THE INDONESIAN SITUATION (REPORT #61 -- AS OF 4:00 PM EST)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00472A001500040060-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 26, 2006
• Sequence Number: 60
• Publication Date: November 14, 1965
• Content Type: IM

Approved Fo*&blease - 001500040060-6
OCI No. 2920/65
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Current Intelligence
14 November 1965
The Indonesian Situation
(Report #61 -- As of 4:00 PM EST)
1. Despite President Sukarno's apparently
strengthening position, anti-Communist action is con-
tinuing throughout Indonesia.
2. Mass slayings of PKI members and supporters
continue to be reported.
Aidit in Central Java in the vicinity of Merapi volcano,
the principal area of hardcore Communist resistance.
The deputy PKI chairmen, Lukman and Njoto,are reportedly
at the palace under Sukarno's protection and nearly all
of the remaining top party leadership is reported under
army arrest.
3. Recent reports continue to place PKI chairman
3,400 Communists were killed in one area of East Java.
4. Defense Minister General Nasution, in a speech
made in Djakarta yesterday, bitterly attacked the PKI.
Nasution declared that the party should be banned not
because Indonesia is "anti-Communist" but because the
PKI had proved to be a "traitor to the state." On the
same day 1000 women demonstrated in Djakarta demanding
the permanent dissolution of the PKI women's auxiliary
Gerwani. The demonstrators were said to be led by the
wife of Foreign Minister Subandrio, who is apparently
attempting to come in, at least part of the way, off his
pro-Communist limb.
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