THE SITUATION IN INDONESIA (REPORT #64 - AS OF 4:00 P.M. EST)

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 63
• Publication Date: November 17, 1965
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of.Current Intelligence
17 November.1965
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
The Situation in Indonesia
(Report - As of :00 EST)
1. An army-organized rally of anti-Communist trade union
members in Djakarta today again called on Sukarno to ban the
PKI and to purge the cabinet and other bodies of "counter-
revolutionary" elements.
2. The army clearly plans to retain control of Indonesian
information media. An army spokesman again announced that the
Djakarta military commander still held emergency powers, in-
cluding regulation of the press, although the state of war was
lifted in the capital last week. The army has also indicated
that it will retain effective control of the Indonesian radio,
although it was formally handed back to its civilian director
last week. In addition, Information Minister Achmadi stated
today that he would delay implementation of recent regulations
limiting anti-Communist parties to one newspaper each.
3. At a meeting of the military chiefs of staff on
Tuesday--the first since the 1 October insurrection--the ouster
of Foreign Minister Subandrio and Air Force Chief Dani apparently
was discussed. The press later announced that a recommendation
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4. A number of additional members of parliament were
suspended for complicity in the insurrection today. In itself
this move means little, but it is another indication that army
pressure for a purge of PKI sympathizers is continuing.
5. Sukarno is reported to have been spending long hours
in consultation with close political associates in the past
several days and may be preparing to resume the offensive
shortly? A cabinet member has told the US Embassy that the
army and Sukarno have reached a "complete deadlock" on the
question of banning the PKI. The source said that he foresaw no 25X1
early resolution of the present struggle for power.
7, The Embassy now believes that the trade ban on goods to
Communist China may still be in effect, despite Subandrio's
statement last week that it had been terminated.
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