POLICE SHAKEDOWN IN MEDAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008600610011-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: September 28, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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On Perdeka Day, 17 August 1951
a Member of the M
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all of the houses in two of the blocks of Djalan Suma.tera which did not
display an I'ndoneaian flap. The policeman demanded to known why there was
no flag and pretended to jot down names in a small book. The residents of
these houses, all of whom were Chinese, paid from R 50 to R 60 not to have
their names recorded. There have been no further developments, none of
these have been summoned by the police.
Comment. There have been reports of the police ordering drivers of
to d..splay flags on Merdeke Day. There appeared to be fewer 5 --star
flags displayed on this holiday in lubdan than on previous similar occasions
since the recognition of Communist China by Indonesia,.
Deournent No,
No Ch
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O Declassified,
Class. Changed
To: TS S D
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Aptly: ND 70-2
CLASSIFICATION
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