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Sukarno was a brilliant orator and a man who took syncretism to its fullest Sukarno was an Indonesian statesman, orator, revolutionary and nationalist. He served as the first president of Indonesia ...

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:If Indonesias founding president Sukarno once taught mathematics at the Ksatrian Instituut, an elementary school known in the mid-1920s for its brazenness and nationalistic ...

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 ...

Indonesia's President Sukarno has threatened the new Federation of Malaysia, insulted Britain and brought his own country very close to disaster. Both Indonesia and the Philippines refuse to recognize ...

Russian-supplied MIG jet fighters zoomed low over Djkarta last week as Indonesia’s military might assembled for Armed Forces Day. In the harbor below steamed Indonesia’s newest warship, the ...

Indonesia is celebrating 80 years of independence from the Dutch. “Sukarno, my late father, was its founding father,” says Kartika Soekarno, my godchild whose son is now studying in an American ...