Soekarno

Sukarnos amours

________ were almost as renowned as his oratory.

Sukarno

________ pressured the Japanese to grant Indonesia its independence and, on June 1, 1945, made the most famous of many celebrated speeches.

Regional insurrections

________ broke out in Sumatra and Sulawesi in 1958.

clique of military conspirators

A(n) ________ calling itself the September 30th Movement kidnapped and killed six top army generals, seized a few key urban points, and proclaimed a new revolutionary regime.

Suharto

________ decreed a quick and quiet funeral.

Indonesian economy

The ________ foundered while Sukarno encouraged the wildest of extravagances.

Indonesian politics

________ became increasingly frenzied, with Sukarno himself engaged in devious maneuvers that made stabilization impossible.

Tjokroaminoto

________ treated him as a cherished foster son and protégé, financed his further education, and eventually married him off at age 20 to his own 16- year- old daughter, Siti Utari.

Sukarno

Known to his childhood playmates as Djago (Cock, Champion) for his looks, spirits, and prowess, he was as an adult best known as Bung Karno (bung,"brother "or "comrade), "the revolutionary hero and architect of merdeka ("independence) ________ spent long periods of his childhood with his grandparents in the village of Tulungagung, where he was exposed to the animism and mysticism of serene rural Java.

Sukarno

________ was the only son of a poor Javanese schoolteacher, Raden Sukemi Sosrodihardjo, and his Balinese wife, Ida Njoman Rai.

Sukarno

________ died at the age of 69 of a chronic kidney ailment and numerous complications.

Sukarno

Indonesian statesman who obtained the independence of Indonesia from the Netherlands in 1949 and served as president until ousted by Suharto in a coup d'etat