INDONESIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01443R000200320011-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 1998
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: June 17, 1954
• Content Type: BRIEF

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Party.
Was arrested I May on orders Col. Kawilarang, pro-
of III Territory In West Java (which
douesiaaa capital, Djakarta).
aiding Comunist insurgents
It mater Iva Kaeu*as
ray still continues.
f parliament, is
lose friend tiaiater Iva,
ice based on interrogation of surrendered
a documents seized in Sidik's hose.
best of Co:>a munist guerrillas, "Bamboo Spears"
Kawilarang said to be co-operating with socialist
party leaders in building strongest case poiblo
Plans also being laid for arrest of more Iva
supporters.
Iv reportedly has made strenuous efforts obtain
old
1. Direct pressure on tavilarang has apparently
failed.
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reportedly resorting to more devious sea
to achieve objectives.
say he is
y attacks
by recru
Establishing a
a Perbepsi.).
utually planning military *ffor
karta area.
twas
dicapped by fact east officers
in vital went Java region are lays
probable,, however, that
between Iva and ranking arm
dent Sulker
b invariably supportedIea,
Camunist-dosinatod veterans
group manned
who heretofore
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IT President Sukarno, who is the strongest single unifyin
force in Indonesia, has been progressively isolating hiss
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self from nearly all political groups arce
Party ( I and its leftist supporters,
A. Sukarno believes that success
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democracy in
Indonesia "as he cWiceives it," to dependent
upon his continuance in office which he cannot
lize it the 1I should lose the elections
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presently scheduled for 1655.
Sukarno has condoned and even
encouraged PPI efforts to purge opposition office
holders.
1. Also reported that I had laid careful plans
ctions through its control of
electoral and administrative machinery.
2. One eifestation of this control reflected
eseent of party symbols to
be used in ballots which showed the hammer and
:k^e an the symbol of the Communist Party (I I)_-
supports the govt---and "those who belong
, .,
political parties
Theo* preparations also include a shakedown of
foreign fires
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silted in "weakening of president
against Communist Infiltrators."
more moderate in criticizing Communists
out of the way to receive fellow travelers
from abroad
D. Vice president Ratta and a few prominent military
aders are only balancing forces remaining.
Z. Recent developments
Indicate that
extreme leftist Defense sinister--hand picked by
Sukarno--is making strenuous efforts to undermine
officers who oppose the regime, particularly Col.
ang, commander of III Territory in lest Java
h includes Djakarta.
nod by military arrest of pro--communist
of defense minister on charges of collaboratia
Communist insurgents.
strenuous efforts to obta;
release thus far have failed.
probable, however
nister and -hostile" officers
by i u ter ven t i ?r,
iably supported the former.
gle bet
o who has
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