THE INDONESIAN SITUATION (REPORT #28 - - AS OF 4:00 P.M. EDT)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00472A001500040028-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2006
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: October 12, 1965
• Content Type: IM

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of.Current. Intelligence
12 October 1965
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
The Indonesian Situation
(Repor 28 -- s of . . EDT)
1. The army and its civilian supporters have continued
to take anti-Communist action despite President Sukarno's
return to Djakarta.
2. The Minister of Education has temporarily closed
private educational institutes that "directly or indirectly
supported" the 30 September movement. The Djakarta radio
announcement lists nine schools. Two of them are well-
known Communist training institutes; the other seven are
specialized Communist indoctrination centers. The Educa-
tion Ministry has also "frozen" two Communist-dominated
student organizations. .
3. The leftist head of Radio Indonesia was replaced
on 11 October. The new acting director, who will have
army advisers, is an unknown to the US Embassy.
4. A Moslem mob of some 200 persons on 12 October
attacked the Djakarta homes of Lukman and Njoto, the first
and second deputy chairmen of the Communist Party. They
dragged possessions outside and burned them. The homes
were unoccupied.
5. The American Consulate in Medan, North Sumatra,
reports that an army house to house search is underway.
Following a large prayer meeting which ended the mourning
period for the murdered generals, mobs burned down the
provincial headquarters of several Communist front organiza-
tions. The Sumatran Army Interregional Command has given
the military. police a list.of army officers who are
believed to be secret members of the Communist Party with
orders that they be closely watched.
State Dept. review(s) completed.
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6. The army is now reported willing to settle on
General Adjie, the regional commander in West Java, as
the new army commander to succeed the late General Yani.
According to an earlier report, it planned to insist on
General Suharto.
3. Sukarno is reported to have called Moslem leaders
before him a few days ago?and-berated them for attacks on
the Communists. This could account for the about-face of
the executive board of the large Moslem party, Nahdatul
Ulama (NU). The NU's call on 8 October for no further
demonstrations by Moslems, however, does not appear to
have had any restraining effect. In Medan, the TAU is
still maintaining a strong anti-Communist line.
9. After a meeting with Information Minister Achmadi
and First Deputy Prime Minister'Subandrio on 12 October,
Sukarno issued instructions that the people be given more
"balanced" information. Subandrio, commenting on the
president's instructions, stated that many reports being
published are exaggerated, Sukarno order that telecom-
munications with foreign countries be "resumed, improved,
and perfected."
10. The Communists remain on the defensive. The
Central Committee has put out no pronouncement since its
statement of 5 October claiming that it was not implicated
in the 30 September movement. Chairman Aidit's whereabouts
remain unknwon, although the army continues to believe he
is in Central Java, most likely in the city of Solo. The
Indonesian press reports that the Communist mayor of
Surabaya has disappeared. The leftist governor of Medan
is also reported to have fled. Radio Bandung in West
Java reports that an entire Communist branch committee
has withdrawn from the party and expressed loyalty to
Sukarno.
11. An article in the Indonesian Herald, a mouth-
piece of Subandrio, is a possx e # o-3?Tow-up of reports
that Sukarno will sacrifice Aidit and encourage a "new"
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Communist Party. The general aim of the article is to
draw a distinct ion . between "extreme Communism," which is
un-Indonesian, and a "decent Com,aunism9.' which could take
a rightful place in Sukarno's nationalist-religious-
Communist concept of government. A new periodical has
even give this possible party a namo--"Communi_st Associ.a.-
tion,"
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