Growing Up

How Indonesia Is

lO show its rapid progress in the . ways of “Western Civilisation,” the new Government of the new public of Indonesia announced in me that it had an estimated de : of four thousand millions of apiahs, which is equal to about 60,000,000 Australian. (Five Indo ssian Rupiahs equal one Austra ,n £—one Rupiah equals 4/- Aust.) However, the Indonesian Govern mt does not seem depressed by the

mounting evidence of economic and political dislocation. Twenty Gov ernment servants have been sent to Australia for training. A team of eight men has been sent to the Olympic Games. A special company of 45 Balinese singers and dancers has departed on a tour of Europe and America.

An interesting announcement in June is that four Asiatic countries —lndia, Pakistan, Burma and In donesia —the four which were given their independence in 1946 by the British Socialist Government— are now sending teams of technicians

to Japan for training.

Three Melbourne public servants, have been appointed to a technical 1 commission of the “International Civil Aviation Organisation” at £3,000 per annum each, to work in Indonesia and ‘ advise and instruct Indonesian officials;” and it is an nounced that “another eight civil, aviation technical advisers are sought at equivalent salaries. ’