughter could do.
She became the first of Sukarno's children to enter politics, beginning with her 1987 election as a legislator.
Sukarno was put under in house arrest, where he died in 1970.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/96/06/22/indonesia-sukarno.2-0.html   (553 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Sukarno
Sukarno's government initially refused to form a national army, for fear of antagonizing the Allied forces and their doubt in whether they will be able to form an adequate military apparatus.
Sukarno's guards claimed that they were trying to stop a CIA backed military coup which was planned to remove Sukarno from power on "Army Day", the 10th of October.
Sukarno's grip on power was weakened in the crisis, and eventually, pro-Western Lieutenant-General Suharto forced Sukarno to hand over executive powers on March 11, 1966 in a Presidential Order called Supersemar (Surat Perintah Sebelas Maret -- The March 11 Order) in which Sukarno yielded all executive powers to Suharto in order to restore peace.
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 Indonesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Indonesia is a unitary state, and for most of its post-independence history, was first governed by Sukarno, leader of the national independence struggle, and then under controversial and authoritarian Suharto.
Sukarno and his colleagues collaborated with the Japanese occupiers.
Sukarno, and the leader of PDI-P, which was the winner of 1999 election.
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 Sukarno   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Sukarno led the newly-formed nation of Indonesia since it became independent from the Dutch at the end of the Second World War.
Sukarno carefully granted concessions to the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) and the Indonesian Army, thus creating a balance of power.
Sukarno continued to lead Indonesia until 1965 when his government was successfully overthrown by the Communists.
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 What's in the News: Activities: Where on Earth
Sukarno was arrested in 1929 and put on trial by the Dutch for subversion.
Sukarno declared that Indonesia was an independent country.
In 1965, an apparent coup against Sukarno was put down by one of his most trusted army generals, Mohamed Suharto.
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 Term Paper on Sukarno
That ensured that Sukarno’s name was erased from the public record for many years by the chroniclers of the man who replaced him.
“But no Indonesian would ever forget that it was Sukarno who played the key role in winning freedom from the Dutch becoming in 1945, the first president of the newly independent republic.” Sukarno was born on the 6th of June 1901 in the city of Surabaya in Eastern Java.
Sukarno’s powers as nationalist thinker, fiery orator and global strategist left a permanent mark, not just on his own country, but on the world.
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 CNN.com - Indonesia celebrates Sukarno's anniversary - June 6, 2001
Megawati makes frequent visits to her father's grave, literally channeling the spirit of Sukarno so as to become a vessel for the implementation of his dreams and aspirations.
Sukarno mismanaged the country so effectively that he left the door open for a military takeover by a little known general named Suharto.
Suharto, who had none of Sukarno's charisma but all of his political wile, came to power in bloodshed and ruled for 33 years of political repression.
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 Sukarno - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
SUKARNO [Sukarno], 1901-70, Indonesian statesman, first president of Indonesia.
Constructing a China metaphor: Sukarno's perception of the PRC and Indonesia's political transformation.
Sukarno legacy in doubt as presidency slips from Megawati
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