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A CENTURY OF PARLIAMENTARY LIFE
IN INDONESIA

Various efforts made by the government suc-
ceeded in thwarting the rebels’ attempts to at-
tract sympathy from neighboring countries.
The Djuanda These rebels’ actions ended as the Minister of

Declaration began Foreign Affairs released an announcement on
June 26, 1958. The statement informed the fall of
when the Djuanda Manado into the hands of the Indonesian Armed

Cabinet held a meeting Forces, which ended the rebellion in February
1958. The government also stated that since the
on December 13, 1959 to beginning, the uprising — which attempted to at-

discuss the crisis in the tract the sympathy of other countries under the
pretext of an anti-communist movement — never
country. The discussion received the people’s support.

narrowed down to Apart from peaceful means, military efforts

the Dutch’s show of through the TNI’s Rapid Action Operation were

strength through their also taken to stop the PRRI-Permesta rebellion
in mid-1958. The involvement of political elites in
warships in the Java PRRI-Permesta tarnished the prestige of the re-
Sea and the waters of lated political parties.

East Indonesia. Amid efforts to resolve the upheavals in the re-

gion and the struggle for the liberation of West
Irian, the Djuanda Cabinet or the Karya Cabinet’s
achievements were recognized even by the in-
ternational community. This achievement was
echoed by the Djuanda Declaration, which later
became the beginning of the recognition of Indo-
nesia as an archipelagic country.

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