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v SUBJECT: When Is a Cabinet NASAXOM? -/IJ,1. / .:z. .:;z:N.boll/ REF A-859 dated March 13, 1964 r...e
''i·..., _,,· ' SUJOIA.RY / Although PKI numbers in the Dwikora Cabinet are small, the additional presence of energetic friends and tile absence of determined eneaies makes co.. unist influence -large. If the present cabinet cannot be called Nasakom, it can nevertheless be considered to have been partiall7 "'xasakoaized. H This process aay·continue,. ' unobtrusively until a truJ.1 Masakoa cabinet is achieved without fanfare. Some wishful thinkers have interpreted recent Presidential remarks CODC8.rn.1Dg the "Kasakom Spirit" as a de-emphasis Of the •organizational aspects• of the Nasakom doctrine in favor of the "psychological." It would appear, however, that the President wls simply noting that his ultimate aim is not to bring the three Indonesian political forces into a working coalition but to fuse them into a new, homogeneous force. Judging from recent events, the nature of this n loy would be deterllined largely by the communist ingredient. ij)~ER~ ~~b~ • * • * • • • • • • • • • • • ~
The period approaching the August 17 Indonesian National Day i• traditionally filled with rwnors of the impending formation of a Masako• cabinet in which communists would theoretically be given a role equal in importance to their "nationalist" and "religious" colleagues.. Al though it would not seem worthwhile to recount the many Basakoa formulas that are being bruited about Djakarta (there L are aS· ll&JIY. purported plans as there are political analysts), it .is _J perhaps an. -.,ppropriate moment to comment on the nature
. Tiu~ .ae&JC.o. Seed in t··' Pre~en.t C&biaet. JUn.i•ter ot Interior . -~...... _.,,·-~--- Suaarno idurlaa a ncent tour in Suma'~::ra l'f>Mrked that he heard JDUCh talk ... ,. . fr. •.. \ ~' , ,. , '1'_ ·, '• . o:t the need~ .Hasakoaiae the cabinet. but every day in .Djakarta he ran , across. a aui11,~r~al.~lleague from ~acb of the NaaAkom factions. If it , ·is in~r:tect~,'t(, ·.<=onsid•r the present cabittet a lfasakoa cabinet, as Suaa1"DO iJll)IU.ed·, 'it ~uld ·c&rtal,nly seea re&UiUc to view 1t as having undergone at least"partial M11eakomJ.zation. Ocly th..l"ee members o:f the present ~-binet are .Jieabers ot the Indonesian ~"1Wlist Party (PKI) and none hold '.pc_;rtfolios~ ;;It would be extremely naive. however. to take this :figure as ar accurate .indication of commuDist etren.,ith in the cabinet. Three a;tnist•rs,. (Oel TJ.oe Tat, Sutomo anti Anau.aanto) two ot wh9m hold portfolios, btdoag to the· crx»to-co•1.uust Partindo Party and must be considered as ., ' ·t '· respoosi•• to,PQ. instructions as ~h~ avCirage PU aeaber. Subtle distinctions are al.so :Ntiu11"9d tO stlparate tiu-e. othe1· JU.lli•ters from the co1111Unists; th•Y. are tll•.-. ~·t~t~i: Pl(I Secretacy Gene.z:a.l SuracJaaan,. Deputy Chail'Jl&D o:f t!r.J.-lndoneaii.n. -.&oe Ooanttee Setiadi R<>kliOprodjo, and the National Front \ , ~i '. , , ' • ' , r, _';" , ··'1 '•: . • elw~~.Sudibjo... <. 1'111Uly 1 there are e1fh.t o:r aine Jl!iJli•ters who through geui_._.:l..df!Olod'Ca.l s1a1lariti•s or pure opportunism have for an extended pert~ ·. fQu01red, policies closely pariUl•l to and often coincident with .... are lirst Deputy Prime lfinister coiu ~•:t· ~itci••· '_la this latter grou1:- 1 sub.-W'S.rio. aad Poree Minister Ollar Dani. :. .,Air , .; '
,,~ ... ,, . Soae optim1at1c Indonesians point out that even'when the PEI and Parl~i~~ a~ combined, only one-tenth ot the huge Dwikora cabinet can be · cl;:s-'itfted 08IUllUDi•t •.. The addition of :t.ilow travelers would raise the pre: .. lOllllWU.~t- :faction to only one-sixth. This sort ot reasoning is open . ' . to ••:.rious questio~. The bulk of the huge Indonesian cabinet may be
considered.to be political neuters who can be led virtually in any directton1 and the propor~ion ot determined anti-com1JWnists is certainly no greater ~!:. the prQ.. ~ats. It is misleading in any case to play with nuabers. l"h• cabinet;•~~i' aeets as a body and, even if it were to do so, it is iighly uaJ;·~~i1·~... ~t''. it would resort to the "liberal democratic" Mthod ~VER "':t,;~~Jority.j~~~: ;•.·:reach a decision. ~ .. ".'.'.'\~ ),,.< .:.. . ::~, · .. :'':.'.';~~1':,::'·.'.--~';.,:2·:<·' ~~.,,~' ./" - . . Tiler• .. •f>PMJ':;. to be two important criteria for gauging political '1ii: 11Ct1a in,;;tJae':°*'binet: (l) the nwaber of portfolios which bring J10ney I,,.,,. ··•·· ...... " ~-~ P8r".l1, eot~•l'a pel"Jli t significant 1nfil tration into key govenmut ' ""; '[,'. . '. '\ '· , :·• . ~ ' . •r' , . . .. •en::.cea, _.., ~2): tb9''4-.ree of participation in the cabinet Presidium,
: Jhidl wik•t1 ...... :''.•Jn.a.et as a whole haa ~ "1)0l"tant policy-uking functions • . T ·:.: . / •, .•:>:g,!: .,'··,i·~,'.,,';p',:'•~"lt' / '1 ' ,,·! ,'"·j· '', ,1, / ...... ·. I _. U•iDC theHNo -· / / 5-57-6 :><· The nn.. 7 v.--...... "1.ntng portfolio held by Partindo ...ber Amunanto .., p:rov• t:q be __ a 11<>ne1-aaaker. The Blectrtcity and Bnergy portfolio held by Setiadi -lekaoprodjo llight prove a lesser sourceo:f profit and the Public IrriptloQ·portfolio held by Suracbman preaen.ts some iu.terestlng prospect• tor.lettiat log rolling in the villages. Partindo aembera Aatraw{aata ··,·~- aiutoao have already shown eoae ab11i ty to put the IU.niatriea .- of Juat1oe .Ad-i.abor: to leftist uae although tb.e patronage they caa. bestow ''{°, .. ·:' . .. ~ -· is aoaftlµat,'1111J.ted., and in the latter caae aoaet1.. a superfluous as the. labor llOl"ea•at· 1•.·alr•dy largely in colllRUliat hand• •. Sudibjo haa an exoellent.weaPo~-1n the Jlational :Front wh1Ch he lla• oft-. put at OOlllJllUDiat disposal in. the past ud which may prove even more valuable in the future if plans to expand the ·lfational Pront1 s Mohinery ~d activities at the village level m.tertau.:.ce. ' ' * !•.~,,~ ~.~ .' 1'. ~ ,'.'I
While 1 tla4'( ~i118ta have no tull-ttae aa••t in the Pres1d1WI itself, they bavetn.~ a.n'attached to it. There are clear indications t.bat PU Yictt Chat~ 1'Jot0, and, Pa.rtindo Chairman Oei Tjoe Tat participate 'actively_s,i,.~.P.t10Ui'J)oi1cy-.aking. Oei 18 said to hu'e written much of the l're.81 ..ii•• ·iee.4~ ft,tional Day addi-ess, certainly among the two or three aQst 111Por:taii.. a'1.i.eat~~- in lndOnesi~ policy.: Oei alao aeeu to have ., .. ueed"hi's i~·~i:di. p0s:ltion to get his hands into Subandrio'• intelligence · ·. organiz~\1•; ·,.;•• taise reports and •captured documents" bak.ap much of . Indonesian -~tx>licii.,, .(.llnbassy '• A-997). . Njoto is credtied by many with writinc llaur.of .the poliqy guide-lines which the President laid down to _the People~s.Pi-ov1's1onal Consult•ti•e Assembly (Bnbassy's A-'88). •\'
' I {. ' '' ·\, ' ' ' ~ ' . ·.In short •.·· the. COllUllUnists when combined With their closest allies appear to hav• at' least aa important a Position in the cabinet as an:y other pol1t;lcal 'paity, Although they have yet to get hold of the really key . iull1str1es,•hich.·a:re mostly in the hands of the military or apolitical . ,~~ecmuci~,~.lf::~;-~. :,'::;"_,"/ ~ ; " . . '
·_, 0 _.,'.:f>'A )fasak~.;~bi~•t. The President and the PKI have ude it clear that ·':they do .not·-COtlaid•l-''the.present cabinet to merit the Masakoa label. It .'.. ' '. •" '·' ··.· '·'l' , .... _.... " ' ' :.-Ou;td .appeat-'.di:tf*cUl. t, :., however, to find common agreement among the ladcuaejj.aa ~•ct~olat 'in•,l•ed on what degree of communist participation ifould\trana:tofti:':th• Dwikora Cabinet into a Nasakom. Cabinet. It seema -J.ik._iy' t~t'· Y,.. :'PU would settle for. equal representation •1th the other. lfUAko' cA.ante 'aa,.:0At7 four portfolios can be identified with the KU and .• 11 .. ~ ';~"! ..,~ 1l,J~,/~\~\ ,~i...:. . ~. • . ' '-,_l1 j ., -'_i,,, p ~~:,'.t!.'~·. ;,:,.~,!'I ~ seven with representa1p_20_ 5_57 _6, .. nationaliat group--, they would assign their puppe~ rar~~na~.\ten portfolios) and with the religious group (seven portfolios), this nwnerical ratio alone would be meaningless considering the proliferation of unimportant portfolios now in the cabinet.
The coaaunists undoubtedly envision a Masak.om oabinet as including a coaJ.l!UDi•t Deputy Prime Minister and perhaps a PKI or at least a crypto communist in one of the key ministries now in non-party hands, such as Interior, Higher Bducation, Basic Education, or Information. The communists probably do not expect to expand their ministerial strength in the police and defense sector beyond the support they now receive from Qnar Dani. Instead they will concentrate on placing their ••n in "p011cy-.aking bodies" below the ministerial level and on expanding the military establishment to include,coDUIUJlist cadres and syiapathizers in a "fifth ar11ed force." These efforts, however, constitute a campaign apart fro• the Nasakomization of the cabinet, and, judging from the publicity now given th••• efforts, may even have a higher priority • • ' ' Apart fl'Oll the cbanges it will invoke in the power •tl'WCture, the aere announcement of a Hasakom cabinet will have an !Jiportant psychologioal effect, wb.iob Jl\lst be taken into, account in choosing the ..,.ent and manner of the annouaceaent. The bestowal of the name "Hasakom" on a cabinet will for many Indon.. ians signal the nation's arrival at a political waterahed. Comauni.sts should be boof!lted b1 the vista. of the downhil.1 road ahead while many of their opponents will be demoralized. On th9' otber band,, , if announced preaaturely, a Nasakom cabinet might trigger a reaction from anti-communists (although probab~y not from the military) which could lead to soae t9J11POrary unrest. It is conceivable that the term will not be forlllally applied to a cabinet until the communists one by one aad over a period of time have moved into positions of authority. If this is the case, Nasakollization can be visualized not as one big step but as a gradual process, which has long beep underway.
Ultiaatelz a New Nasako~ Alioy. President Sukarno•s recent speeches in which he playfully suggested that the words of the revolutionary march "'Masakom Uhited" (Nasakom Ber~atu) should be changed to "Nasakom, My Spirit" (Hasak.om DJiwaku).ha•e been hopefully interpreted by some MosleJll and military 1utw•papers' to portend a' de-emphasis of the "mechanical aspects" of ' # ~ " Nasakom in ~T~~ of the psycholo.ical aspects • They pretend to see in these remarks ~esidential approval of their thesis that Nasakom is principally a readiness on the part of each individual to cooperate with the t~~ ..ih Political currents in Indonesia and not a formula to unite physieally these three forces in the cabinet and other governaeat . ,,;\,:_,:··,,,,. ,' . r . • orcan•· ·11No the organi1p_2D- 5-57-6~cts of Nasakom. The recent stress he baa put on the spiritual aspects simply takes note of a parallel and complementary campaign to oast the nationalist and religious elements in the Masa.k:om · formula into a more "revolutionary, progressive" mold. Sukarno, in fact, reprimanded these wishful thinkers in a recent •Peech at the PNI anniversary celebrationsJ when he said that many of the people sprouting the phrase "Nasaltoa ,spirit~ were in tact ,.false Naaakoaist•." Sukarno's ultiDlate aim, of course, is not to bind the three Indonesian political forces together in a worklnc coalition but to fuse them into a new homogeneous force. Judging from $ulcarno's statements and actions during the past year, the nature of this new alloy would be deterJDined largely by the PKI.ingredient.
For the Ambassador:
~£Bdward B. llaf ters ·Counselor of EmbaHy ..• 1,. tor Political Affairs t , .... , .. .. lt'J';. .. r- •. .• .(I) . ;~,/' -· ... ~; ··~ •• . DETERIORATING ECONOMY ENCOURAGING RUMORS CABINET CHANGES AND POSSIBLE SUKARNO MAY RESORT SUCH MOVE CREATE IMPRESSION ATTEMPTING REMEDY SITUATION. IN JAN 9 CONVERSATION WITH AMS, GEN NASUTION LEFT CLEAR IMPRESSION SUKARNO HAS NOT YET MADE UP MIND ON NASAKOM CABINET AND WEIGHING RELATIVE VALUES CABINET COMPOSED ECONOMIC EXPERTS AGAINST THAT FEATURING POLITICIANS. NASUTION SPOKE ABOUT COMMUNIST PRESSURES FOR NASAKOM CABINET, FR~NKLY REVEALED WHILE MILITARY STILL OPPOSED, WAS NOT IN POSIT I ON PREVENT SU~< ARNO FROM SUCH MOVE IF HE DECIDED TO ~£R DO SO; ADDED SUBANDR I 0 EFFORTS GAIN DJUANDA r S FIRST ~ ,,.,~. ~ MIN !STER JOB ADDITIONAL COMPL !CAT ION. TWO DAYS EARLIER ··"'1>". GEN JANI TOLD AMB HE DID NOT BELIEVE NASAKOM CABINET IN ~~~ PROSPECT OWING SUKARNO'S REALIZATION EFFECT SUCH MOVE ON US MEANWHILE, PKI APPARENTLY BUILDING UP STEAM CAMPAIGN WIN CABINET SEAT. AIDIT JAN 8 SPEECH PICTURED THOSE OPPOSED NASAKOM CABINET AS PREPARING CIVIL WAR AS THEY AGAINST NATIONAL UNITY; CLAIMED SUCH CABINET WOULD SOLVE PRESENT _E~_Q~ PR~BLEMS~,/------·--- -- f)ueA_ ~FAKCNED ARMY POSITION PROBABL y R[5ULT SUCCL3:;n1L ~~ur:ARNO MANEUVER ING BETWEEN 0 NASUT IOI~ Mm ,_IA;,11 LAST n 'd M0NTHS AS WELL AS DEGREE .,,f'l1 VULNERAfJ IL ITY CHARGlS cmnr-~ !BUT ING PRESENT ECONOMIC MESS. ;p. ------:E ------~------::0 ~ -i ~-"" 3: ~ -= JTI 0 z 0 -i 0..., 0"° '-'' (/) 0'~ ;p.~ ~ I'll 2. ALI ENDORES NASAKOM CABINET . IN SERIES SPEECHES WEST JAVA, PNI LEADER ALI SASTROAMIDJOJO EXPRESSED PNI AGREEMENT FORMATION 11 GOTONG ROYONG CABINET IN WHICH PKI 11 REPRESENTED 1 ACCORDING ANTARA JAN 2 REPORT. COMMENT: (~ZJO!f) APPARENTLY FIRST SPECIFIC PNI ENDORSE MENT NASAKOM CABINET ~OSSlf:::lLY MOTIVATED BY f:::lELIEF ITS FORM ATION OFFERS CHANCE ENHANCED GOVT ROLE FOR PNI WHICH PRESUMABLY WOULD REPRESENT NATIONAL ELEMENT OF EQUATION. ALSO POSSIBLE AL I tR I MM~ SA I LS WHAT HE f:::lEL I EVES PREVAIL I NG WI ND. DECISION AWAITED : QUESTION CABINET RESHUFFLE STILL IN AIR. DURING WEEK AMB MADE CLEAR DJUANDA, SUBANDRIO AND OTHERS SET-BACK INDO - US RELATIONS NASAKOM CABINET WOULD CAUSE. SUBANDRIO INDICATED NASAKOM CABINET /h WOULD NOT BECOME REALITY, WHILE DJUAND~ EXPRESSED BELIEF ANY - \~) RESHUFFLE WOULD BE INSIGNIFICANT. HOWEVER GENERALLY RECOGNIZED •- '\"' FINAL DECISION RE CABINET UP TO SUKARNO AND HE UNDER ENORMOUS ~~1 PRESSURE FROM LEFT FOR NASAKOM SOLUTION. THUS WHILE e· ·-\; SUBANDRIO, DJUANDA PREDICTIONS ENCOURAGING, CABINET ~J!')..~~ ~~' SITUATION STILL FLUID (SUBANDRIO JAN 17 TOLD AMS CHANGES \~· I ~~ coNTEMPLATED AND APPEARS SUKARNO APPROACHING BASIC 0Ec1s10'- ·~; WHICH MAY TURN INDONESIA TOWARD EITHER A) TRY FOR ECON / :, __ I .....:..~: STAB IL_ I ZAT I ON AND PROMPT _us FI NAN~-~ AL ASS ISTANCE OR B_) __ ------/- J ______~ ___NASAKDM CAB I NET. - --- 4. ELECTION PROSPECTS DIM . : DURING PRES ASS•T FORRESTAL JAN 17 COURTESY CALL fONMIN SUBANDRlO EXPRESSED OPINION ELECTIONS WOULD NOT BE HELD THIS OR NEXT .-SJ YEAR. SUBANDRIO STATED OTHER WAYS THAN ELECTIONS INSURE A \:::}-. 'Q GOVERNMENT RESPONSIVE AND ACCEPTABLE TO PUBLIC OPINION AND -- ~ INDONESIA NOT READY FOR ELECTIONS. SUBANDRIO REFERRED fl]~ COMMITTEE DRAFT ELECTION LAW, NOTED SUKARNO HAD APPOINTED MEMBERS WHO COULD NOT POSSIBLY AGREE ANOCONSEQUENTLY NOTHING WOULD COME OF EFFORT. COMMENT ' PK I LEAD ING, ADVOCATE or ELEC i IONS. GOVT MAY BE RELUCTANT ALLCM COMMIE OPPORTUNITY PROVE CLAIMED MASSIVE POPULAR BACKING. r 1 2. US CONCERN RE NASAKOM MADE CLEAR r DAY AFTER SUKARNO~FEB:13 SPEECH EMPHASIZING NASAKOM, J ·~~-IN COURSE OF MEETING WITH FONMIN SUBANDRIO REMINDED (j- t LATTER SENSITIVITY AMERICAN PUBLIC AND CONGRESS TO COMMUNISM, . ·~ \ ~ ESP EC I ALLY I F I T SHOULD INVOLVE REPRESENT AT I ON IN I NDO ,~. 1~. EXECUTIVE BRANCH. SUBANDRIO ASSURED AMBASSADOR SUKARNO ACUTELY {\~ AWARE TH IS FACT AND WOULD TAKE IT INTO CONS I DE RAT I ON 11 NO 'Cl:>~1 MATTER HCM F I ERCE LY HE TALKS~ ~ ~'!l ~ ALSO APPEARS ANTI-COMMUNIST ELEMENTS HERE NOT UNDULY 4RW.~~ ALARMED OVER NASAKOM ASPECT SUKARNO SPEECH AND TEND TAKE COMFORT PRESIDENT'S FAILURE INCLUDE SPECIFIC CALL FOK NASAKOM CABINET. THEY ADDITIONALLY OF OPINION SUKARNO TAILORED SPEECH FOR BENEFIT LARGELY PRO-COMMIE AUDIENCE. ------4. SUKARNO ADDRESS TO MPRS IN ADDRESS MAY 1 r.:; BEFORE OP.EN U\IG .MEU.LNUE.CQN[) SESSION. PEOF>L~~£... CONSULT AT I VE ASSEMBL1Y (MPRS) ~ PRES SUKARNO,. EV I ot'~,fn~Y ,, ____ ,,_ - RESPONDING COMMUNIST CRlTICISM,. EXPRESSED DOUBT THAT CURRENT ECONOMI~ DIFFICULTIES· STEM rROM MISMANAGEMENT. .'\ IN RATHER LAME EXPLANATION THESE DIFFICULTIES ASSERTED, ~ "EVERYBODY KNOWS OUR ECONOMY HAS· BEEN UNHEALTHY SINCE 1951 ."/\.~ ALSO PROBABLY WITH PKI IN MIND DECLARED TERM GOVT DENOTES · ~'\'J__ PR§SlOE:~T (COMMUNISTS JN CRITICIZING GOVT HAVE MAINTAINED ~~ ~;T~ Tl1AT SUKARNO NOT CONNECTED WITH IT)• ~~ ~, SUKARNO, AS IN PREVIOUS SPEECHES DERIDED ·CYNICS AND PESSIMISTS. IN EVIDENT ALLUSJON CABINET CHANGES STATED HE SPECIFICALLY THINKING OF9 IMPROVING TEAM- ASSISTANTSJ ALSO EXPLAINED NATIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL WILL BE DIVIDE:D,.ER~ INTO ·rwo BODIES .• ONE TECHNICAL, OTHER POLITICAL. .,._,,{;;... ------, ~ COMMENT I • • AMS, WHO WAS PRESCNT" oe:scR l BE'D SPEECH AS ROUTINE AND MILDJ SEVERAL OTHER DIPLOMATS INCLUDING YUGO AML1 BEL Ir::ve:o I TS MO~T I ~ORJ_~NJ _A~ft~I- ~~~--Qt11§$_1_Q_~~j______A~)~_RE_:f:E.:B_~~ce; _~~~~~9~-· - '} . ) 3~ SUKARNO APPOINTED PRES FOR LIFE ON MAY 18 e~ ~ I PROVISIONAL PEOPLEStS CONSULTATIVE ASSEME:5LY (MPRS), WHICH..,...~"'!" 'm f PRES SUKARNO APPOINTED, UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED RESOLUTION ~ :~ CONFERRING LIFETIME PRESIDENCY ON SUKARNO. ON MAY 20 PRES .--.... ACCEPTED WITH UNDERSTANDING THAT PERMANENT PEOPLE'S CONSULTATIVE !~"' l ASSE:ME:5LY (MPR), WHICH HE SAID "IS TO eE: E:LECTE:D BY PEOPLE IN I '~ FUTURE", WOULD REVIEW DECISION. I~ ------. ~ COMMENT . f::lEGINNING EARLY THIS YEAR ~ARJIDUS SYCOPHANTlC 1 ORGANIZATlON$ PASSED RESOLUTIONS CALLfNG FOR SUKARNO TO E:5E I ELECTED PRES FOR LIFE. HE TOO~ MO -R:P.$Kl 11SY;,ASSERTING MPR 1 \ WOULD REVIEW DECISION; ALL PREPARATORY DISCUSSIONS FOR ELECTIONS i HAVE INDICATED THROUGH VARIOUS CONTRIVANCES SUKARNO WILL HAVE '~ l=°IRM CONTROL OVER NEW f::lODY._./ ------· - - -· ------· - '------~--· 'ki.GU.tffff ~ (]~ ~N':" 14' .IAf?n~ <. 11~ 18) t.903 J• - - - - ACCORDING PRES MAY 18, PRES SUKARNO ISSUED REGULATION STIPULATING PO- LI Tl CAL PARTIES MUST NOTIFY POLICE AND LOCAL NATIONAL FRONT SOMMITTEE 3 DAYS IN ADVANCE ~EFORE HOLDING MEETING OR DEMON ~TRAT l ON._ ALS_9 _ACC:Q_~D I NG _B_E_GlJLAT JON,_ ~q__L!!_l_C~~ ~-0J VJ_l I ES _ MUSl t.:,<[ \v' l TH] l\i : I i-i I r ::; (,u l lJ[ 1) iJ•d.\.r~ACY AND MUST J\!(1T C) 1 ':3- Turzu F'U~~'~-: C, t 1 i\1/_-_~; <> v j 1_ !_l\,l I U\\:'~~ ;\1\:-:. PUN I SHAGU:: UF' 1 () I· IV[ AR<:' vc·-I L-., /-\ \ \. J l '.;lf··r'( i, - I\ I.-' 1r ...... /I '\' 1!•'1 'f'" ~M 1\i 'T .o COMMCNT _ FE:UUlJ1TIUN VIF~lUAl.LY SAME AS F'f.RTA!TNl\1G ( WEEKA 1 9) ORDER ON POLl TI CAL M[ET I NGS WHICH WAS I SSUE:D CARLIEP TH13 YEAR 0 ONLY SlGN!FlcANT DIFFERENCE IS POLICE _H_A_Y~_T_!.. ~EJ::J_2VU~ FUNCTION FORMLRl~'{ EXERCISED UY ARMY ·------·------·0 --- AT PALACE CEREMONY JULY 16 PRES SUKARNO ANNOUNCED HE WILL . "REV" •r-,1t HIS CAB I NET SO THAT "RANKS OF MY ASS I ST ANTS Wl LL BE \l~ t~iur -~·-. - . -·-CHANGES WOULD BE "MAJOR." INFORMANT 1-NDl'CATE:D-SULTAN DJOGJAKARTA 1 WHO WAS ONCE DEFENSE MINISTER AND JS CLOSE NASUTION AND ARMY, WILL BE MADE EITHER INTERNAL AFFAI~S MINISTER OR MINISTER OF TRADE. EM~ASSY DOES NOT YET HAVE HARD INFORMATION REGARDING EXTENT OR DETAILS CHANGES. __ // ------. • 2. PERSONAL FREEDOM fURTHER CURTAILED PRESS OCT 22 CARRIED PRESIDENTIAL DECREE EFFECTl.VE OCT 16 ::u:.J\/;:::~SIVE ACTIVITIES,. IN ADDITION SPYING AND SABO TJ\GE1 FOLLOWING PUNISHABLE BY DEATH SENTENCE, OR LIFE OR 2C YEARS IMPRISONMENT: DEVIATING FROM STATE'S IDEO.LOGY AND DISTRUBING STATEtS AUTHORITY; SPREADING CONFLJ·CTS AMONG POPULACE; DISTURtllNG PRODUCTION; DISTRIU'tfflON; "ENGAGING IN ANY ACTIVITY OR COMMITTING ANY DEED WHICH EXPRESSES SYMPATHY FOR ENEMY OR COUNTRY WHICH PRESENTLY NOT FRIENDLY WITH INDONESIAtt; RUINING PUBLIC BUILDINGS OR INDIVIDUAL PROPERTY. DECRESS ALSO ELABORATES ON PROCEDURES FOR INVESTI GATING SUSPECTS; CORKER IS ATTORNY GENERAL AUTHORIZED ORDER ONE YEAR DETENTION ANY PERSON ACCUSED SUBVERSIVE: ACTIVITIES. COMMENT __./~~, l SSUANCE DECREE MAY INDICATE POPULACE NOT SO CONTENT WITH MALAYSIAN- EMeARGO AS PAINTED eY GOVT LEADERS HERE. IT REPRE:Se:NTS NO NEW DEPARTURE: SINCE SUKARNO FOR LAST SEVERAL YEARS HAS BEEN JAILING OR INTERNING POLITICAL OPPONENTS WlTHOUT TROUBLING LEVEL_ CHARGES AGAINST THEM; IT ooe:s. HOWEVER, CONSTITUTE ANOTHER STEP TOWARD INDONESJAtS DEVELOPMENT INTO FULL- FLE:DGED POLICE; .STATE. _ ~"ER~ .. . .. , ~'{~r~· ·DEPET;JD l-N(3 ON STRICTNESS, lNTtRPRE:TAT I ON ANO''' I mouve: ...,' ~;,. MENT.a DECREE MAY RESTRICT WILLINGNESS INDOS ASSOCfATE WI TH MEl'-~c:lC..f\S US AGENC l ES AND OTHER EMBS. ALSO NOTED - ______RETROACT IV I TY OF DANGER TO l NDO CONTACTS I:3ECAUSE ANY COUNTRY MAY SUDDE:N[Y .. ' BE: JUDGED "NOT FR I ENDLY WI TH 11 lNDONES IA 9 SINCE THERE IS NO PROHIBITION AGAINST PROPAGANDIZING FOR FRIENDLY COUNTRY, PKI CAN EVIDENTLY CONTINUE PRO ... CHICOM, PSK-SOV PROPAGANDA. HOWEVER, DECREE RATHER SPECIFICALLY FORBIDS ATTACKS ON HOMES AND E:MI:3ASSY BUILD!NGS1 THUS MAKING IT DIFFICULT FOR COMMUNISTS AND OTHE:R EXTREMIST GROUPS CARRY OUT ANY FURTHCR RIOT ACT! .... VITIES (UNLESS AUTHORIZED). FINALLY, DECREE MAY WELL INTENSIFY USE ACCUSATIONS "'Di. ~SLOY ALTY TO DESTROY POL IT I CAL OPPONENTS• OF COURSE:, COMMICS MASTERS AT THIS GAME._/------~------~--~·· &l12 itUr( Rf:jritQf=tl_fN.. .v . ·2 o/-r 0 ,_,ifQ/ I J 1 'I~':) GOI ANNOUNCED. ··-·· ITI ON" CABINET. SPYARNO \PRIME MIN; DECEASED FIRST MIN DJUANDA'S POS!TI".>N I"J ESSEt..1CF. . DIV! DEn INTO' 3 PARTS;' WITl-t ~f>PO!~T"'1E~rr SUt3ANmHO,. tF.Tl'l.~N A· .. AND"SALEH AS 1sr. 2ND AND 3RD DEPUTY ?RIME MINS m:SPF.CTI•_TELY. OTHERWISE, STRUCTURE CABIMET UNCHMJGED, RFM AHJS n1v1nED INTO EIGHT BASIC COMPARTMENTS. HEADS COMPARTMENTS· N0 1 ~ CALLED "COORDINATING MINS" RATHER THAN.DEP PIRST MINS AS pqrvrnuSLY. PERSONNEL CABINET OML''f SLIGHTLY.:. ALTERED. THERE TH~Et.. " NEW FACES: ~1?.AM. ~AL·IK AS 'MIN TRADE, ;JUSUF' MPD~jDALAt>' AS MIN: .CENTRA~, BAf'!I>< AND BRIG -GEN , ~ , , I . .. ' , . O\JLY PERSON REMOVED· r'ROM CABIN£T WAS.. FORMER MIN SEA COMMtr~ICATIONS, VETERAN CIVIL SERVA~! .ABDUL MHTT·AL! ~, WHO .,RUMORED F'.OR AMB . Af PO:tNTMENT. P'ORMER; .PEP. MIM F'OR -HOME ··AE'F Al RS, . SAHARDJO, .. , AL$._0..;: VE_TE_RaN_ C_l'll_t,:__,SjfW A-.:"J! ,_ _p1gp MO\/ t 3 • •CLEAl"{L Y DEM OTE:D WAS DECEASED . DJUAN!>A •s· BROT'l-{~R _!~_LAW ... ,~.,. NOTOHAM!PRODJO WHO FELL FROM DEP FIRST MIN TO SEFM!N~LY. MEANINGLESS POSITION AS MIN/AD.VISOR FOR "MOBILIZATION FUNDS .l\~JD FORCES: .. ALSO LT. GEN. SUPRAJOGI t.osr F'UNCTI Q\' . AS A PEP F'!RST MI"J AND IS ME~ELY MIN ?USt.IC WORKS •. FU~THER,: NASUTION LOST SUPERVISION ATTORNEY GE~£RAL 'AND VETERANS ' vH DEPS· RETAINED SUPERVISION AqMY, r.JAVY, AIR FORCE ANO POLICE · [f0v1..- ·- -··--- --·------::------~·.- - --~---~'... -··· ;FORCE. MIN CENTRAL BANK AFFAIRS stmARNO.ELEV-TED T~ co-· ~.·· . ORD!MA!ING MIN .FOR F'!N ANCE AND HAS FOUR DEPTS UNDER .HIM. ~SALEH IN ADDITION ·RECEIVING APPOINTMEMT AS THIRD DEP P~IME ·~ :MIN TAKES OVER. FROM SUPRAJOGI SUPERVISIO~ PRODtlCTION.OE?T~ : AND SUPERVISES 8 MINISTERS; pqEVIOUSLY STJP!RVISED MONE.···. · ~-COMMENT------·---- ?RHfCIPAL MEM~ERS MEW . g '.CABINET AND THEIR RESPECTIVE RESPONSIBILITIES ARE:. ~ ~ 1 , SUBM~DRIO-FOREIGN AFFAIRS, LEIMENA • OISTRn'HITimJ ,'· .. · · ·. e; :u . SALEH .... DEVELOPMENT, SUM ARNO. - FINANCE, NASUTI ON bEFENSE." ~ ~ ~ ·.Alt. ARE FACES SUPERV.ISED ? ~ OLD 1 AND WERE INVOLVED IN Ofl .,SAME FIELDS IN PREVIOUS CABINET. . . ·. .. · . ' o ., r o :RE MEW FACES, MALI¥. IS VETERAN MURBA CNATIONAL ~ ; 0 :CO"lMUNIST>. PARTY OFFICIAL· !!\NO CURRENTLY AM8 TO MOSC0"1. ., ~JOA DALAM IS PRES STATE BANK AND RESPECTED ~y BUSINESS~· ~ .. COMMUNITY BUT THERE ·H.~VE BEEN OCCASIONAL RE.PORTS THAT HE - rri IS CRYPTO·COMMutUST AND PK.I WANTEI). }HM -ul CABINET •.. '.SAOI~IN, FOLLOWING RETU~N FROM MOSCOW LAST JEAR~ AFTER .. ·HEADING NIWAL PURCHASING MISSION, WAS EVIDENTLY HIGHLY .. · ·IMPRESSED WITH SOVIET MAVY, GAVE SABER RATTLlNG SPEECHES: : -~~_ J_NOO NAVY__AND JLA$___QQ_Ok_-_TD_ t'l/\~AT1~· l~L ~SI· 5-I~_ ~Q~T1{$ L_· _··._ ,, '1;;;;,i(_,J,;!;.t:!:'t/:Jti/ U~ l fv XJ;:J:,Q,,,, '-1- IYLiW SUBJECT SINCE EARLY SEPT. SECONDLY, HE MAY HAVE WISHED US . , =,~ UNDERSTAND ··THAT IF IT DOES NOT. RESPOND TO REQUEST FOR INCREASED'« ·AID .HE MAY INCLUDE COMMUNISTS IN. CABtNET._,------"------L------~- - --- __ :_ ------. ------·------· f;IUIJI llO!l.Jr)L Cl_(!)f~11-t,- (l}';AAMr1llJ;\.7< .. r.lYTf-1/ ('fh . . \ ":I . . fNf"\lj_\~y '· ... •' Vlrl.US or-- /.,)1,\ (i rflEi=' C»J PoL =-~rr IN DECEMBER 24 CONVERSATION WITH AMBASSADOR, NU HEAD IDHAM CHALID GAVE VIEWS INTERNAL POLITICAL SITUATION. SAID SUKARNO FREQUENTLY SOUGHT HIS ADVICE, AND NU REPLACING PKI IN PRESI DENT'S KITCHEN CABINET. CHALID CONFIDENT NU WILL EMERGE TOP PARTY IF ELECTIONS HELD· 1961. CONFIDENCE BASED ON PLANS, ALREADY WORKED OUT WITH NASUTION, TO TAMP DOWN PKI. PLANS, ADMITTEDLY INVOLVING "UNFAIR" TACTICS, ENVISAGE GRADUAL CURBlf\JG PKI ACTIVITIES NEXT TWO YEARS; THEN LIMITING PKI ELECTION ACTI- VITIES WHILE NON-COMMUNIST PARTIES GIVEN FREE PLAY. DELAY IN ELECTIONS PAST 1961 RUNS RISK OF SUKARNO CHANGE OF MIND WITH CONSEQUENT ALTERATION BALANCE POWER. CHALID SA.ID PNI CHAIRMAN SUWIRJO, IN RECENT MEETING WITH SUKARNO, COMPLAINED RE LACK PATRONAGE OF PRESENT GOVERNMENT, SAID NU AND PKI COULD EXIST WITHOUT PATRONAGE, BUT NOT PNI. CHALID DE~CRIBED SUKARNO'S POSITION VIS-A-VIS PKI AS SOMEWHAT STRANGE, INDICATION HIS LACK OF AWARENESS PKI METHODS. BELIEVE HIS CONTINUED PLA CATION PKI STEMMED FROM OLD FEAR OF BURNING BRIDGES, CITED HIS ALARM OVER RECENT MOVES TOWARD FORMATION !SLAM FRONT AS EXAMPLE HIS CONTINUING FEAR MOSLEMS WOULD UNITE AGAINST HIM AND AS REASON WHY FEARS CUT SELF OFF FROM PKI. ------2. Communist Leader Criticizes Government·.• In two statements in HARIAN RAKJAT,, January 16 and 18, M. H. Lukman, PKI Deputy Chairman and acting party head during now extended absence party Chief Aidit in bloc, declared Cabinet obviously failure as currently constituted, demanded replacement some (unnamed) ministers by leaders more capable fulfilling President's program. Denounced packing Peoples Consultative Congress with appointed rr:embers (WEEKA 3) and predominance army members in functional group body. Also declared most democratic way simplify parties would be new elections with election law to exclude splinter groups. Denied new party regulation would hurt PKI (See Item 4). Commenting on three year term of Peoples Congress, Lukman charged violation government promise hold elections this year. ------~------.------·------4. Political Party Regulation. Information Minister announced January 16 that regulations to . '!) \ be issued next week implementing decree No. 7 (WEEKA 3) • M'lj ~i~ l parties initially cautious in reaction to decree. PNI and NU~~.· " ' parties least likely suffer, have indicated lukewarm support. · PKI critical but not openly opposed (see item 3). Masjumi, .. ,.. apparently chief target of decree, engaged in sharp internal debate over attitude toward it, one faction favoring refraining from full compliance even at risk dissolution, other calling fbt' compliance. Biggest obstacle Masjumi compliance reportedly requirement endorse Pantja Sila. Re required denunciation rebel & . leaders, party apparently taking position.former leaders now with rebels no longer party members, thus no need denounce. Party Chairman Praqoto gave personal view January 16 press statement, asserting that Presidential decrees merely government policy rather than law, may be reversed at any time. . - -· ------,. - - - ·------.. ~------ rSPecuut-110IJ ().) ~l\A 1a"\r-...,. -uA IJ'IA .,/) fth 12, '9f?D ~~~2D- , i-\[PU1:ns OF CABiNET SHAKE-UP CONT !NUE.. NU PARL. :AME\T1\::v .·::_.'.)[ ., '.t 1 S;\ l D 3UCY f\ HOVE 't./OUL.D BE OPPOSED BY ARMY AND .l\L~- P:_;-__: TI'.: ., FART: CS EXCEPT PK I AND MURBA PERHAPS FORC ~NG SHO'.VDO·.-J:~. \..,t~:L~. -~~ LJ,CED ARMY SOURCE TOLD ARMA THAT A "GROUP 11 i NCLUD: :~,c.,; CH/\ : F;' L S/., . [~l, RU SL AN ABDULGAN [ AND PK! TRY l NG Tl.JRN··-~ud~(i·-····------ :,c;., · :' ;'~T AR~liY, CONVlfKE H!M NASUT!ON TOO POWERFlJ:... ANl:>1>laTTftJ~ "y.,;::R;·,.r~cw GOVERNMENT .• PRESSLJRE SUKARNO EL 'M:NATE /o.R~'-j ~M) GO\/::: . IME!\JT; SOURCE BC. 1EVES SUKARNO FEELS NASUT ! ON ()f..Tfl~(\ 1 ' T -----·------·········------·------~------C(::v1·,Cl\JT.. co;,;~<: 1\M:D suo: Rf-:POFT~::1, l'~ASl;T ·o:'-J >'1"< 1 -~·10-· : ·cy·; :-,.) FUL.: __ GEf\:L.JV:\l_ O~J r·u:mL•l·.f~Y 7 rAcccMPt-\f\1;[r_, ff( Pr;~A.-1c:>T ·')i\i ~:;:\;;"\ y fa-\Cl\Rrv:A TO FU:_ L .A 'R (-1/\R SH.l\L ) ; ND '.Ct\ r Es I~ EF1 ORT':, Of- fJf~ !0..-./ ~c; --,:_)f< .l\F;·i .JC J '\t?'/.!' ~::F'l_ iT fv1/',Y eE E' 1 • ' y : : 'H) f\IG Pl<. IN REORGAN: n:o CAB: NET' ------. ---~0 ··~ '--" ------··------"' Ul 0 -I )> ,,.,-I 4. Parliament Reconvenes: Speaker Sartono, at opening new session of Parliament, lashed out at government for failure give Parliament full role in governing nation" Pointed out Parliament still has right review executive decrees and alter if necessary. Also stressed "primary" right Parliament determine budget. In summary said Parliament under 1945 Constitution has same basic powers as under 1950 Constitution excep' that of overthrowing Cabinets. Claimed government could not dissolve Parliament" --~------ Comment: Sartono making fight enable Parliament regain some of power eroded over last six months by Sukarno. Budget debate continues contain serious criticism failure government obtain Parliamentary approval Sukarno decrees and policies. PNI Chaixman Suwirjo in conversation with Embassy officer said PNI depressed by rapidly increasing.quasi dictatorial powers of ~ukarno but was awaiting more favorable · conditions before openly opposing him. Would coordinate efforts with army. Seems probable, however, that efforts block extension power ot expense legislative are too late. No indication Sukarno willing submit acts Parliamentary review or limit GOI rule by d~cree. PKI making Sartono effort in hope appear defenders of democracy against army foe. Power struggle remains three-si.ded with Parliament mere pawn. ------President Sukarno M Background suspension a.s tol l~..;rs ~ Parliament, ignored past six months by government)' made ma.j or issue 1960 budget botli to show dislike unrealistic budget and to attempt re~~sert parliamentary authority. Last minute meeting betwek?n·Dju~_@ and Parliament leaders March 4 :reached impasse, indicated:> budget probably to be rejected when voti':">:g___ f}_t;_~_;-_t_~_4_:_Ma!.:_c;_h_'7-, ------n ~• • •·• • •••• 0 ~ At Cabinet ing day decision made take radical step suspend Parliament reportedly with full agreement President . ', and Nasution. \ , Despite army warning not make issue of suspension, PNI and PK! press strongly criticized move as unconstitutional. PKI leader 0 Aidit "urged" President call prompt general election new rn,, Parliament. Moslem Party reaction not yet eme'rged, with some )> ::a hints they prefer let others carry opposition ball. -I ~ rrtz -I Comment: Suspension unexpected at this juncture, bulk prior ~ Ul pre.dictions that Sukarno would decree 1960 budget if Parliament -I )> rejected it but would retain country's la.st elected body. -I rrt Present indications are that Sukarno plans appoint new Parlia~· ment, possibly before depa:r:ture world tour April 1, drawing large proportion membe:t·ship f:rom functional groups. SuspensV)n wipes out last party stronghold, one of few remaining centers formal autonomous power, furthe.r centralizes authority ir hand,i;; President and Cabinet • ...... ------~------3. Supreme Advisory Council meeting: Supr.eme Advisory Council held three-day meeting Mar~'.b 8-10 under cbairmansbip Sukarno. Sole agenda topics:, consideration land reform committee report (WEEKA 4) and diso-ussion c~!:rent price spiral. Two new members installed: A. M. Hanafi, p~co-Communist former Minister in Djuanda Cabinet, as additional delegate Suma:::"."a; Murba MP Pandu Kartawiguna as delegate 45th generation replacing recently-appointed Ambassador Russia Adam M~lik. ------~------1. Moves 'to Form New Parliament. President S~karno left .for Bali March 16 for private talks with leaders NU PNI and PIK over formation new parliament and peoples congress. Earlier in week, government announfed that cabinet had completed "working papers" on new parlia ment, peoples congress, organization national front, elections. Supreme Advisory Council Vice Chairman Abdulgs.ni, who accom panied President, told Ambassador it appeared Sukarno in tended excluae Masjumi from new parliament. Said present plans were to create parliament with total not over nine. parties: N,µ, PNI PKI, Catholic~· Christian PSII, PERT! PARTINDO and Murba, with possibility latter four merged into two groups. Military to get 35 seats. Abdu1gani'):::t uncertain whether possible install new parliament prio~ Sukarno departure wor~d trip April 1, but felt vital · do so in order .ase twin problems of Masjumi an~ econom.J._C!_ decl;l.ne. , · .. ' ______J~U Leader ~sta5fi told Embassy -~;£-.cers he und_~~-~~~~, Mtsjumi to be left out of m~w appointed f'1?~x·lir:~,..,.nnt: Noted this would put NU in diffi.c:ult posit ion, fo.rr:e:d d1Q.se whether support f PKI and PNI press conti::mes criti.~al of suspi~:'.':si.rm p.a~rl.iE. ment but vague as to futur·e move. ·~PKT c& lli.~ 1 g f-)r p:r:·.:;...mpt general election new pa.rli.an::entii PNI sugge:st;i~g lr::!2f~di~.te formation peoples cc:mgr.ess, including fun(';tir;r.<:.1 !:e:p:r·esf"ln tatives, to settle all c;utstmnding praiblefl'.s. Masjtud u~s:.der Roem told Embassy offict:~r: he beli.ev~d PKl and NU would go along with Presidents plans but hoped PNI \\Hmld fi.ght. Claimed exclusion M9.sjumi f:rom new rarli..&men:~: w:::;iul.d strf,~1g then rebels and intensify econoffiic decline. Comment: Situatio)n i!'l st81.tE~ extreme flu.K ~ wi":h dLr,~,(;~ir_;,n events likely to rew.oain urK~llmr until results Ba.li talks known o We 11-known Sukar.~v,) a:.::,,t;ipffithtc !'1"lsj umi r.:.nd p~~t !:yli open opposition his programs likely result 1~r~s exclusion from new patliamen·t, wh;11 ,"~ever fO!':ltll .it t&k*:::':L Posi~:i.o~s o_th_e_r_...,._~-~~-~es re ___".1~~~--_r:~~} i.P.1me~~~~--~-~~1_h_1't_~~!}:_~_,-______~ Jo, f9'J4- 'P.1No ""is-57-6 1 . 'l ,, ~ , . . ' ''i '' l • PRO-COMMUN I ST ATTACKS LAUNCHt;,D, AGAINST. CHAI RUL.;: SALEH AND ADAM MAUK ____ ,~ -FSEGtf:Jf'·hNG·:AT END OF.LAST., . . WEEK, PARADE Of PKl FRONT GR~urs i;,HAV:~:·~E;:NT·'DELEGATIONS, ~· . . TO OFFICES or THI.RD DE?.PREMfER GHA!RUCSALEH AND TRAOE ... MIN ADAM MALIK TO DEMAND~~THE;i':>:flREVt:Nf:·:·;'.PRJCC ·INCREASES ·:.. ·; GENERALLY• CRAP PROPOSALS fOR .' RAl~ I~~.!: tRAN~PORJ ATI ON .. :AND COMMUNICATION RATES AND :REYOKS·f'.LANS TO END SU6SIDIES· TO STATE ENTERPRl·SES. PRESS:'"'RtFORT Ofll(OlJTH:FRONT VISIT . . TO SALEH SHOWS Dl,SSF;Ll,e:f'.::1 or. ·~.~~EH.•S '.."~~~~I ES.,.:···>~ . , ,: .:'',, ,,,:AND :rRANSPO~J,·;~0~1 I i q.' .,., PRESID£NTl:AL ·····~4t !-.,,'{.•''.}' ,:,. fr'· 1 ':>'·''~·;··, . " '•,•-.,; ...' _J;::_.,_...: ______·___ -~-- ~~_'~1 '~_ .. , i~::-_.:.:· ''. 1~/~_'.·ii/i: .~io'~~_J~~'iA_::· _ _._2,·_,~._ ·~~-J\:__·~~·~",~"~---·-Jth__j'.~~.·._ ~~~---!:: ______. ---- 0 1 PRESIOENTIAL ASSISTANTS Tl;C::MSELVES" .. i.NHO ALLEGEDLY . ': RES PONS IBLE f OR PR I CE I NCRL ASES ,' t N .; Ct..tAR REFERENCE . · ' TO SALEH AND MAL I K. AS WEEK CLOSED• MRS. HUR UST I AT I "'' SUBANDRlo,· WIFE OF PKI SUP~>ORTING f IRST DEP PREMIER <. •· SUBANDRIO, LED WOMEN'S DEL TO MALfK·.•s OFFICE TO DEMAND . IHE HALT PRICE INCREASES. ------·--·------~--·---'-" - - __ ------· - _ -- _ - ' < •' l' '~ '• ~ , .~·1 I~ , 1 COMMENT s SALEH IS At;f{HOR OF APPARENT ( . )PARTIAL-NEW STABILIZATION rROPOSAL.·.:a(ING CONSIDERED'"· . WITHIN GOI THAT WOULD REQU!RE AUSTERITY MEASURES OPPOSED' BY PK I AND ALL I ES AS POL IT I CAL TACT IC". ASSAULT ON SALEH AND MALIK IS MORE DIRECTLY CONNECTEO; .. HOWEVER, WITH THEIR LEADERSHIP OF ANT I -PK I FORCE$'"'ft£CE.NTLY DEF'EATED THROUGH ABOLITION OF BPS. PRO-PK(: FORCES APPARENTLY ~ (';f i 5 BEL I EVE BPS GROUP CENTERED AROUNO:~ SALEH AND NAT I ONAL %J .IJ COMMUN I S_T __!.J!_UB~~ _P_A~TY ARE VL'LNERAB4E: TO MORE COMPLETE ROUT• ------. ·-.:...... :...c. ------2. CAMPAIGN AGAIST BANNED BPS GROUP ACCELERATES. ------INDO JOURNALIST ASSOCIATION,·(P~l) 1 E~PELLED 28 LEADING JOURNAL,ISTS ASSOCIATED WITH "SUKA~NOJSM," .GROUf:> (BPS),. .. , . INCLUDING MOST CH I EF ED I TORS Of· P~ JNC f PAL NON.-PK I PAPERS• DURING PWI MEETING IN MALANG. ·;,EXPELLED GROUP INCLUOED 12 IN DJAKARTA~ 12 IN MEDAN AND 4 IN .SURABAYA. PWI DECISIONS WERE ENDORSED BY NJOTO, MIN AITAGHt:'D TO CABINET PRESIDIUM AND PKI DEP CHAIRMAN, WHO EMPHASIZED THAT HE WAS SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF GOI AND CAB I NET PRES ID·llJM •.' NJOTO ALSO PROMISED TO RELAY TO SUKARNO.~f)WI R~C,OMMENDATIONS FOR RETOOLING EX-BPS FIGURES AND RECONSfD,E;.RING PUBLICATION ~'lt.R~ RIGHTS OF NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIAT~D WI.TH 8\S~ PWI SUBSE- ~ l).. ~ QUENTLY DEMANDED BPS FIGURES :at EXPEL~,£0.":SOQN FROM ~ PUBLISHERS ASSOC I AT I ON. EX...SPS PAPERS ,ARE REDUCED TO LEGALISTIC ARGUMENT THAT PKf-PWI ATTAGKS\·~O BEYOND PRES I DENT I AL DECREE ABOL f SH ING BPS•·, -~--"---~------' ' ------~---~------~-~------1v. Objection ~ctmbef 3.tJJ 19,5-57-6~\ 3. ANT l -US ~CT l ONS AND .. C: 1~~~NT. JH~~~~:~~~~ 1 1 1 :. r"~,t ..:' !. . ' 1•, '.· -(d ,•I ·~/jfi,.~.li:.~~ t· .'-!. 1: A. I N LONG , t _ TH '·suKA :J, HA 1s:tMAS\eEV'' . '·'t:"o'L""·'·I NG ·~ :: · :.. k(':. ,.·, .. · :.,;· <.. .)· . .. · REV I [WED THE. _ ·•· -r ~ VP . ,1.",', ·~.·.~··r , ··."1:: .~·;<,'W'·i'!'~··:·;i~··· .... :;:'~1:J,~:_.'·~·.~~::\ '<' ,. .. -----··-·· ..-.,., ..--..ud '-"'"-' . -, ~~'~,~ , - ::,-~~'~:r ·~./~~z:>~~·.t::~~.. :,-··,;:7~_-:;·i · . A) ATTACKS · Ot:! · ·us,i S, ·. 1':~1 r~~t;Al<~~~:t.f\t~~~~~A~~~.,:~~- }YJ AK ART A• 1011 ' BLB()YC()"f T uS f s' ~A, L~ :, ; . . /' ,, '; : ~'.~~~,;~~~? ~' '' ' I c) DI FF l CULT I ES ON RUBBER EST ATES.. -----...:..~--~;.];1:::1·:;}~*;,t: ·'- I " :\_' .: '•, -;-.,~l·t,:tt- _•fr'$ D) CONT I NUED FILM BOYCOTT. , ·;; • ; : ,\{~~·§;~~;: t) CONT I NUED BAN ON PARTICIPANT TRAI NJ NG ' - "'· · --.. "~ .-i ·•.···. ,·-· .. ·1~:~:,i;'': •·.·. ·. ·. ·_ .:·~~.·,Y~~:/i-"t:_;Af-~, 'F) THREAT BY SOBS! UNIONS TO BOYC.o;rr:.:'.AMER,lCAN.C.ARRIERS·~;;fNQt,;:Dt;>'.t~i ::T::::A~~:::· TAKEOVER OF RUBBER .:~~~1~~$~ .·. .,· ·~,'..'..i~."'.~;,:,y,;_ii / ~i?· ,: \'.,}·;~~ :: . ,; ' ,. ~ AMB STATED SER I OUS CONCERN OVER l~CRtAS-f NGL Y APPARENT PATTERN,, AND EXPRESSED HO~Q 'pR~S WOULD TAKE " ACT I ON TO PREVENT' WORSEN I NG. i1U~ARNO •.'' ' , ' \.(• / I 1 ___ ,.,.") 1·1~"'·,,. ',J'"',\ j" ·~~' . "; ',. f I ., COMMENT AT YEAR"S tND lJSIS. INSTALLATIONS I JOGJAKARTA AND SURABAYA;STILL ~1N--·;JNDO HANDS AND . ABOVE-LISTED HARASSMf;:NT~ ~~RS I St~~'':· t NO ------• ' le ' ·,, ..... ] I·~.. - '" _,,, ,._ -;11" -~,, • ! \ -· ·_.i ···~·. f'• ·~·''. ,, ·:1· l l··:V' , 8. T~REAT Qf·. Aff;I Ct ATEO ·. 1A I RCRAFT WORKERS UN I ON ( SERBAUD) ro-~B AMERJ C.AN ·.EMBASSY"' REMAINS MENACING~ . EMB.'.NO.TE ·.TO ,:fOt.JOFB,' Q~C 28 REQUE:ST,~l_N(),,PROMPT 1 STEPS PREVENT' THREATE.NEO ACTftOlf· AGA I NST1.AME:R)tAN.! ~. . -· .: ~,1 , , ., . •I .' '. , ,,_., ,.,,_ ·-~~,{t,~~"''V°!~·"' 4.. MODERATE WRITERS CONFEf \ 1 PR I JONO SCHEDULED SPEAK BUT I NSTREAD SENT MESSAGE WHICH LITERALLY QUESTIONED LOYALTY TO STATE OF PART IC IP ANTS. 3RD DEF) PR IM IN SALEH FA I LED SEND MESSAGE OR SPEAK.. 1 ST DEPT PRIM IN SUEJANDR I 0 AND MIN INFO ABDULGAN I SENT MESSAGES EMPHASIZING NEED FOR WRITERS TO WORK t'.·s· · WI TH OTHER GROUPS TO CARRY OUT REVOLUTIONARY GOALS .. EVEN GEN NASUTION'S SPEECH WAS NOT OVER-ENCOURAGING, ASKED AUD I ENCE NOT TO QUARREL WI TH OTHER GROUPS.. BES IDES NASUTION, ONLY CABINET MINISTER TO SPEAK WAS MIN RELIGION ZUHRI WHO SAID CULTURE SHOULD BE BASED ON RELIGION AND INDIRECTLY ATTACKED MATERIALISTIC CULTURES. COMMUNIST PRESS HAS DEVOTED IMMENSE AMOUNT OF SPACE I TO CONF PORTRAYING IT'S SUBVERSIVE MOVEMENT ENGINEERED ' BY BANNED SOCIALIST (PSI) PARTY. ------; COMMENT AFTER SUKARNO GAVE CONF COLD \ SHOULDE"R, NO ONE HAD COURAGE DEFEND IT AND PK I HAS HAD FIELD DAY LAMBASTING IT, HCMEVER, THERE ONE SALUTORY ASPECT; ------ INDO INTELLECTUALS, AMONG WHOM PKI HAS ACHIEVED LITTLE>W PROGRESS 1 HAVE HAD COURA.GE TO MAKE EFFORT MA f NT A IN SOME . FREEDOM FROM THOUGHT COIHROL. ------.3- I 3-(o4 "2fd t- -- 10. WRITERS' CONF CLOSES CONF ORGANIZED BY MODERATE WRITE~S, WHICH RECEIVED COLD SHOULDER FROM GOVT (WEEKA 10), CLOSED.M.t.\RCH 7 AND A"1~101J1'1CED FOR'lATION NEW WRITERS' ASSOCIATib~ UNDER LEADERSHIP PRES SUKARN~ RESOLUTIONS INCLUDED SUPPORT STATE IDEOLOGY, PLEDGE 03£DIENCE TO SUK.ti.RNO AND OENUNCIATION MALAYSIA, !MPEH!AL!SM, , COLONIALISM AND NEO-COLONIALIS.M. l-!OWEVER 9 THEY O~ITTED PRAISE 'FOR NASAK0'.1 9 PRAISED RELIGION AS ELEMENT IN NATION BUILDING \AND EVEN WENT SO FAR AS TO CALL FOR OBJECTIVITY· IN REPORTING •. COMMUNIST PRESS EVEN AFTER CLOSE CONF CONTINUED FRENZIEDLY ATTACK BOTH CONF AND NEW WRITERS• ASSOC; ?LACED THEM ON SAME LEVEL AS MALAYSIA AND rALLED FOR THEM TO BE .. CRUSHED.•• ~(p'lEe~ ",JI,,.~'• :"' COMMENT 3 I NDO OFFICIAL SUGGESTS REVOLUJ I ON PAU~ ·- ______FOR0 REASSESSMENT//._ ____ --- . . . -- l N LECTURE MAR 17 IN DJAKARTA, INDO AMB TO UK, B.M. DIAH (AN EARLY SUKARNO ASSOCIATE DURING FIGHT FOR INDO IN- ( DEPENDENCE), STATED, ACCORDING ANTARA, THAT ALTHOUGH I NDO REVOLUTION CONT I NUI NG ONEJI 1tPAUSE 11 IN REVOLUTION NEEDED. IF MALAYSIA PROBLEM COULD BE SOLVED, INDO REVOLUTION NEEDS REST TO MOBILIZE ENERGIES TO FACE FRONT PEMUDA (LEFTIST -DOMINATED SOUTH FRONT)CALLED FOf~ PRESIDENT TO GIVE DIAH 11 PAUSE" IN HIS OFFICIAL DUTIES IF REMARKS TRUE. LEFTIST BINTANG TIMUR SAID IN EDITORIAL PASUE WOULD OFFER OPPORTUNITY FOR COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARIES TO RAMPAGE UNCHECKED OER 11 AND CONCLUDED WI TH CRY: ONWARD, NO RETREAT 1 .);:'(§) , , 11 NO PAUSE.;i '-· ·~ ~ IN SECOND SPEECH MAR 19, DtAH ATTEMPTED CLARIFY HIS POSITION AND AFFIRMED INDO REVOLUTION COULD NEVER STOP., HOWEVER, "IF MALAYSIA DISPUTE ••• SETTLED, WE NEED TO ANALYZE SITUATION AND RESULTS OF' REVOLUTION T(! __ T!i!~_fQlf'ff~_•_•}'J_H!iJ_ ~!\_? MEANT_ !'f~~ _:_r_l~~-1::~? !~~R______ •• .,PROBLEMS DIRECTLY CONNECTED WITH LIFE OF PEOPLE •o•AND WHAT FURTHER STEPS ''.NEEDED. 11 DIAH NOTED SUCH STAGE ALSO FOUND IN BOLSHEVIK AND CHICOM REVOLU TIONS., COMMENT SEEN FROM ANY LIGHT~ 1 DIAH REMARKS ARE RARE PUBLIC SUGGESTION BY PROMINENT I NDO THAT "REVOLUTION" REQU I F~ES PAUSE FOR REASSESSEMENT i AND ORIENTATION ENERGIES TOWARD CONCRETE PROBLEMS OF PEOPLEa LEFTISTATTACKS WERE INEVITABLE AND IT NOTE WORTHY THAT IN 11 E)\PLANAT I ON" CONT A I NED IN SECOND SPEECH DIAH FELT NEED TO GIVE COMMIE JUSTIFICATION FOR HIS THESIS. ~ --·------2o CULTURAL MANIFESTO BAN\ PRES SUKARNO MAY 8 DECREED 11 CUL'fURAL MANIFESTO" ILLEGALo MANIFESTO, WHICH CALLED FOR SOME DEGREE INDEPENDENCE FOR WRITERS FROM ENCROACHMENTS OF STATE, HAS BEEN UNDER CONSTANT VIRULENT ATTACK FROM COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA MACHINE VIRTUALLY SINCE BEGINNING YEAR o I MMED I ATEL Y FOlijl,NG Df:PRE.E.:, H.Ho JASS IN, ONE OF TWO CO-AUTHORS MANIFEST ~IGNfD(f~M F~~ULTY ~ UNIVERSITY INDONESIAe FE\1;' J/YS . Ml~ fil~HER fJ)UCATIONt ~i ISSUED "CLAR IF I CAT I ON" ANNOUNC lf'J .J~SS I~ ~AD; BEEN RE'L I EVEO.i. 'i. OF HIS POSITIONo LEFTIST STUDEN\" ~ANl~AT1c;iNS HAD'BEEN :· :\ ~:. .... " '~-... . __ , i.~.,~ ,.,.,, ...... PRESSING MIN FOR SEVERAL ,MpNTH .• · JASp.t-N..IS DISJil!ISSAL ·· .. . COMMENT 1 IT EV I DgNf1B{NN I ;JAN 1Fdst COMMUNIST PRESS IN WELCOMING DECREE NOT ONLY GLOATED OVER ncRUSHING" OF MANIFESTO'S CO-AUTHORS, BUT ALSO ~(§)'IER'\l ' :.4 INDIRECTLY CRITl HAR I AN RAKJAT EVEN MEN'!" I O('IED NASUTI ON BY NAME; IT REMARKED NASUTI ON HAD ONCE PUBLICLY :;::UGGESTE'.D THAT MAN I FESTO BE AMENDEDo IT THEN SNIDELY ADDED THAT SUKARNO IN HIS DECREE ABOLISH I NG IT HAD SAID NO M;\N I FESTO CAN STAND ALONG SI DE HIS OWN (SUKARNO•S ) POLITICAL MANIFESTO. ______._...... ------6. LEFT l ST VS MODE:RATE STUDENTS · ENCOURAGED 'f::IY PRES . , · SUKARNO•S BANNING CULTURAL MANJFESTO ;ARLY MAY (We:e:KA20) 'PKI,~ .,•' OTHER LEFT I ST AND' PN I STUDENT ~OLPS HAVE: PRESSED F'OR DI SMl'SSAL MODERAT~ PROFESSORS AND OTHER MODERATE LE:.AOE:RS IN E:DUCATtONAl:- FI E:LD 0 i N ADD IT t ON, THEY HAVE CALLED F'_9R "BANN I NG MOSLEM Ul'U VE:f'S t TY STUDENTS 4ssoc1ATION (HMl) AND IN .. ~ J_tiEY> SUCCEEDEO. lN' f,>~,VADJ~G ' RROf;. UTRECHT TO~· BA!)! HMl]AT, 6RANCH LAW F'ACULTY /BRAW'IDJAJA .Y,NJY~~.$ffY_ : AT DJEMBERa (~AST JA~~r ... / ' ' ' cc. . •":: .· . . BEG INN I N'G JUNE: 9 ,HM I , ASS I st~o :·~ ·,'f:SY ARMY "'.BACKED AND OTHE;~ MODERATE STUDENT ORGANlZATIONS·cOUNTER-ATTACKED AND ISSUED PRESS cOMMU'NIQUE: DEMANDING DISMISSAL UTRECHT. THIS WE:EK THE:Y EXTENDED CAMPAIGN BY PAINTl;NG WALLS AND fENCES WITH SIGNS CALL.l'NG I FOR 11 RETOOL.ING OF UTRECHT" ANO BA'f\JNING Of CGMI (PKf STUDENTS• ORGAN i ZAT I ON) ANO SY SPREAD I NG ANT I -P.K l PAMPH L.E:TS. WI TH SUCH SI.OGANS AS 11 PK l 1S. ACie;NT PE:K I NCi" AND 11 0 I SS.OL. Vt AL.L. POL. IT 1CAL. PART I ES". LAST WC:E.:Ke:NO ,· ' ' HOWE:VeR• •. OJ~KARTA M:ri., 1.T ARY.' COt+iANOE:R IN ------,__ ------,_ ------_;. - - - ~\ - - -· - - ' - :... ·- ~-'._~. ~·-...:. ~ ··..:..: ' ..._ '._ - - - - ~ - - -L.. - - - -. ·- ·- - -· - NAME DJAKARTA NATIONAL FRONT AND PRO-COMMUNIST DEPUTY MAYOR DJAKARTA CALLED FOR HALT DISTRIBUTION OF PAMPHLETS AND WALL PAINTING. AT PRESENT AT LEAST WALL PAINTING PART CAMPAIGN HAS EVIDENTLY STOPPED· ~"ER~ ~ ,., ~ 1 COMMENT , -ANT I -COMMUN l ST ACTIVITY ·gy STUDENTS HAS -S~f:·,\.~ PROBAeL y NOT QUI TE REACHED LEVEL OF Aeour YEAR AGO WHEN IT ~NcH~ " CONTINUED FOR SEVERAL MONTHS AND HELPED PERSUADE SUKARNO NOT . J DISMISS MODERATE MINISTER HIGHER EDUCATION. ASIDE FROM BEING REACT I ON TO PK l 'S CAMPAIGN AGAINST MODERATES IN UN I VERS.1 TI ES, , ACTIVITY PROBABLY STEMS FROM FOLLOWING RELATED FACTORS: (t) SINGLE PARTY CONCEPT (ITEM 4) WHICH COMMUNISTS HAVE OPPOSED AND ~MANY BELIEVE SUKARNO FAVORS, OFFERED HANDY ISSUE FOR BEGINNING ATTACKS ON COMMUNISTS (NOTE THAT PAMPHLETS INCLUDED DE:MAND DISSOLVE POLITICAL PARTIES). (2} AFRO-ASIAN ISLAMIC C~NFERENCE ! IN WHICH SUCH IMPLICIT ANTI-COMMUNIST SLOGANS AS "SAFEGUARD j WOR LO FOR IS LAM" ENCOURAGED ANT 1•• .<:0MMUN I STS. ( 3) APPfJ\RANCE: OF ANTI-COMMUNIST EDITORIALS IN PRESS FOR FIRST TIME tlN SEVERAL YEARS (ITEM 8) Cf COLRSE , MAJOR QUEST I ON IS WHETHER STUDENTS AND OTHER ANT 1- COMMUN I ST ACTIVITIES WILL CONTINUE AFTER PRES SUKARNO RETURNS FROM A~ROAD. . ------8. MERDEKAtS ANTI-COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN IN ITS DISPUTE ~WITH PKI ORGAN, HARIAN RAKJAT, OVER ONE-PARTY CONCEPT (ITEM 4) INDEPENDENT DAILY MERDAKA, WHICH IS OWNED BY INDO AMB DESIGNEE BANGKOK DIAH~ HAS GONE BEYOND SCOPE ORIGINAL QUESTION AND IS STANDING UP AND TRADING BLOWS WITH COMMUNIST DAILY. ALTHOUGH COUCHED IN MARXIST TERMINOLOGY, WHICHHA.S BECOME VIRTUALLY ·CUSTOMARY IN l' PUeL1c POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS, AND HANDICAPPED BY PRES SUKARN0 1 S f PROSCRIPTION AGAINST "COMMUNIST PHOBIA" MERDEKA•S ASSAULTS HAVE ' CONSTITUTED MOST OUTSPOKEN ANTI-COMMUNISM WHICH HAS EMANATED FROM INDO DURING LAST SEVERAL YEARS. \ MERDEKA IN ITS ATTACK WHICH BEGAN JUNE 15 HAS ACCUSED / COMMUN I ST OF MI SUS I NG I DEAS PRES SUKARNO AND FOLLOW! NG f STALINIST TACTICS BY BITTERLY DENOUNCING ANY OPINION WHICH IS f CONTRARY TO THEIRS. IN ADDITION, PAPER HAS CHARGED COMMUNISTS 11 WISH TO SEIZE LEADERSHIP OF REVOLUTION t3Y GAINING POWER OF 1 MASSES" AND DO NOT TRULY ACCEPT STATE IDEOLOGY. AT SAME TIME MERDEKA HAS ADVOCATED KIND OF NEO-FASCIS~ BY EMPHASIZING NEED FOR ONLY "ONE LEADERSHIP" AND "ONLY REVOLUTIONARY CONCEPT," .'" ~· r • COMMENT . DIAH IN JAN ·1959 IN THRE:t'-EDITORIALS ATTACKED PFR WITH EQUAL VtHEMENCE. PRESENT ATTACK HAS RUN FOR FOUR CONSECUTIVE DAYS. MAlN POINT INTEREST IS WHETHER IT WILL CONTINUE AFTER PRES SUKARNO RETURNS FROM ABROAD. ONE THING SEEMS 5. MERDEKA• S ANTI-COMMUNIST ~AMP~IGN -- ---'-·. ----,-_ ENTERS 2ND WEEK CWEEKA 25 > . AS ()F' JUNE 25 MERDEKA •$ AT1 ACK ON PKI ENTERED , .. '~ ELEVENTH STRAIGHT DAY STRESSING THEME THAT PKI DOES ~0!: · .REALLY SUPPORT ST ATE IDEOLOGY. ?AP!R HIT HARD AT :· . . . . 'COi.'lMUNISTS FOR .. UNILATERAL ACTIONS CIT.EM 3), SAID"· . '... · / _L ,,THEY WERE __ ~EM INlSCENT ..O.F. t 948, COM.MUNIST.,.~~BEL~ION "_:_~~ ..:_--.:~.-~ .. '"'·~ AGAINST GOVT. STRESSED PKI IS DIVISIVE FORCE- IN -INDO- .. , QUARREL WITH PK! SUBORDINATED ______c,__, ·'-----'--" • _c__ ;· ·_,. 5. BLOWS AGAINST PKI CWEEKA 25 AND 26) _ DURING WEEK NEWSPAPER MERDEKA CONTUNUED DAILY ATTACK AG AINST PKI -i, .AND VIRTUALLY ALL PAPERS CONVERING ALL BUT FAR LEFT POLITICAU . SPECTRUM, IN VARYING DEGREES -CRITICIZED COMMUNISTS- FOR ... ~'... r UNILATERAL -LAND SEIZURES-.--- -M>DERATE-·STUDEN'rS-WON VICTORY --. ,, !\i!iEN MIN ___ Htis-HER--EDUCAtto~r~aLc'icKE'o" ·PR":r~PNi-·~sttcEME ___to ___FoRM · --> . STUDENT COUNCIL AT GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY WHICH WOULD :HAVE EXCLUDED MOSLEM STUDENTS ASSOCIATION CHM!) ~ . . ' ; :COMMENT NOTEWORTHY -PRES SUKARNO' HAS .NOT YET FOR· - '.BADE Ee"FORTS AGAINST PKI .. ANO THERE IS SOME EVI.DENCE TO INDICATE ;HE MAY- HAVE EVEN SUPPORT.ED" SOME OF THEM •. INSOFAR AS SUKARNO 'MAY CONDONE SOME AND SUPPORT .. 'OtHERS, HE MAY BE ACT ING ,PARTIALLY FROM DE.SIRE _-PLACAT~' PRESSURE .FROM MODERATE . ------=~-- --' · \~ :...__. -~ ··_ ..!..-:1 .• .:..._ '~--'-· ,.,.:!....._..._ -! -~,.,_, __. \~' '"'!'· • ' ..!'.t .. i:'.)L,,,,; : ·~--·-- -·--~·__::_ .. ·:'GROUPS, DEVELOP MORE PLEASING POSE,_ TOWARD WEST FOR . . ·•··; ~-·.7:<':1 '\: ·' ,·:'.~ i TEMPORARY PERIOD SO AS NOT DISCOURAGE FINANCIAL ADVANCE ' .. :,\i .. ·_ .{' / OR POLITICAL TOLERANCE PARTICULARLY FROM COUNTRIES WHOSE ~> -~ . · -. ' i INTEREST ARE LARGELY COMMERCIAL. ALSO, SUKARNO MAY BE . -_ ":)·~i ;.:··. ,':f' f PERM ITT ING OTHERS RE BUFF PKI FOR ITS OVERLY BOLD ACT IONS.::<{~\ : · · -~~ :JF PKI CONTINUES TO BE PLACED ON DEFENSIVE INTERNALLYf TH~S~)~~ 'i-'lt _ MAY HAVE FAVORABLE EFFECT ON GOI ANTI-MALAYSIA POLICY' -· · -· ~"". ALTHOUGH ANY RETREAT BY SUKARNO ON MALAYSIAN QUESTION.. _.,, _. :·:',,;,!0~:-~l'.I· .EXTERNALLY OR FROM LEFTIST COURSE. INTERNALLY WOULD :.· -__ , ~\.~: 1 ' PROBABLY BE TEMPORARY TACT !CAL. EXPEDIENT RATHER RHAN · ,.. · . :~· , • /'.. 1 PERMANENT CHANGE HEART . .'·, : . -- _: . ____· _ ~ _ ----'·- -~ .. ..:;, 0 2------'-'"--- , ....:..::,____:.:__;_;,_,___ -·- - ·---~----·-I - ~ ••,., ..,.,,, .... ,,.,l~.,~'!i LONG PRESS BATTLE BETWEEN INDEPENDENT MERDEKA ANO PKI' S '\-: ./·.'·' :HARIAN· RAKJATO!EEKAS 24, 26 AND 27>, ·WHICH HAS EMBODIED .·'··.:·;~.~-::. MOST OUTSPOKEN ATTAIN ON PKI IN INDO FOR SEVERAL YEARS ··. -~·";,, )IAS HALTED JULY 7 ON ORDERS ATTORNEYGENERAL. AG CALLEO · :! ;·~ t rG EDITORS BOlHY-APER~ o~ .. 11~ISTRY AND ASKED ' \,·· "-:,~·: HWFoN oF POLEM res, WHICH HE SAID -"ENDANGERED UNITY · ·-:··;.. :f· :oF REVOLUTIONARY FORCES IN BOD'( POLITIC, DISTRUBED · ·· · "<•' :POLITICAL STABILITY, AND COULD CAUSE PUBLIC TO BE · '..· ./.' ·· __ ;< ~-DISUNITED IN THINKING CON CERN ING REVOLUTION." BOTH -''(;: 'PAPERS NATURALLY .. ACCEPTED'" AG'S DECISION, THOUGH . V MERDEKA EDIT INSISTED CONSTITUTIONAL RlGHT -FREE SPEECH:. ALLO\JED PROBLEMS OF REVOLUTION BE OPEN:~f.. 1 Y DISCUSSED_._ .. ,, ... ·,· ; IN RELATED DEVELOPMENTS, SUBANDRIO ANNOUNCED AFTER ·iP~ER~';;~:· ,SUPREME OPERATIONS COMMAND< KOT!) MEETING JULY 6 THAT · ...;:,~._,,r. "· .KOT! HAD DISUCSSED HOW "'TRIVIAL·MATTERS! HAD BECOME ~-··. NATIONAL CONTROVERSIES AND THAT PRESIDENTCALLED ON · '· . NATION T6 A.EFRAIN FROM ANTAGONISMS "REGARDLESS OF . . · "-' CIRCIMSTANCES." PREVIOUS DEBATE",QVER,:;FORMATION SINGLE- , ,',;.~.>·~ •.i . . PARTY SYSTEM ALSO DYING AFTER sUBANDR.IO IN.· SPEECH JULY 5'"':.:_-;~· ·QUOTED PRES AS VALUir-JG EXISTENCE: OF PARTIES. !HIS :. '. WIDELY INTERPRETED AS _SIGN SUKARNO. DISAVOWING .. ONE--PARTY .. : .... · PROPOSAL FOR TIME BEING, THOUGH ORIGINALLY MAY HAVE . ,.. · BEEN TR I AL BAl..LOON FROM PALACE.\~c . : ,. . , .' . .,., . ,. .-· ;'· 'COMMENT/ IT APPEARS ANTICIPATED SUKARNO CRACKDOWN ON VARIOUS DISPUTES WITH PKl WHICH BROKE OUT IN . , OPEN DURING PASif MONTH AND HALF HAS BEGUN. AL.THOUGH ,'}, I· SUKARNO-ORDERED RESOLUTION OF' ONE DISPUTE(Il_EM 8) IS BLOW AGAINST PKI, .MUZZLIING OF THESE DE;.8.!l~.JUL.L CLEARLY .BENEFIT PKI AND AGAIN STIFLE MODERATES WHO HAD BROUGHT : INTO ARENA PUBLIC DEBATE WIDE RANGE or: PK! POLICIES AND.' . : ACTIONS FOR FIRST TIME SEVERAL YEARS. ACT ION THUS CASTS '. _p.QUJ~IS ON RECENT- HOPES MA~lY. lNilO.MODERATt:s.S:.iUKARNO AT : : :LAST WILLING PERMIT SOME REAL 'O~POSITION T(f'(:_:Qr.lMIE INTERNAL. \ ·ADV A~~CE. · . '::· ,. ~·· ·. · ;,, '. . . · ,. . , :_' - -· _,. -- --· - - -· - - - '.'.:-,~-''----.. - ~· .____ -· ·- ·- - - - -· -- - i 3o POLEMICS STOPPED {UNCLAS): Plt~Sf()E:NTIAL INSTRUCTION ISSUED f JULY 12 FOR CESSATION PUBLIC.POLEMICS ON PROPOSALS FOR RE DUCING NUMBER POLITICAL PARTIES, UNILATERAL LAND SEIZURES BY Pl~ I PEASANT FRONT AND ON MORAL CONTENT Of' NAT I ONAL EDUCAT ·~·-- SYSTEM. , j> •, 'tA 1 ------. -· - - - - ·-·------. - ·~------_... '...... ~"' ' .. '.,~ ... " ~':~·· ·- .: ,'\ " 5. C.L\~1PAIG.N AGAINST .MODERATES IN SDUCATIO.N CONTINUES. . . - ' . - ; ,. ~/>· •. *';'. •' ', ' i ~ I _. "\•" .,. .·.· R.EACTIONARY .. ELEMENTS, sucw AS ·MEMsi'Rs' or MOsL£M .UNIVERSITY . STUDENTS ASSOCIATION SEOEPLO. ANTARA REPORT TERMINATED WITH CAVEAT THAT PROSCRIPTION OF HM I MEM9ERS HJ ~MI ·WAS NOT INTENDED AS ATTACK ON .. ANY RELIGION·", BUT RATHER AS INSTRUCTION TO BRING MMI CLOSER IN LINE 1.HTH "'REVOLUTIONARY DOCTRINE''.· , '· COMMENT< CON/): SUMANTRI mmER .4TTACK FROM PKI .A.ND OTHER .. LEFTIST ELEMEN'TS FOR SEVERAL MONTHS AS NASUTION'S REPRSENT• .. ·· ·· \ l ATIVE IN EDUCATION ~INISTRY l.IJITHIN CONTE:XJ' .GENERAL CAMPAIGN { REMOVE MODERATE· INFUENCE FROM EDUCA!'IONAL· C(111MUNITY. ACCORDING LOCAL SOURCE' HM I' FORMERLY sruo;NT·. AUX !LI ARY' ... OF ;,,, . MASJUMI DRAWING FIRE FROM ALL DIRECTIONS AFTER UTRECHT .· AFFAI'RCWEEKA 28) AT FIRST OSTENS!BL Y SETTLED 1IN. HM I• S . FAVOR. NEW. SECGEN AND HIS 5· DEPUTIES .R.EPLACE ONE MAN, . . . . ;,.· \ . ,' "11 - - , ____ - •__ , --· ·'_'. - -- ~~''·.'.;: '•, < .' •·.: I \ • PROFESSIONAL STUD.E~·f'.[' 'LEADER HASAN RY':;)lHO DIED LATE MARCH, , . 1964. NEW SECGEN 1.tl.l\S·· ONCE INDO LANGUGE ..INSTRUCTOR CORNELL,,, · · UNIVERSITY, NEW DEPUTIES DO ~JOT APPEAR HAVE' ANTI .. WESTERN- · BACKGROUNDS. ATTACKS ON MODERATE ELEMENTS MADE DURING PRESIDIUM MEET ING THUS '?OSSIBL Y WINDOW-DRESSING TO 'MAKE. MORE I PAL AT AB.LE ELECT ION OFJWN.-;coMMUNIST. LEADERSHIP. . ___ :._ __ -- -- _· __ ------' ''• ' .. _...... ___ ,, -".. __., __ i __ -~-- 5. NEWSPAPER POLEMICS RENE'WED , NtwSPAPER :' POLEMTCS BETWEEN COMMIE AND NON-COMMIE NEWSPAPERS, WHICH ) HAL TED BY SUKARNO'S ORDER IN JULY AFTER THEIR UNUSUAL i ERUPT TON IN LATE MAY:; HAVE RESUMED• PRESENT DEBATE BEGAN ; OVER QUEST I ON OF WHETHER TRADE MI NA DAM MALT K 1 S ORDER TO l STOP BOYCOTT US FILMS SHOULD BE OBEYED (LATER GOT GENERAL , / PROHTBTTJON AGAfNST UNAUTHORIZED DEMONSTRATTONS AND BOYCOTTS I AL.SO INVOLVED). LEADERS OF NON-'COMMJE PRESS JN POLEMrcs ARE MERDEKA (!NDEP), SERITA JNDONESTA (PRO-MURBA) AND WARTA BERTTA (PRO-MURBAL ALTHOUGH PAPERS CLOSE TO ARMY AND RELTGTOUS GROUPS HAVE SUPPORTED THEM. MEROEKA 1 WHTCH HAS BEEN MOST OUTSPOKEN CRITfC OF COMMfE ELEMENTS NOW AS WELL AS TN EARLIER DEBATE, JS NOW sr1NG SUBJECTED TO STRONG, POrNTED CONDEMNATJONS BY PRO-COMMIE PRESS AND HAS ALSO BEEN VISTTED BY YOUTH FRONT DELEGATION WHICH THREATENED TAKE ACTION If ~ERDEKA DID NOT REPUDIATE EDITORIALS. ------3. POLE~lICS, FILM BOYCOTT AND LAND REFORM DECISIONS, ...... NEWSPAPER POLEMIC, CWEEKA 38) WHICH HAS BEEN RAGING RECEMTl...Y.i·.· .. <.; BETWEEN PRO•PKI AND ANTI-PK! GROUPINGS, INCREASED IN VITUl>ERATIONt 1 UNTIL CABINET PRESIDIUM ANNOUNCED DECISION ON SEPT 22 THAT · "·. · f POLEMIC SHOULD HALT• TWO DAYS AFTER DECISION, ANTI•PKI PAPERS WERE CONTINUING THEIR ATTACK, HOWEVER, WHILE PRO•COMM IE GROUP .::1, :.t\"4£9 : . . ·~ ·~ .. · .. . ~ . ~, .t.~.~· ·.·' i:, .MEREL'f'NOTEff.THis-riisoBEOIE.NCE-·To' GOI DIRECTIVE. ~ra ';~ CABINET PRESIDIUM~ WHICH WAS EXPANDED OWAD HO.C BASIS TO . INCLUD PKI MINISTER NJOTO, ALSO ANNOUNCED THAT IT WAS TAKING OVER ACTIVITIES OF ANTI-US ·FILM BOYCOTTiCOMMITTEE AND ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL OVER IMPLEMENTATION OF L~ND REFORM INVIEW OF · · i OCCURRENCE UNILATERAL ACTIONS. THRP!E MAN MINISTERIAL . COMMMITTEES WERE'APPOINTED TO RESOLVE ALST TWO MATTER• FILM COMMITTEE CONSISTS OFCRYPTO•CQ~MIE OEI TJOE TAT, LEAPER OF ANTI-BOYCOTT FLIGHT ADAM MAl..IK AND MIN INFOACHMADI. LAND REFORM COMMITTEE HEAVILY WEIGHTED TOWARD PK!, CONSISTING OF. , MINS NJOTO, MUDJOKOAND HERMANSES.FIRST IS POWERFUL PKI ~ LEADER, SECOND ·IS SECRET PKI MEMBER AND THIRD .IS UNDER SEVERE·. .. PRESSURE AS HIS DEPT OF AGRARIAN. AFFAIRS WAS INCLUDED IN SUKARNO'S AUGUST 17 CRITIQUE OF· FAILURES TO' IMPLEMENT LAND ···. REFORM ST ATuTES. . . . . '. . , . . . · . EVEN ON FILM BOYCOTT 1ssur: WHERE· PKI HAS LEA5I' CHANCE ' 1,-' OF GETTING ITS WAY, GOI SEEMSk TO HAVE BEEN WOBBLING WHEN SUBANDRIO RECEIVED DELEGATION FROHFILM BOYCOTT COMMITTEE AND PRAISED BOYCOlT'.' OF. US FILMS AS' HAVING "MANY POSITIVE ASEPCT~."-____ AND___ BEJN~L~~~J~X: USEFUL IN FURTHERNG INDO REVOLUT !OW• .. ~------·· ------' -- ~~------L ,_ ------ COMMENT: • INCLUSION OF Nt.JOTO IN CABIMO' PRESIDil.fr1 . .. , .. SEESION SETS DANGEROUS P~f!CENT OF. PKI INVOLVEMf:N1 IN TOP ,, PISOLSIECY MAK~G IN SPITE OF ITS AD• KOC NATURE. ALL THREE ... i. ·,,.:,,; U S THA11wERE SUBJECTS OF THESE PRESIDIUM. DECISIONS ARE ...·.·. I1 L.·~~~i~~k~T-~r.6 :f ~i~~~p~~~~~m~~.r0Hmc.~.~~m ~~1lfo1 Km· . ;.. ~,·~~ I '• •'~~< • .·· ·r1ns D1V1SON.SUFFI~IENTl.Y PAPERED ov~R To PREVENT POl.Fl'I I~;! • • BREAKING our AGAIN It)ABSENCE STRONG REPRESSION BY GOI OF ,,{::I· .. : ONE SIDE 'OR OTHER · . . . ·· -· .-:,. · ·.:~ ------______.______. ___ } ____ .._ ____ ..._ ------~·---~) -- 10-J. -CA Tkfolt 5. NEWSPAPER POLEMICS TERMINATED1. NEWSPAPER POLEMIC CWEEKA 3 9) FINALLY T AF'ERED OFF IN DEALAYED -RtSPONSE TO GO! DIRECTIVE. MERDEKA, NON-COMMUNIST DEBATE LEADER, WHOSE OFFICE INVADED BY COMM IE THUGS EARLIER TO PROTEST. --- - - ti ~3.P_~Kt\_~_$ __ u.i_o_rclM£NT __ Qf__ AN.t I:-:_USl$ _.QE:f'tA~P_$_ _$ y_ _X_Ql)J_tf __ f~_Q~J_t_ _- ---·------ JOINED WITH YOUTH FRONT 'AND INDO· JOURNALIST ASSOCIATION . STRATED REVOLUTIIONARY AS ~ELL AS YOUTH FRONT "REGRET! ABLE ••• COMMENT STATB~ENT DESIGNED PROVIDE FACE FOR ALL SIDES, BUT DISPUTE SETTLED IN MANNER ESSENTIALLY BENEFICIAL TO LEFT. DEABATE NOT.COMPLETELY STIFLED; TWO DAYS.·· LATER MIN INDO AND ATTY GEN (BOTH ARMY GENERALS) ISSUED · · ' STATEMENT APPROVING OF POLEMICS ';AS LONG AS .. REVOLUTIONARY ·~ .. NATIONAL UNITY .. NOT IMPAIRED THERE FROM·; GAVE EXAMPLES OF: ;,. IN CORRECT POLEMICS WHICH SHOWED CLEAR CR IT IC ISM OF PKI. . · POLEMICS REPRESENT SURFACE RIPPLES .QN WIDENING GULF BETWEEN LEFT AND RIGHT REFLEC~ED IN· GO! AS WELL AS OTHER INSTITUTION~_'! ___ . 10-10-M ~o/ls-s?-6 1 ' 5. TR,~D~ ~l!N ISTE;i ADAM ~1t~L!K .l~TTACKS PKI , TRADE : M!NISTEH .ADM1 t-1 ALIK, UNDER FIHE RECENTLY FROtti PKI FOR HIS 'i ,~ POSIT IG;,J ON RICE ISSUE C'\:JEEKA ·~ l), LASHED BACK VIGOROUSLY ; OCT .. 12 IN SPEECH TO HIS MUHBA 7 :\.. ::~·o::;:s ((1??t:.::::1Tf '.\:Zi EH£~.iCE TO PK! 'AT! ACKS ON u::D 0 HE uARNED INDO :·.-:::.~ ·;:... ::: >: "'· TO 3!: :•CLL2D t.:JD RECALLED -.B!T'fER AND :··1:~,~GIC 1 .••• ·;·::.-~: :~~~:: : ~;~~~ o~-: ! 9~~3w 9 ZJHEi\l R7iP!J32. ICArJ FORCES RC:P~:~~~S:ED ?XI .... J'J:-: :;~:VOLT u:·:.·H ~,::::RE {,t;;J S~JDRD., ".. .< ..-"::::··:·~L:.:C'tS DZS?EHATE :~.:;;;:i~ENZSS OF S'TRENGH OF Pi HIS i·1EANING AND NOTED THi\T Pt.N"l'JASILA PLANK ON RELIGION DID NOT MEAN MOSLEMS OR CViH:i:STIANS SHOUl.. D GIVE UP RELIGIOUS IDEN! IT IES. ACCORD ING C~.Sr, .\ID :tT HAS BROUGHT CHhRGES AG A.INST NINE NEUS?t,PERS FOR LIBEL" :: :~;~::!WHILE LEFT ·RIGHT SNIPING IN PRESS CONTINUES AT ACCZL·:Fu.,··i'ED LEVEL, INCLUDING OTHE ISSUES A_~_~~~~~______~'4f.R ~ ,.C>, C0: 0Ji1ENT E~7t\C.'.:RB,·it !ON OF POLEt·HC ,,._ ~ AND MORE OPEN lNVOLVEMEw~· o:;- POLITICIANS IN ADD IT ION TO~, PRESS REFLECTS GROWING POL:~nrz11TION WHICH CAUSZD PAI\TLY BY FEAR IN HODER ATE QU.~RTE::~~~; O? m?LICIW :rnNs sm,:t.iRNO •s ~ AUGUS1' 17 SPEECH AND ATTEi: Ft ED PURGE Of r:J ODE RATES IN LATE AUGUST .. BOLDNESS OF MODER.·ffES UNDOUJTE:DL Y HAS INCREASED DURING ABSENCE 'oF su:~RNO AND SUBANDRIO AND NOW QUESTION OF su::.i'.\R~JO'S HEPJLTH MAY CONTRIBUTE TO ACCELERATED JOCKEYING FOR POSIT !ON BEHH~D !3CENES. , ------~------if:: ~g:~ A::::::':K~:~I~::~~:T aM =ds1 1 PJ-\( J'f-Ji1, S IL.o. H!STRUt lENT OF UM IT Y \:JHICH ~OtJLD NO LOfWEh' BE N2EDED IF l~lITY ALREADY ACHIEVEDCWEEKA 43) HAS PRODUCED WIDE SP11E:\D en IT ICAL HES PON SE FR OM ANT I-PKI ELEr11£NT s. HE SULT it-JG POLE: IC NmJ DOM IN ATES lNDO PHESS AND HAS SPREAD 1'0 PUBLIC STATE11ENTS OF POSITION BY POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS f\ND POL IT ICIANS., TONE OF DEBATE IS £)\"I'REMEL Y STRONG \J ITH ALLEGP,"f !ONS OF THEASON AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION BEING HURLED ABOUT BY BOTH SIDZS~ ?.MONG THOS1!: WHO.HAVE ATTACKED AID!! AND PKI BY NAME AHE IP-lrI AND Cti.TMOLIC PARTIES, THREE NON-COMMUNIST ·:r:;;;t.DE ~~ER~ WHONS'.l sc:·lE H!DIVlDUAL NU 1~ND PNI POLITICIANS AS l;.1ELL AS ~ ':-'' L~:RG~: ~\!!p1BER Of N~WSl~~~!ERS INCLUDING BER IT.4 IN?_?N~~I ~...... ,Alf' ... ,;;.~ A;<.;D ~·U\1~1 t• BERlfACr)ii0""'>·1JRBl\), NERDEKA< INDEPENDE:H R:.Gt:1 PNIJ .· \l...... Gt.2UDP. ;)JI} PELO?OR < Fl~O-ARMY>, KARYAWAN A~ ~AU ~, wtlJ ~ ~ ~ v/ fk.I .Ll. . ·, ;·_;·;' ;-;1:.s s:::I:~~ TRYING TO GE'.l SITUATION UNDER COi'·~TRGL fl".''~"'." . .-,. E,i_ ';,' 1/ITHOuT OVERLY UPSETTING AROUSED tt;ODERt~TES~ :-:~~ c~; 1 ,' .. ,_ t'. '~ZT n;G OF :rnTRt-.R c;·J OCT 26 WHICH RESt;LTED I~ ;::;~;~'.~SS ::_;-r ::~·;· 1.~~ ~t;:;:\t SU3VERSIVES t~~JD COUN1.. ER-RE~'0LtJfIO~~tJJ::.~:-~~· ~~j~~ ~ ;r:,'" ;;··::v: MW LW:ZR RE:c:::I\!EJ ACTING HE;;~)S OF' N!:.T:lr:r:L Y'~ONT . ~~;,J:_'.· :··. ;. :.z.·.:iz:; i-i'.l..I S,C\STRO:~:·:ICJJJO PJlD. AID!T TO DISCi.t3S r~ ·:u~ ":· ~·~~ C~ ~-.. II::;: (II~ i.-:5;_rBVER~J~\1 E : ·>:J COUl\JTER ·'"RE VOL UT IC~~ .tt2~;: .c: .. ;r:·,,.::_~:·I::5.,'' ;'l .... TlON,\L FRmrr \)}:N TURN11 IS liFntANGI'.'JG r.:r::TIN'3 .. ·::T;: :_ u::·~- :~ :;:~.;~;:') JOtrm?~L!S'T ASSOC I AT ION, NEWSP::'1?~~::s ,c';;;i) f:Et\D O? :::~_:;.:::L.~n-1c;·:.::3y C.~DRE SCHOOL AT WHICH AID11 SPO:c.:: ?OT: !:·:-!.~:.~·- ":~~'.~· .. ~U!~P~SE 017 .... RE_CEEC:\,H-JG WHAT AIDIT Aww:.LLY sr-.:)~\jfR 1 :1':;.,; . ... >!Jl.; :._. .,,,;z iO Ri:.S0.1-Vr... PROBLEM. \,. (:,~~ ''; c?:.:::\'.'.·::... '! n:c~EP:SED :'.NTENSITY OF PRESS ?OL.~\ ~c c.- .:; L. . -~=> ~< :J ~·J ~.l,( :::~~, ~ -: t·i O:! E o r"12t~ : r\Jv ·J!.. VEr~ Etrr o F re:...~~~~ ::c ~~:~:,.. ~, · .,: ... /~;!;·::::-.: ,~, E'.:::. ~;_"~~ .. vzs HiJ I Ct:TES ·r HAT SUKP.RNO AND SUB ANS:~: IO '.'·'1 i-1': :-:t.V:':: ;;o.~r 'i' .·:c;_;;JLE T i1A~l HERETOFORE IN cow ING ANT r-cc::r·1 U~ll ~::·t ~; :.:tc:J cc,,.;.-~/'.;:_IIY. INC;\EASE:D NON .. ·C01·1[~)UNIST WILLINGNESS TO sr;::1.~!( Li? :IS '_i.:::~..JJ.:L y RESULT OF i'~L~.RM 1~T SUKARNO EFFORTS IN R2CErrr 1 '.·'.Oi I Fu;E:-:::c; TO LE?T .. DOUBTS ON SUKARNo•s HEALTH MAY ALSO BE ------·~~ I CONT:~:~3UTI~lG TO GROWING POLARIZATION POLI'fTCAL Fnnr·1;- ..::• :•":'"";' 1- T"")-//'· ... r ,,..... - 1 ., • ...,.._ ... ,..,,1" 1 ~ ... ,,.,__. ' 0 .. :\•.~~U\JL. ING COViMITTEE AS SOUNDING BOARD Ji\ 1 D•c~:r::'•.:: ,... ,.,'.•"':.:,:,(·~,E""'-'<"~'' 1n VV« L .... ,;;/ ,., - ~ 1 IN . -· ..... ~ _,,J n ..... Co :.JL.U ,_N ~ EXTENSIVE PERSONNEL SHAKEUP AFTER SUK :'..11r0·" • ~ · nETUFfrJ IF ONE SIDE OR OT HER BADLY BEATEN. · .. • ": .... ------41- ~- ~4 -tlipA;~-~7-6 1. INTERNAL POLITICAL STRUGGLE CONTINUES BITTER POLEMIC BETWEEN NON-COMMUNIST AND PRO-COMMUNIST COALITIONS CONTINUED UNABATED FROM LAST WEEK (SEE WEEKA 44) IN SPITE OF EFFORTS BY REGIME TO INDUCE CONFORMITY AND IN SPITE OF SOME WAVERING B MODERATE ELEMENTS. -t-~"~~ /AFTER ACTING PRESIDENT SUBANDRIO TOLD YOUTH RALLY LATE LAs+~!t\4~~ /WEEK THAT PANTJASILA-MANIPOL WAS DOCTRINE OF LEFT, HE CALLED ; IN MURBA AND NU LEADERS TO DISCUSS NEED FOR UNITY AND CESSATION ' OF "DEBAT; CONCERNING COMMUNIST LEADER AIDIT'S REMARKS ON PANT- . JASILA. NU LEADERS APPARENTLY AGREED TO HALT DEBATE BUT ADDED WAR~~~-T~~~-~~OR~~- TO_~EVISE PANTJASILA wo~~~--~TIR P_U~':_I~ - - REACT I ON. THEY ALSO EXPRESSED HOPE FOR f'F I RM STEPS AGAINST THOSE WHO REVISE ITS TRUE MEANING", MEANING AIDIT. CHIEF PROSECUTOR OF DJAKARTA ANNOUNCED LJBEL ACTION WOULD BE TAKEN AGAINST MOD ERATE REVOL.USIONER FOR MISQUOTING NU LEADER THAT "CONFRONTATION AGAINST PKI SAME AS CONFRONTATION AGAINST MALAYSIA". PROSECUTOR THEN ANNOUNCED SIMILAR ACTION AGAINST FOUR OTHER MODERATE PAPERS (SERITA INDONESIA, WARTA SERITA, MEROEKA AND KARYAWAN) FOR SAY ING THAT PRO-COMMUNIST "PAPFIAS" FILM CONFERENCE (ITEM 6) Fl c:.'>~'4ER~ NANCED BY FOREIGN EMBASSY. ·~ '"' r,... ~ AFTER MOMENTARY SILENCE PARTLY INDUCED BY BAN ON CRITICISM OF~ 1~~ AIDIT STATEMENT, MODERATES REACTED TO LIBEL CASES BY LAUNCHING ~ OWN LIBEL ACTION AGAINST PKI 1 S HARIAN RAKJAT FOR ITS LINKING OF MODERATE-SPONSORED "NASAKOM" FILM CONFERENCE WTIH IMPERIALISTS. PRESS BATTLE ALSO CONTINUED WITH EMPHASI~ ON EFFORTS PROVE PKI INTENTION TO SEIZE PONER ULTIMATELY THROUGH QUOTATIONS FROM OLD PKI DOCUMENTS AND ON BLOWING UP PKI INVOLVEMENT IN UNILATERAL PEASANT ACTION AT INDRAMAJU (WEEKA 44). ~ATTER IS SINGLE ISSUE WHERE VIRTUALLY UNITED PNI OPPOSITION EXISTS TO PKI. MODERATES APPARENTLY ATTEMPTING TO WOO PNI LEFT WING TO THEIR SIDE OR TO NEUTRALITY AS SHOWN BY MERDEKA EDITORIAL WHICH DIFFERENTIATED BETWEEN CRITICISM OF MODERATES BY LEFT PNI AND PKI PAPERS. THIRD DEPUTY PRIME MIN CHAIRUL SALEH ALSO EMPHASIZED DEVOTION TO PANTJASILA, WHICH IN PRESENT LOCAL CONTEXT CAN BE REGARDED AS REBUKE OF PKI, IN SPEECH TO PNI STUDENT AFFILIATE. LATTER HAS WAVERED IN PAST BETWEEN PRO-COMMUNlST AND ANTI-COMMUNIST SIDES. RUSLAN ABDULGANI ALSO CAME OUT WITH HIS STRONGEST STATE MENT YET ON NEED FOR DEFENDING PANTJASILA IN SPEECH.., TO ARMY WIVES • COMMEN~/ OPENNESS AND ACERBITY OF INTERNAL SPLIT WHICH PERMEATES GOI AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS GENERALLY HAS SO IN CREASED IN SUKARNO'S ABSENCE THAT HE WILL HAVE DIFFICULTY IN PAPERING ,.OVER CHASM BETWEEN LEFT AND RIGHT. IT IS STILL VERY QUESTIONABLE WHETHER MODERATE FORCES CAN PRESENT SUKARNO WITH STRONG ENOUGH FRONT TO STOP COMMUNIST ADVANCE. HOWEVER. THERE .. ARE GROUNDS FOR SOME HOPE THAT THIS CAN BE DONE.11 EVEN THOUGH THIS DEFINITELY OUTSIDE CHANCE, PARTICULARLY IF ARMY BACKING AVAILABLE. IN THIS CONNECTION, GEN. NASUTION KNOWN TO BE TRYING TO WELD ALLIANCE OF ARMY ELEMENTS AND. RELIGIOUS AND OTHER MOD~ ERATE GROUPS. ------·-· 1btern.ics 2!JKt1RNO'S REI.URN TO, DJAKARTA HAS NOT STOPPED 'POLEMICS BETWEEN PRO-COMMUNIST AND ANTI-COMMUNIST . ELEMENTS. COMMUNIST PRESS IS RECITING HISTORY OF ITS 'ENEMIES' "COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY" ACTIVITIES DURING ; SUKt-S~NO • S f;BSENCE THROUGH MASS IVE SPREADS OF_ POINTED ; CARTOONS, EDITORIALS AND ARTICLES. MODERATES SOUGHT /TO MAINTAIN MOMENTUM ·OF ANTI-PKI CAMPAIGN BY SERIES •' OF SPEECHES BY MODERATE LEADERS OVER WEEKENDCSALEH, . NASUTION, RUSLAN ABDULGANI, RELIGIOUS MIN ZUHRI>. LATER IN WEEK, MODER ATES PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED FORM AT ION OF "BODY TO SUPPORT SUKARNOISM" WITH ROSTER OF ANTI- , PKI EJ)lTORS AS LEADERSHIP. MODERATES FOLLOWED WITH. NEW "SUKARNOISM ' YOUTH MOVEMENT." COMMIES PROMPI'L Y LABELED THESE .. : SUKARNOISM GROUPS AS COUNTER•REVOLUT IONARY BODIES 1 HYPOCRIT !CALLY MISUSING PRESIDENT'S NAME TO COVER-UP 1 ANT I-SUKARNO, ANT I·PKI ACT IVIT lESe ALTHOUGH SUKARNO TOOK NO IMMEDIATE .STEPS TOWARD EITHER SUPPRESSION OR CONCILIATION OF MODERATES, HE DID 'HINT AT SUPPORT FOR L:~TI!3'!' ;.:;;c:~<'f ;.Jr':.>: .... !.:~:~\J:f:~D ~-;u:21-d'D!~I09 t:IDn AND YANI iJt.fi N0 r:·.:·:,Jy:;(;:,n.'. :_ ..... :·.'.:: 'd:::TH Hntis:LF /.;S :t~JO L.------·-·· -·-- -·--·.-· ,------co:r;~·l '.~;,,J." .. ' 1m !Ty AND FORCE Of . \ ,.~~'it . 1 -- r·10DSE1;TE ;.:cu;'lTERCfFENSIVE. NOW SUFF ICIENTl. Y GREA'i THt\T ~ IT Ii3 DOUB': ?UL tJHE:THER SUPPRt:SSION POSSIBLE.. lF MODERf-\TES D:~cISIVEL Y DEFEA.fED 9 HOWEVER, PKI CGULD Ht.NE vIRT1J1'.'LL y CLEM~ ROAD ro POW'SR. ~--(p4 -f!pptiNo 5-57-6 ..Affli- ~ ~lirm 6-,Jh/iri;J ~UhV WEEK' s .DEVELOPMENT"S' PROVIDED I ' _) II ·INCREASING. EVIDENCE THAT NQN .... C~MUNIST COAI.ITION. ''': (-- DESIGNED TO CHECK AND EVENTUALLY ELIMINATE PERVASIVE . · . .l PKI INFLUENCE IN ~ox.' I!?. GATHER~NG :sr~ENGTH AND ~OMENT\Jtl .. { MIN TRADE ADAM MALIK, WHO: IS .ffiINCIPAL· ENGINEER' . ·,. .· i AND MANAGER' OF COAL.IT ION ~OLD AMS ~ov 19 THAT PRES . . . SUKAmJO NOW REALI~'ED BREA TH 6rMrJOtMm~ SUPPORT .~ .:· "AND WAS EXPRESSINC? TACIT ENCOURAGEMENT.,"Al..THOUGH HE · · I, HAD· BEEN INITIALLY. INCLINED' AGAINST.COALITION. MALIK·:· · )}.._ I ADbt.o· PRESIDENT• WHEN ASSURED MOSLEM NAHOLAT.UL Ul.ANA - /~ 1·,FULLY.BEHIND MOViMENT, APPROVED MIN':REL.IGlON ZUCHRI•s ·' DEClSlON TO_ UNDERr·AKE SPEAKING.:/fOUR; SOON lN EAST AND CENTRAL JAVA ON COAL IT ION• S $EKA1.F/- . ·._ ----·. _,._-.- ....__ - __ ·--··~·· .~I. __: •. _.~· ;~'._, ... ·-' , ' '..,.'~!~_,,_,·~. ',__'._ ...~"-L ~'----__..!__------MALIK COO SIDERED FIRST DEP?R IM IN SUBANDRIO AMONG. .. : . · ,;;_ · 1· 'COALITION•$ MOST DANGEROUS OPPONENTS AND SAID .TIMING OF, ". , NON-COMMUNIST EFFORTS HAD BEEN JUST RICUtt AS "IN . - : ANOTHER SIX MONTHS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN TOO LATE•"· MALIK · • -·~ELIEVEDI COAT ITT NOW r'oo. STRONG TO :BE sTOPPED BY :ANY- . ' ' . ',THING SHORT' OF ESCALAT-ION -OF MALAYS.IANDISPUTE~ .SIM-Il.. A~~.- ! ASSESSMENT OF ANT I-COMMUNIST COALlT"lON Al.SO GIVEN AMB \ ~y ASST DEAN or INFLUENT lAl..· ECON· f ACULTY OF UNIVERSITY .._ t,•. ~F I~.K~NESIA. , , _ . ..: -'.>. :,' '·.- .:". : ~-. ,;) .· ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF .GEN YAN! TOLD AMB MoVEM£NT · . · .. ,i ': !,) HAD ARMY'S SYMPATHY AND SUPPORT ALTHOUGH IT. WOUL.D NOT '1 . JOIN FRONT LINE. YANI SAID SUKAR'NO .NOT OPPOSED TO ~•MOVEMENT AND IMPLIED PRES WOULD WU.COME INCREASED .... ~ OPPOSITION TO ?Kl. YANI NOTED IM PORT ANT: ASPEpT . OF . ,.. -· ~·MOVEMENT. WAS ITS JAVANESE ORIGIN AND POJNtEO Ol!i' THAT 1 \ STRON·G ANT I-PKI REACT ION WAS. CENTERED IN TERR IT.ORY · ",REGARDED AS PKI STRONGHOLD. ' EIGHT NON-COMMUNIST LABOR FEDERATIONS HAVE BANDED . TOGETHER TO PROV IDE UNDERCOVER SUPPORT FOR ANT I •CCJt'JM UNI ST MOVEMENT. SECGEN OF 1..EADING NON-COMMUNIST FEDERATION... '-·· GASBIINDO NOTED WITH ENTHUSIASM THAT NON·COMMUNIS'l' ' . .- UNION s FOR FIRST T !ME IN RECEITT YE Aas NOW READY TO. COOPERATE CLOSELY IN COM BATT ING COMMUNIST SOBSI •. , · ., J NON-COMMUNIST. STUDENT GROUPS HAVE Al.SO FORMED._·,_;;:...~ .... '// t 'UMBRELLA ORGANIZATION UNDtR ~SUKARNOISM" BANNER. IN-. ·: '. 'MEDAN,, qURABAJA, MAKAS_SAR~ ANtl-: .. POS~lBl.,Y .OT11f;R,:,~J'l:;JtS.• , 1 .t '.: · · · · \ _:, ,- .:.. ,:1 , • _.f°j' · , .~',·,. :"<:'·/ . -; ·':(~(;;·:--:' .:'.'': >;;.,. ·· ·., \""1 ::,i''<~f~, ·•, \ ·,)·~F·tr --~------,.._ ___ ·---· --.. -· ·- 2. SUl<°ARNOISM DEBATE SHARPENS. i PROPONENTS OF "BODY TO SUPPORT SUKARNOISM" CSEE ITEM 1) , .. . CONTINUED TO ZERO IN ON PKI IN PRESS SATTL.E,· DRAWING · ~-I LEFTIST.COUNTERFIRE. AUTHOR OF SUKARNOISM AR!ICI.:ES W"H!CH f CURRENTLY APPEARING IN MODER.tiTE PRESS . · 0 · . I STATED HIS WRITINGS AIMED AT THOSE INFLUENCED BY 'M!OTHER .' . IDEOLOGY'" AND THUS UNABLE EASILY UNDERSTAND SUKARNO S. ~~~ER._, I. DOCTRINE. COrv!MUNISTS AND ALLIES REPLIED THAT TRUE :Ji.~ i SUKARNOISM IS MARXISM ADAPfED. ·TO INDONESIA. THESE WORDS REPEATED IN DECI..ARAT IO~ BY PNI CONGRESS IN BANDUNG, WHERE_,_. PARTY".S __ . ____ GENERAL.....__...., ______-- -· ---·--·-----··- -· _ .. -· ~--- ·CHAIRMAN AL.I .SASTROAMIDJOJO ALSO BELABORED SUKARNO ISM •.. ONLY OFF,ICIAL COMMENT ON POLt:MICS CAME FROM MININFO AC}~ ADI WHO IN GREET ING NEW MODERATE NEWSPAPE·R GELORA INDONESIA REPEATEv FIRST DEPPRIMIN SUBANDRio··s . ' WARN ING THAT PRESIDENT 'S WR IT ING NEED NO INTERPRETER 41 ·· · ACHMADI FURTHER WARNED THAT CONFLICTS AND POLEMICS ARISING FROM IND IV ID UAL INTERPRET AT IONS COULD END ANGER . · : SUKARNO'S TEACHINGS AND INDONE~IAN REV.Ol..UT ION ITSE~~ p(.)-.jE~~ :i IN APPARENT EFFORT SEi LIM ITS ON DEBATE ATTYGEN . ·, ·~'._·· ~ ·SUSPENDED PUBLICATION .MODERATE DAILY REVOLUSIONER AN "ncfi1~,>} .PRQ ... COMM UNIST BI~T ANG '! IMUR ALLEGEDLY FOR THEIR . ·. · . EXCESSES IN POLEM res. SOME OF' P.EVOL USIONER "! $ STAFF ' AND REPORTEDl. Y ITS POLICY RESURRECI'EO IN NEW NEWSPAPER GELORA INDONESIA WHICH APPEARED NOV 17, L.E~S THAN WEEK , . ,· :· AFTER SUSPENSION DECRE.E. GELORA D ISCLAn1ED. CONNECT IONS . . i WITH BODY TO SUPPORT SUKARNOISM Al.THOUGH ns MASTHEAP ' \·· ' · CARRIE·p SL.OGAN. "ECHO .QF ·SUKARNO ISM," AND ADAM- M AL.IK . DENIED ITS ALLEGED CONN.EC! ION WITH DEFUNCT REVOL.USIONER. ·: ' APPARENTL-Y TO REINS! ATt PRESS BALANCE UPSET: BY GE1.0RA 'S · .... APPEARANCE, GOVT LIF.TEI)j"BAN ON BINTANG TIMUR WHICH . . RESUMEDSUK RNOISM PUBLICATION .. GROUP ...... NO~, .... ,...... 1l ITH · .... FRONTAL. ,...... )\'tTACl 2 .. POLEMIS5 cOtJTINUE IN THJE:IR CONTINUING PRtSS BATTLE wI TH COMMUN I ST3 AND ALL I ES, SUKARNO f STS HEARTENED nus WEEK BY RELIGIOUS SP[ECHES CONNECTED WITH MOSLEM HOLIDAY (M::>HAMr.£D 1S ASCDJS I Cil'O .. SUKARNO'S ASCCNS I ON DAY REMARKS GI VEN BANNER HEAD LINES LY Ai\T 1-cOMf1:1u;\~ I ST PRESS WHO PART I CULARL y PLEASED BY PRES IDCNT 'S SIJ.T;::MtNT THJ,T NAT f ONS AAE GOO 1 S CREATURES AND MUST BELIE\/C l~J GOD .. i~CMAf~i\S BY N'J LEADER SJAJCHU THAT PEOPLE: WHO PO NOT B~:L I :vr: IN cc:n CANI JOT BE TRUL y FAITHFUL TO PANT JAS I LA ALSO DRtw LO:JD APF"ll..'JSf:: FROM SUKARNO I ST PR.ESS. :t:'t:S'.,.~ ~ .,,.··· ,--~- i NAT I o~~Al Fi~ :JNT u::J!.l;f:RS ENTERk:D POLEM I cs TH Is WEEK IN FIRST ~ ! FUilLIC 1:•,J;)ICArJnN OF SIGNIFICANT SPLIT JN THfS BOOY, WHfCH '. DESl8iJFD FDSTi:'.F? NATIONAL UNITY_, FR0NT 1S VIC£ CHAIRMEN DJUHARTONO A~-:) GtN.. su~:(~ AT I BOTH /DDRESStD SOKS I -SPONSORED SW< ARNO I SM RALLY (W.EF:: ·.BPS ACCEPTED PRf:Sl'DENT-~$ DECLARATIO,..i WITH F0RCED SMILE EXPLAINING IT HAPPY DISBAND NOA' ThA_;_ KOTRAR ASSUMING ITS TASK OF PROPAGATING PRESIDENT'S PHl~OSOPHY. NON-COMM.JNIST NEWSPAPERS.DROPPED SUKARNOISM COPY BUT CONTINUED TO ATTACK COM-4UNISTS FOR POISONING NATIONAL UNITY WITH VITRIOLIC I' . ATTACKS ON THE IR OPPONENTS. FOR HEADS. PK I CALLED FOR BAN OF SUKARNO I SM NEWSPAPERS AND PURGE OF SUKARNOIST JOURNALISTS. PKI AND ITS FRONT GROUPS HAVE IFOCUSED THEIR ATTACK IN PARTICULAR ON MJRBA PARTY. IN WHAT APPEAR \ ED TO BE PARALLEL MOVE THEY EVEN DESPATCHED DELEGATION TO THIRD \a:FRlMfN JALEH AND TRADEMIN MALIK TO COt'-IPLAIN ABOUT ECONOMIC 1 SITUATION. PNI STUDENT AFFILIATE WENT STEP FURTHER THAN PKI • WITH DEMAND THAT MINISTERS CONNECTED WITH SUKARNOISM MOVE:tvENT ~ER~ BE ttRETOOLED. n AT END OF REPORT I NG PER IOD PURGES l IM I TED TO ~ ,.~·~ EXPULSION TWELVE SUKARONIST EDITORS AND JOURNALISTS FROM ::_~ DJAKARTA BRANCH OF INDONESIAN JOURNALISl ASSOCIATION. !llllW'-~ - COMMENT:// SUi