The organizer took the theme, reflecting on the current geopolitical situation, that colonialism persists, particularly in ...

There were two assaults on the independent republic that Sukarno had proclaimed in August 1945 and lots of people died, especially on the side of the Indonesian Republic. Finally in 1949, as a result ...

While largely overshadowed by the bigger, more explosive battle for Viet Nam, the smouldering war in Malaysia has also intensified in recent months. Along the border in Borneo, the Federation’s ...

Nimble-Footed. Sukarno smoothly plays the 250,000-man army off against the other major prop of his regime, Indonesia’s 2,000,000-member Communist Party, third largest in the world after those of ...

Sukarno, the son of a Javanese school teacher of aristocratic family, was a young architecture graduate, part of a very thin layer of educated petty-bourgeois.

Sukarno was born in eastern Java in 1901 to a Javanese Muslim father and a Balinese Hindu mother. His name came, according to Sukarno in his autobiography, from Karna, ...

Although the plot is largely a love story, it illustrates the poverty of Indonesia, the callousness of Sukarno and the ruthlessness of the Suharto takeover, in which about 500,000 people--many of ...

Sukarno was overthrown in 1967, and died three years later. Dewi took exile in Paris, where she soon emerged as the toast of the international jet set.

Ratna Sari Dewi Sukarno has become a well-known Japanese media figure in recent years and has just raised some $90,000 for victims of terrorist attacks in the United States.