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In 1965 the ADC staff in Indonesia had been removed from
their posts in Bogor (J. Price Gittinger and Ralph Allee) and
Medan (David Penny) as the result of “persistent anti-Western
pressures”, but by late 1966 the ADC (like the Ford Founda-
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tion and Asia Foundation) were being urged by USAID to re-
sume their presence in Indonesia. ADC had sought the reac-
tions of various groups in IPB, in the government and in the
military and reported that IPB’s new rector was enthusiastic,
and,

“most IPB staff were favourable, appreciating the Council’s
support for research projects during Indonesia’s ‘difficult pe-
riod’ [though] some criticism was made to former foreign ‘ad-
visor’ types who did no research, no teaching, but merely
handed out gratuitous advice on what the Indonesian ought
to do to imitate America”. 6
Already in 1966 the Ford Foundation’s representative in In-
donesia was discussing the possibility of ADC’s assuming res-
ponsibility for their support to the SAE, in place of the ISS. The
Ford Foundation was “most anxious for ADC to take over the
programme in place of the Netherlands Institute”. The ADC
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had already for some years been supporting various training
and research activities at IPB.

5 ADC Board of Trustees Agenda, 11 January 1967 (Rockefeller Archive
Centre [RAC] , ADC IV 3 B 1.11, Box 5 Folder 32).
6 ADC Board of Trustees Agenda, 11 January 1967 (RAC, ADC IV 3 B
1.11, Box 5 Folder 32). The critical remarks possibly refers to staff
of the University of Kentucky who had been assigned to IPB in a
much-criticised project.
7 Agricultural Development Council, Meeting of the Board of Trust-
ees, 14 June 1967 (Rockefeller Archive Centre, ADC IV 3 B 1.11).

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