COMMUNIST ACTIVITY AND CHINESE COMMUNIST INFLUENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004100270004-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: January 4, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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l.a The nety ^ommunist oentc~x~ around Sur~akarta a:~y develop sxrto the arses of great-
est Camr~una.st influence, The present strength of the Communists in Suretcarta
is tk~: r~wsult of the par?Z;ial vacuum for~~~ed there after ?bhe x:~.c'xiun revolt
which allar~c~d Co~e~.uni.ets oscaping frays the TI.I to settle on the outskirts of
the tosvaa zvh~sre they are nozv tell established,
~n Cor~muniwa; o,ctivity in the Jog~a'~ar?~a and Surakarta area is nazv believed to
be directed by tr~~a separate groups ~.n thc3 Partai iComunis Indor~esi,a {PI{13 4
~~ '.Chars is almost no visible Comr.-unist activity xn the totivn of Jogjakarta ffior
i there r?:~ueh soc:i.a1 aativity~ The influence of Chinese Coranunists is
izzcres.sing in the Chinese aomriunitY~? therea ~?~ a. recant rieetinu; of the Chung
Siua Chw1C; ~i many ;:sembers der,~nded reaa~tiitian of .ri1o Tae.-tong, but ih uvas
fin.aliy deo:e.ded that the Sultan. o old be aonsealted on this
25X1 X sro.tter aM.d hi a advios follasved, thmt Chinese cammunities ~,
P:iidd.le Java anti possibly in ether aree,u ? a Indonesia will false the same.
c.tta.tuda the Sultan dies in this matter because they fear ham,
?~, The Sul?L-ran of Jogjakarta feels that the reoo~i.tion of Cox~~-unist China, by
Tir:l.taix~ and after laxge pot~Jers ti~aill result in the local Chinese. being more
srraC;ant and openly Communist, Fie also feels thmt Indonesia must tralce into
cansi~.deration tha attitude of the tTx~ted Stahes before recogn.~L~ing Comzrcu~aist
China
~n Tixe. Sul?can ovaes r.~uah of his success to has ini'luenae among, Ind:;n:-:sisn you'~3i~
1Lfter the reoccupation of Jogjr~arta, subsequent to the seeand military
action, the Sultan relied almost exoluuively on youth groups to r.~.intain latia
and. order, Iie has selected the most outstanding of these groups raho a~
loyal to him to aontrol Jal~rta and other dran.ger spats~'~ '
25X1 A - Comment, Daaii Ja~h,~a~ _ o by the Sultan m3,litax y governor of
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letter of 76 October '1978 from the
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