THE INDONESIAN SITUATION (REPORT #34 - AS OF 4:00 P.M. EDT)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00472A001500040034-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2006
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: October 18, 1965
• Content Type: IM

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Current Intelligence
18 October.1965
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
The Indonesian Situation
(Report - .M, EDT)
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1, The commander of the Greater Djakarta military
area has banned temporarily all activities of the Indonesian
Communist Party (PKI), its youth, women, and peasant
fronts, and four Communist student organizations in his
jurisdiction, An earlier army decree had ordered all regional
authorities to prohibit the activities of all political and
mass organizations "clearly involved" in the 30 September
movement, without citing specific groups, This may be the
first direct step in the political elimination. of the PKI,
2, Radio Djakarta has announced a meeting of all
regional civil and military leaders to be held on 23 October,
The leaders will gather in Djakarta to bear an "instruction"
from President Sukarno. Sukarno will no doubt command them..
to restore order in their regions and quell further anti-
Communist demonstrations,
3. The Indonesian government has not yet commented on
Peking's charge that Indonesian troops in Djakarta broke into
and searched the Communist Chinese commercial counselor's
office last week end, The Chinese protest note delivered
to the Indonesian embassy in Peking charged that "the
Indonesian government has all along been condoning the
increasingly unruly anti-Chinese activities," The note
warned of serious consequences if the "anti-Chinese wave
starting in Indonesia" is not checked., The US Embassy in
Djakarta has received-an unconfirmed report that the Chinese
embassy is now evacuating its dependents,
State Dept. review completed
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4. 1 IMoslem groups
in Medan ana ot tSumatrities are now burning
the homes and other property of pro-Communist Chinese in
the area. Despite the reported anti-Communist basis of
this action, the Moslem attacks are probably as much
motivated by general anti-Chinese feeling,
ccor ing to press repor s rom
Djakarta, slogans appeared in the city yesterday, gaming,
for the first time, Subandrio as responsible along with
Communist leaders for the coup attempt.
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