"Democracy with opposition," complained Indonesia's President Sukarno recently, "is not right for us. It is suitable for Westerners, but not for Orientals." Whether Sukarno & Co. had been practicing Western-style political democracy in their chaos-and revolt-torn young republic for the past seven years was at least a debatable point. But whatever they had tried, it was definitely not working.
When well-meaning but bumbling Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo set up his Nationalist-Moslem coalition government a year ago, after the country's first general elections, many of his countrymen (the majority of whom are illiterate) felt that they were at last within sight of...
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