Guess What? Bernard Kalb<\/p>\n
Any foreigner who uses Bung (brother) to address an Indonesian
\nis likely to have spent a great deal of time in Indonesia in the
\n1950s, when the term was widely used by government officials and
\nfellow freedom fighters to refer to one another.<\/p>\n
Bernard Kalb, who runs the CNN's weekly program Reliable
\nSources, is one American who uses Bung to address any Indonesian
\nmale he comes across. Kalb remembers affectionately the time he
\nworked as New York Times correspondent in Indonesia in the 1950s.<\/p>\n
\"I got arrested for several hours,\" he recalled during a
\nrecent encounter in Hong Kong. The military never gave any reason
\nfor the arrest but he suspected it had to do with his report of
\nthe secret arrival of the first Soviet MiG jet to Indonesia.<\/p>\n
His article never reached New York because it was stopped by
\nthe telegraphic office in Jakarta. His release came a few hours
\nlater when president Sukarno learned of his arrest, he said.<\/p>\n
Kalb, who interviewed \"Bung Karno\" several times during his
\nposting in Jakarta, said he hoped to come to Jakarta soon. \"I
\nwould really love to interview Bung Soebandrio,\" he said of
\nSukarno's deputy prime minister and foreign minister. Soebandrio
\nwas jailed after Sukarno's downfall in 1966, and was only freed
\nafter then president Soeharto granted clemency in 1995. He has
\nnot given a press interview since his release.<\/p>\n
\"Bung Bandrio was a good friend of mine,\" Kalb said. (emb)<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/guess-what-bernard-kalb-1447893297", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }