THE INDONESIAN SITUATION (REPORT # 43 -- AS OF 4:00 P.M. EDT)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2006
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: October 27, 1965
• Content Type: IM

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Current Intelligence
27 October-1965
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
The Indonesian Situation
(Report # 43 -- As of P, M, EDT)
1. In the face of the mounting army propaganda campaign
against him, Foreign Minister Subandrio was forced yesterday
to retract publically his charge that elements of the
Djakarta press were financed by CIA. The Armyts refusal to
allow Subandrio to attend the Afro-Asian Conference was re-
vealed publically today when it was announced that Deputy
Foreign Minister Suwito is leading the Indonesian delega-
tion to the conference,
2, Armed Communist activity in central Java is ins
creasing, The most ambitious Communist action has been an
unsuccessful attack on police headquarters in the central
Javanese cities of Jogjakarta, Solo and Bojolali on 25
October. Today, the Central Java military command proclaimed
a "state of war" throughout the province, Troops from an
infantry brigade, earlier moved to Sumatra for confrontation
duties, are being returned to Central Java,
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5, The South Sumatran military command has banned
the activities of the PKI and its mass affiliate,.
Eleven of Indonesia's seventeen military areas have now
taken such action,
6. The US Embassy in Djakarta has a report that
Marshal Dani, who "temporarily" stepped down from his
duties as air force commander and left the country on a
purchasing mission, has unexpectedly returned to Indonesia
under escort, and is now in army hands in Djakarta. Earlier,
rumors have circulated that the army did not allow Dani to
depart at all but placed him under detention.
7. President Sukarno is continuing to oppose the
army's anti-Communist campaign. According to Information
Minister Achmadi, Sukarno told a meeting of leaders of
seven Indonesian political parties yesterday that a switch
to the right "would be a calamity even greater than the
30 September incident."
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