SITUATION IN INDONESIA (AS OF 0700 EDT)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00472A001500040002-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2006
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 1, 1965
• Content Type: IM

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Current Intelligence
1 October 1965
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
Situation in Indonesia
(as o
The full extent of the purge of anti-
Communist army leaders now underway in Indonesia
is still unclear. Thus far action appears only
to have been taken in Djakarta. Over 20 army
officers, including Defense Minister General Nasution
and Army Commander General Yani, are reported under
arrest at the hands of the "30 September Movement"--
the name taken by the group which has assumed power
under a paramount Indonesia. Revolution Council.
All homes of top army leaders are under heavy guard.
Djakarta, heavily patrolled by military forces,
is presently calm; there have been no reports of
violence. However, fighting could erupt in out-
lying areas in connection with the announced intention
by the now ruling Revolution Council in Djakarta
to establish a network of provincial Revolutionary
Councils.
Communiques issued by the Revolution Council
charge that counter-revolutionary military leaders,
banded together as a "council of generals;" had
been readying a rightist coup for 5 October,
Armed Forces Day.. The generals are alleged to have
been working with CIA agents to overthrow Sukarno.
Whether Sukarno instigated or at least consented
to the purges, or whether he is merely going along
with the actions taken by leftist elements is not
yet clear. There has been no direct word from
Sukarno, although various communiques by the
State Dept. review(s) completed.
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Revolution Council report that he is safe and
well and "under protection." Some ambiguity exists
between an initial announcement that Sukarno remains
as "head of state" and a later communique naming
the Revolution Council as the "supreme authority
in the country."
In-any event, the Indonesian cabinet has
been dissolved according to a 1 October decree;
the present ministers are charged with continuing
to discharge their responsibilities until a, new
council of ministers is formed by the Revolution
Council. It has also been announced that Indonesia's
foreign policy would not be changed, but would
remain "free, active, and anti-neocolonialist"
Dr. Subandrio, leftist leaning lot Deputy
Prime Minister and' Foreign Minister, would ap-
pear to be involved in the present
apparently acting in collusion with power play,
Indonesian
Communist (PKI) leaders.
Embassy in D? .A late SITREP from the
Djakarta, notes that calm reigns at
Communist headquarters in the capital and that
PKI leaders a ear com la.cent about events. II
Air Force Commander Omar Mani has publicly
embraced the aims
f
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and has ordered air force
alert to "crush any attempt eto~endangerbthen the
revolution." Dani and Navy Commander Ma.rtadinata,
are listed as members of the Revolution Council
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which is headed by Lt,
hnder of de Colonel Untung, battalion
presidential guard.
Suggestive of the revolutionary flavor of the
new ruling groups is an announced decision that all
military members of the Revolution Council holding
a rank higher than Lt. Colonel will be reduced to
that level to conform with Untung's status.
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