By Ariel Ahram
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Many regions were essentially outside Jakarta’s control. Civilian political parties representing a wide range of ethnic and regional factions vied for the support of the military’s various fractious wings. In 1956 Sukarno made a bid to end the infighting and stamp out military mutinies by suspending parliament and establishing Guided Democracy. Yet Sukarno’s charismatic and mercurial leadership only deepened the divisions within the society he sought to unite. 47 The revolution reinforced cleavages between Javanese and the various outer islanders, between Muslims and Christians, between orthodox and heterodox Muslims, and between the military and civilian politicians.
44 Second, regimes and states are often inextricably linked. No ruler can be completely oblivious to the disposition of the state’s institutional apparatus. Although the appropriation of the entirety of state territory is rare, losing control of territory to a neighboring state or domestic subversive or suffering diminishment and subjugation in the international system can substantially destabilize the elite itself. 45 Third, and most importantly, empirical evidence belies the notion that all LDSs face an equally pacific and permissive international environment.
65 Cooperation among active and retired soldiers and organized crime was part of this routine. In the 1960s and 1970s, for instance, the military-sponsored youth group Pemuda Pancisila (PP), originally an association of revolutionary war veterans, was known to control movie theaters and casinos throughout Java, its gangs patrolling city streets after curfew on the pretext of catching criminals and counterrevolutionaries. In the early 1970s, the military outlawed street gangs and dissolved PP, but the group reconstituted in the 1980s with the government’s blessing, integrating criminals and ex-convicts under the guise of a military-sponsored youth and sporting association.