THE INDONESIAN SITUATION (REPORT #41 - AS OF 4:00 P.M. EDT)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00472A001500040041-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2006
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: October 25, 1965
• Content Type: IM

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Current Intelligence
25 October 1965
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
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The Indonesian Situation
(Report #41 - As of 4:00 P.M. EDT)
1. The army is moving aggressively against Foreign Minister
Subandrio, who has been attempting to
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army pressure in the case of Subandrio, hey is reporte
dly arranging
to send three of the army's most politically active generals out
of the country with the "exiled" General Sukendro.
3. General Nasution, in a speech over Radio Djakarta
yesterday, for the first time publically listed action which the
army has pressed Sukarno to take. The most outstanding of these
were the proscription of the Communist Party (PKI) and the
"regulation" of Foreign. Minister Subandrio's Central Intelligence
Bureau. The US Embassy in Djakarta considers this "a heartening 25X1
sign of a strengthing army stand."
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2. The actual removal of Subandrio would represent a major
victory for the army, Although Sukarno me be u
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ce a ubandrio, said to be under virtual detention, must
State Dept. review(s) completed.
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5. The East Java military command has suspended the PKI
and its affiliates. PKI activities have now been outlawed in
all of Java and the Celebes and several other provinces. As
other military commanders join this bandwagon, the presidential
ban of the party urged by the army will become of greater
psychological than material importance.
7. The Indonesian national parliament has temporarily
suspended all PKI representatives.
8. Peking has taken a harder line in complaining to
Djakarta over the continued harassment of Chinese personnel by
the Indonesian Armed Forces. The Chinese, however, are still
moving cautiously and probably retain hopes that pro-Chinese
elements will eventually emerge victorious over the armed forces
in the Indonesian power-struggle.
9. On 25 October Peking announced that the Chinese embassy
in Djakarta had sent a note to the Indonesian Foreign Ministry
protesting the alleged search of Chinese experts who are building
a cotton textile mill. Unlike the Chinese protest note of
18 October, the most recent note went beyond general warnings of
possible "serious consequences" to assert that the Chinese experts
would discontinue work on the cotton mill until given assurances
that such incidents would not reoccur. Although it referred to
the work stoppage as "temporary" in an apparent effort to preserve
Peking"s flexibility; the note implied that further Chinese re-
taliation might follow.
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