Good Times with Sukarno
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Natsir and Sukarno had a very close relationship at the start of the independence movement. Despite their personal differences of opinion, national interests represented a shared priority.
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“Bung Natsir, we used to be involved in polemics, but let’s not go over those things again now.”
“Of course not. How could we when we are facing the Dutch now? Some other time.”
THIS warm and friendly conversation between two top statesmen took place in 1946, when the capital of the Indonesian Republic was still in Yogyakarta. Sukarno was its President, while Mohammad Natsir was Information Minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Su
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