1. SHIPPING AND TRADE IN INDONESIA 2. AVAILABLE EXPORTS IN SUMATRA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002200660005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 7, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

FORM NO.51-4A
SEPT. 1948
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENC~I GbNCY REPORT 1
INFORMATION IRE'O CD NO.
COUNTRY
Indonesia [~
SUBJECT
1.
Shipping and Trade in Indo. esia
PLACE
2.
Available Exports in Suma
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1. The Dutch have secretly formed a shipping monopoly'nrlvg--;_
fol owing shipping companies:, Koninglijke Paketvaart Maatschappij P:),
Java China Pacific Line (JCP4 Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland and
Rotterdamsche Lloyd. Any &j wishing to ship in Indonesia must pay
a royalty of 45 percent to the pool.
The East Indonesians' effort to set up their own company, the Usaha Kita
Bersarma, with their own ship, the 11ANIPI, has resulted in the ?'A:"1IPI
hheinF kept at anchor in Makassar.
3. !?otor boats trying to go to Portuguese Timor are subjected to rigorous
search at Makassar on the return journey to Batavia or Singapore.
4. Certain harbors in Sumatra have been opened by the Dutch for barter trade.
This activity is permitted by the Dutch provided no produce of alien-owned
plantations is smuggled out. Harbors opened for barter trade are:
a. Tandjungkarang, Southern Sumatra, which is regularly visited by
a.250-ton motor vessel, ANNIE, from Pasar Ikan, Batavia. The
managing proprietor of the ship is GOUWd Keng An, Kongsi Besar No. 67,
Batavia.
b. Pakanbaru, east coast of Sumatra, visited fortnightly by the
motorboat, HONG THONG.
c. iengat, Djambi area, and Djambi proper, visited respectively by the
motorbbattHONG SOON and HONG TAT. Both belong to the Ho Hong Steamship
Company, Ltd., 65 Chulia Street, Singapore.
5. In Benkulen there are over 5,000 tons of rubber, 1,000 tons of rattan (obtained
from Mukomuko and other remote areas of the west coast of Sumatra), 1,000 tons
of pepper, and 150 kilograms of gold ready for s#ipment.
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6.t4e4Mohammed Hatta and Dr. Sarono do not agree on the exporting of pepper,
rattan, and rubber from the Lampong districts. Dr. Sarono feels that
these should not be exported, but Hatta has remained firm in his decision
to export them.
7. An unknown amount of rubber has been dumped in Djambi, most of which datum
ftbzlien-owned plantations. This rubber is guarded by one of the battalions
of the brigade of the Tentera Nasional Indonesia which has been assigned to
f,otl $ti n areas $Mong Sumatra's east coast. In I1iddle
Sumatra dumps of rubber at Sibolga, TaOaZaj1dnuli remain fintact in spite
of the recent political disturbances in this area.
8. Dutch patrol boats, operating from Tandjegpinang on Bintan Island
are observing closely any movement in the :trait of Berhala and '.:-s ?it_;
in Amphitrite Bay as far as Tandjungbalai in the Karimun Islands.
1rnugglers are handicapped by the well-;quipped Dutch patrol boats.
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