1. INDONESIAN ACTION AGAINST SMUGGLING 2. CHINESE POPULATION ON THE PERAK COAST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009200100008-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: November 6, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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C~~f~Ti~~`~ Indonesia
SUi3~lECT '~.. In~oneisian Acti.o~n Agaixast Smuggling
~. Chinese Po~+taletion oa the Perak Coast
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l., The Indonesian i~.~vy is planning to set up a rad~.o tsommunication s~rstem
in the R,iotaa Archipelago a~ on I~atuna Island. Tts impose 3.s to check
smug~Iing between French Indochina, the T'hilippines, end Chirp intca
3t,tra sad Jays. .The ~~ believes thst eisms are being smug~?led mom
Indochina to the Ftiouw Archipelago onward to Samatra, Java, and the
western coast of Ill..
'~. An Tndones3an x~ave.l official stated that B~?gansiapiapi is the center ai'
Catanm~.ist nes~tration 3n ~miatra. This of~'icial, farmerlg ~.ptain of
a vatrol boat se.i~ i ng between 4"umatra and biel.aya, also told of Isis recer~~a
encounter with a Chinese ju~? The Indonesian patrol boat chral.Isn~rl
the junk, wh~eh opened fire. 'fie capture of the junk revealed that the
Ch i nee ? ~routl~ aboard were armed end had with them R 4 miZ~. ion and a
considerabl~s amount of opiurc. ,the Ch~.nese
Co~rmn~nist, send 4oung Chinese to Indonesia supplied. with opium, which
they sell to obtain rr-oney' for operational pua?~sosea.
The Indonesian Gaverrnnent has tstnpnrar3.Zr halt+ad rub'h~r smuggling fro~?
Irxionesis to Mal.~a by the imposition of heia~r taxes ai3 the smu.g~~.ers.
,6., There is so!ne sr?n~g;~l3ng of goods Prom Penang and occasional acts of
piracyr slang the Perak coast of Malaya. The Chinese populations oi?
Port U'eZd and other towns along this coast are pro-l~uomintang?
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