Suharto Confirmed In Key Indonesian Post
(N.Z.P.A. Reuter—Copyright) DJAKARTA, July 25. The Army strongman, Lieutenant-General Suharto, is expected to be named First Minister in the new Indonesian Cabinet to be announced tonight by President Sukarno.
The triumvirate now at the core of the six-man ruling presidium— General Suharto; the Foreign Minister, Mr Adam Malik; and the Economics Minister, Sultan Hamengku Buwono —all will retain office.
But two others—the Deputy Premier, Dr. Johannes Liemena, and the Minister for Political Institutions, Dr. Ruslan Abdulgani, who have been under strong criticism from the powerful Students’ Action Front as opportunists and Sukarno yes-men are expected to be dropped in the reshuffle.
ter with four Deputy First Ministers and 20 Ministers. The new Deputy First Ministers were named as: Sultan Hamengku Buwono, to retain his post in charge of economic affairs. Mr Adam Malik, Foreign Minister. Mr Idham Chalid, chairman of the powerful Moslem Nahdatul Ulama Party, at present Deputy Prime Minister in charge of state institutions. Mr Sanusi Hardjadinata, the former Ambassador to the United Arab Republic, one-time Minister of Home Affairs, and a prominent member of the Indonesian Nationalist Party—the biggest party in the country. Final Details President Sukarno yesterday met Army and political leaders for four hours at his summer palace at Bogor and later announced that the new Cabinet would be anti-imperi-alist and anti-Colonialist. During the meeting the President and General Suharto decided the final details of the Cabinet’s composition. Indonesia’s highest policymaking body, the People’s Consultative Congress, had empowered the two leaders to choose a new Cabinet by August 17, the country’s national day. The meeting also discussed foreign policy, including contacts now. continuing to end the confrontation of Malaysia. Economic problems and unrest in East and Central Java aggravated by Communist and pro-Communist agitators were among home affairs discussed.
President Sukarno at present also holds the title of Prime Minister and there was no explanation why the term has been dropped in the new Cabinet.
The Cabinet is expected to be composed of a First Minis-
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31121, 26 July 1966, Page 17
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