Soekarno

Soekarno

Sukarno, also spelled ________, (born June 6, 1901, Surabaja / [now Surabaya],/Java, Dutch East Indies- died June 21, 1970, Jakarta, Indonesia), leader of the Indonesian independence movement and Indonesias first president (1949- 66), who suppressed the countrys original parliamentary system in favour of an authoritarian "Guided Democracy "and who attempted to balance the Communists against the army leaders.

Sukarno

________ narrowly escaped recurrent attempts at assassination, the first in 1957.

Japanese

During World War II the ________ made Sukarno their chief adviser and propagandist and their recruiter for labourers, soldiers, and prostitutes.

Sukarno

________ pressured the Japanese to grant Indonesia its independence and, on June 1, 1945, made the most famous of many celebrated speeches.

Sukarno

As a Muslim, ________ was entitled to four wives, so he took several more wives in the following decades.

Sukarno

________ spent long periods of his childhood with his grandparents in the village of Tulungagung, where he was exposed to the animism and mysticism of serene rural Java.

Sukarno

________ was the only son of a poor Javanese schoolteacher, Raden Sukemi Sosrodihardjo, and his Balinese wife, Ida Njoman Rai.

Sukarno

________ died at the age of 69 of a chronic kidney ailment and numerous complications.