CHINESE COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN INDONESIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002100610002-3
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 16, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 13, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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L The Communist organization,Min Sheng Sze, Aaflggabeear ho. 79, Batavia,
is still tolerated by the Dutch Provisional Government on the strength
of advice from ANG Tjin They, adviser for Chinese affairs to the Dutch
Resident Commissioner, Zwager, and TRIO Thiam Tjong, adviser for Chinese
affairs to the Lieuterc..nt Governor General (also head of the Pereatoean
Tionghoa (Chinese Feaeraliet Union), Batavia). The Mm bheng Sae has
decided to post a commission in every Chinese quarter throughout Java
Comment. reported Mm bheng Sze as a local central
Chinese Communist body in disguise supported by Life Press, Batavia,
which publishes the Communist daily and fortnightly, ohs rluo Pao;. Min
Sheng Sze has enlisted and trained secretly about oneThousan i news
middle school children who are members of the Chinese Comrauiiist Youth
Corps,)
2> YU You-Boon, managing director of the Liang Yu Book Company and adviser
to the central council, of the Lin Sheng Sze,, keeps a watch on Chinese
"patriots" and members of the Kuomintang for the purpose of terrorizing
them and kidnapping them on their return to China. went.
- reported that YU supplies books for the children trained by the
Min Sheng Sze. This him as a bookseller of the Kiang You
Book Company; however, further information indicates that LIANG YU is the
correct spelling.)
3. YO Fie Ching, disguised as a merchant trading under the name of TA Chung
in the Gondangdia market, is a local Communist leader.
4. CHANG Ming An, a teacher in the Chinese high school at Pantjoran, Java,
disseminates Communist propaganda to the students together with LOA Chan
Hui, a graduate of an American university who specialized in economics,.: ~5X1X
Comment. A CHANG Ming An a
o ger for the Chinese newspaper, bin Po, who had close contacts
with Pass representative, George Afrin, when he was in Java, as well as having
other Soviet connections.)
!;., TJONG Joe Kioen, sub-editor of the Chinese daily, Sen Huo Pao, acts as an
espionage agent in anggabesar (Prins*nlaan) where ,m S eng Sze has its
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a special Cammunzet daisy in Ba via, still tolerated by the Dutch,and
25X1A2g published by Life Press. WANG Koei-t joe and ONG Kie-njan were listed as
managing director and editor respectiveV
.,Iwith TJONG Joe Kioen as sub-
editor.)
6. The Ta Taung Song Huo Sze at Kerkstraat, Meester Cornelis, acts as center
of Chinese Communist activities. Two important members of this organiz-
ation we HIOE Fat Sioe and TJONG Fa Koen, rice merchants.
7, Active Communists in the local-born Chinese community are LIE Kian K3.z,
Chairman-of the Sin Ming Lao Rung Hui (SMIKH), and Dr. KHO Tjok King, Pin-
toe Besi No. :'S, Batavia Centrwu, whose job it is to coordinate all Commun-
ist activities in this area. To accomplish this RHO must m;tintain contact
with L A U X King Hoo, commissary of Mohamed Joesoef I s Partai Komunis Indonesia
(PYT), SIAUY Giok Tjhan of the PKI, and Tony ion, commandant of the Inter-
national Brigade of Solo, through Tamzil and Haden A. Asmaoon,
25X1A6a ,.._..._ Comment. - reported LIE Kian Kim as kee;dng contact with
Moewalladi, Chairman of the reorganized branch of Sarekat Oenmoem Bosroeh
25X1A2g Seloeroeh Indonesia (SOBSI). RHO Tjok Sing is listed in as re-
maining with Sjahrir when the Partai Sosialis Indonesia PSI split and
g Sjahrir formed the new PSI. "U41 King Ho as a leader of
Chinese Communists in East Java, especially ij~tlangg.)
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