COMMUNIST DEVELOPMENT IN INDONESIA

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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 14, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Because of the rigorous measures taken by the Republik Indonesia Serikat (RIS)
a.7ainst participants in the 1:adiun revolt in 1948 and the intervening period
during the second police action in December 1948, many leading figures in
the left wing parties dispersed temporarily curtailing their activities.
For this reason there wore few major developments in the Partai Komunis
Indonesia (PKI), Front Demokrat Rakjat (FUR), I'ortai R,urba, and related
organizations during the last months of 1949. TAN Ling Djio, Abdul Madjid,
":ikana*, Sakirman** and other Communist leaders are reported still in the
mountainous areas around Kedu and Solo?
At the and of 1949 an important leader of the PKI Politburo is reported
to have announced that an "alliance" had been made by the PKI, FDR and Par-
tai Murba, all of which have a smiler objective, the establishment of a
socialist community in Indonesia.
3~ To achieve their goal the three parties proposed to use the following
procedures:
a. Parliamentary methods in seeking key government positions.,
b., Underground action.
4, The program of parliamentary procedure already has resulted in the accep-
tance of the PKI, FDR and Partai Nurba in the Komite Nasional Indonesia
Pusat (KJIP) and in the Representative Assembly of the new Re!,ublik Indo-
nesia Serikat
5. The underground movement is most noticeable now in the infiltration Into
the lower labor classes, civilian government offices, and the army,
6. The labor class, which is centered in the Jogjakarta and Solo areas, is
inactive at present, although heavily influenced by the Communists. In
the Jogjakarta-Solo districts, land is considered to be private property
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of the Sultan or Susuhunan, most of it now being rented to large companies
for use as sugar or tobacco estates. The PKI and FDR are attempting to
obtain a change in the status of land ownership through propaganda and
agitation.
7., In the military, the Sudiarto Brigade in the Semarang area is definitely
influenced by the FDR and Pesindo groups. The Republican Military Police
is aware of this condition. Furthermore, in the Jogjakarta area, about
90 percent of the employees of the military government, the Kommando Onder-
district 1J:ilitair and the Kommando District Militair (KODM and KDM), are
members of the FDR,
8. After the transfer of sovereignty, the Dewan Partai of the Partai Murba
held a conference 14-16 January 1950 in Jogjakarta to draw up a political
program. The Dewan Pimpinan of AKOMMA also held a conference in Jogjakarta
from 5-7 February 1950, At these meetings it is believed the two parties
made efforts to reorganize and bring about closer cooperation between their
leaders,
9. Labor leaders of the AKOMA and the former Lssjkar Rakjet (followers of
Chairu? Saleh) are now very active in Djakarta, particularly in the Tend-
jungpriok area, where almost the entire population consists of dock workers
living in poor economic conditions. The propaganda line used by labor
agitators there is based on a comparison of the inferior living conditions
of harbor workers, who have a base salary of from f 50 to f 100 a month,
with the higher standards of the RIS government employees, who live on a
much better social level,
10, The Partai Komunis Indonesia Merah, under Mohammed Djoni, has moved to
Djakarta and will probably become active very shortly among the fishermen
along the Java and Sumitra coasts. Djoni has already established the
Sarekat Pelajaran Indonesia (Indonesian Seafarers' Union) with the assis-
tance of Darwis Djamin, former Angkstan Laut Republik Indonesia (ALRI)
Commander in Tegal, knovm for his connections with smurglers from Singa-
pore and Malaya. Lljoni also has contact with Isak Mahdi***, Indonesian
representative in Bangkok. Mahdi is highly dangerous to the RIS government
because of his position there.
At present, the Communist groups in Indonesia are believed to be relatively
weak bocause their leadership has not yet united. The PKI-Alimin faction
appears to be in opposition to the Politburo under TAN Ling Djie and Abdul
Madjid. The Communist-influenced labor movement also has two conflicting
factions, the Portal Buruh Indonesia under Umi Sardjono and another Partai
Buruh Indonesia under Professor Abidin,
12. Chairul Saleh of the Tentera Eakjat and Vahidin Nasution, his dividion com.-
mandor, were arrested in mid-February 1950. This leaves only one outstand-
ing Communist army commander at liberty, namely, Muhidin Nasution,,
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* Corrnnent, , December 1949, names ''`ikana as one
o the leaders of the Front Demokrat Rakjat (FDR) in the Klaten area.
25X1A - Deoomber 1949, reported th':t Wikana was in Lawejan and that
he is often seen in Jogjakarta and Sawangan and is known to travel
about considerably,
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Comment, January 1950, lists Sakirman as Deputy
Chairman of the Partai Buruh Indonesia (PBI) and a member of the Re-
publik Indonesia uerikat Representative Assembly.
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Comments -*, 8 January 1950, says that Mahdi is
a leftist and has played with the Communists in the past. The source
for this report feels ho would be an easy target for the Soviets.
December 1949., names Mahdi as a Pe.rtai Murba member.
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