GUERRILLA ACTIVITIES IN JAVA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002600560004-2
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 25, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Indonesia
CONFIDENTIA
SUBJECT Guerrilla Activities in Java
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Achmad Wtiiranata Kusuma, the son of the V ali Negara of Pasundan and a guerrilla
leader,,, quit Solo for West Java on 19 December 1948 when the second police
action began. He is one of the best equipped guerrilla leaders, and one of the
cleverest, He is equipped with walkie-talkie radio sets. various automatic
weapon; et cetera most of which have been taken from Dutch units after the
police action began, For instance, an the morning of 19 December 1948 one of
his units captured a five truck convoy lo4ded with small arms and ammunition,,
2,? The Siliwangi Division is over-stocked with weapons..
3, On 1 March 1949, a large group of Tentera Nasional Indonesia (TNI) vas seen
near Tjiwidej in the Bandung area,
4, The T-jiandjur and Sukabumi areas in Vilest Priangan were still unsettled as of
1 March l949., Roaming guerrillas occasionally placed landmines on the highwalr
between Tjibadak and :Sukabumi and sniped at passing vehicles,
5 The TNI guerrillas, numbering about 150 men armed with automatic weaponsp
w4*bo derailed a train near Mas .ng were the same guerrillas who raided Tjitjurug.
Parungkuda and Tjibadak on 23 Februaryo This group belongs to the former
Bogor regiment, not to the Tirtajasa brigade of Bantam.
An explosion took place in the center of Batavia on the night of 5 March 1949.
Meester Cornelis was guarded by an infantry battalion under the command of
Major M. C,, Daalen Wetters. on 5 March 1949, The major's address wras: Gen-}
eral Staallaan C-2. Meester Cornelis, opposite the bureau of the police, VII
East Java
8~ As of 25 February 1949, well=armed TNI units, varying in size front fifty men
to a company of two hundred, had occupied strategic points along the highway
connecting Surabaya and Malang,
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TWI positions were located in the following places on 25 February 1949:
Keboansikep*
edatidukuh, near 'Surabaya
bzurber. porong*, near Lawang
Ta=angred jo
Suwojewo
akerad jo
Sersgon
A imbing , near Malang
i0~ The Dutch were using the "X" Brigade of the "All Division against these posit.
tons, and since frontal attacks would prove too costly, the Dutch were unable
to counter=attack,,
El. The TNI was reinforced by Tan Malaka's fighting forces of the Partai Rakjat
D elata and the remnants of the Tentera Merah0
12,, The guerrillas were attacking;. trucks and convoys, on or about 25 February 1949"
One train was derailed, killing 250 people,
1'3. On 25 February, 14alang was isolated from the remainder of :mot Java.
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