ARMED COMMUNIST GUERILLAS IN WEST JAVA
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December 15, 2016
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May 9, 2001
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Publication Date:
October 1, 1948
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O:'OOUNTRY Netherlands East Indies
P DISTR. 1 October 1948
't.JB,JECT Armed Communist Guerillas in Jest Java /,:' \`1IO. OF PAGES 1
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This document is he ehV re
q-r - ; N@ OF ENCLS. (1A LIBRARY
CONFlOEN .IAL in a~. cu cc. w;th A ED BLOW)
letter of 1s Octotber 173 from the
Director of Central lntefl.gonce to V30J PLEMENT TO
Archivist of the United States. RE ORT NO.
The Partai Repoebliek Indonesia (PART) has joined with the Partai Komunis
Indonesia (PKI) according to documents received from these organizations by
Indonesians. The purpose of this action is to form 11ce'.1s" and to take
"mass action" in carrying out subversive actions alains4. the Dutch and in
setting up a Communist regime in socialist disguise.
2 Q~ Tan ',,!alaka wrote a brochure in 191.6 in which he stated .hat "PARI'means
"Proletaris Aslia Repoebliek "ntemationaal'r, and "Asti" means Asia plus
Australia.
30 Infiltration is made not only t!r?ough fighting bodies, tilt also by means of
government services, and even theasjoemi has proven tc be a. good ground
for the growth of Communism.
It is also stated that the Barisan Bamboe Roontjing (Barboo Spear Corps),
which includes the Kesatoehan Pemberontak Rakjat '.berba (Comrmon People's
Rebel Unit), the Pasoendan Adjag Merah (Pasoendan's Red ",olf Corps) and the
Matjan Tjitaroem (Tjitaroem Tiger Corps), has formed ce1I's whiz-,h are now
supported by the 3arisan Keamanan Oemmat Islam (Islam Cornverts l Security Corps).
The i3arisan Bamboe Roentjing is under the command"of the ?adangese medical
student, Soetan Akbar. The Corrrmznists are cooperating,, t',erefort?e, with
Mohaamnedans in guerilla warfare in West Java.
This cooperation is the result of a compromise made at T'i.amis between Communists
and Mohammedans on the pretext of arriving at a "Bai'at"(fr,iendly) agreement.
A number of officers of the Barisan Bamboe Roentj ing" sit in the headquarters
of the Ilizbr ellahs and Sabilillahs (t arkas Pasoendan IIizboe:tlah.Sabilillah).
6. Territories under the Communist "reign of terror" are Koen.cagan in Cheribon,
Krawang and Tjikampek in rural Batavia, Bandoeng, Tjiamis, 1'asikoalaya, Siradangm
iaya and Tjiandjoer in the Priangan.
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