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Some Australian soldiers captured by the Japanese are forced
to sweep the streets of Gjakarta. The Indonesians welcomed the men of the imperial
army of the nation of the rising Sun as liberators before realizing that their
domination was heavy as much as that of the Dutch.
An image of Sukarno in 1949 (Radio Times Hulton Picture
Library)
General Suharto in 1966 (Publifoto)
The two faces of Indonesia. On the left a fisherman of Bali
who entirely survives with what he gets with his own strengths. (Sirman/DIMT)
On the right a panoramic photo of the capital city Gjakarta with trafficked avenues
and skyscrapers. The struggle between poverty and wealth has a fundamental role
in a nation that possesses vast oil resources and other raw materials necessary
to the heavy industry of the western nations.