NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DAILY CABLE

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0001393488
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: June 22, 2015
• Document Release Date: November 20, 2009
• Case Number: F-2006-00081
• Publication Date: February 3, 1978

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 INDONESIA: Situation Report
The Indonesian Government is taking further
steps to hinder opposition activities, although the atmosphere
in Jakarta has been generally calm since the government
hut
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down major newspapers and temporarily detained a few hundred
university students. Indonesian authorities may have released
most of the students but continue to hold their leaders. Stu-
dent travel is restricted and Z of student coun-
cils have been banned. re also pressing
university rectors to ose students 10a
o were arrested,
a move that the rectors have so far resisted.
Given the restrictions. students will have
s on a nation-
wide basis, but scattered local demonstrations are continuing.
greater iff culty coordinating their activitie
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zne ban on newspapers soon.1
warned the foreign press th~sw its coverage of
opposition groups or face possible closure of local offices.
The new, harder line may be due to the influence of Ali Murtopo,
President Suharto's political troubleshooter. Murtopo is said
to want a longer ban to avoid further damage to the President's
reputation that could stem from recently publicized allegations
of corruption.
support in other quarters for. his anticipated reelectionenexte
month. By announcing his intention to refurbish the grave of
former President Sukarno, he is wooing old-guard supporters of
Sukarno who still wield considerable influence in parts of Java.
At the same time, Suharto
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had dismissed but who still have a following within the Army
to Suharto. At the installation of the Army's new Chief of Staff
this week many major Army leaders appeared in an apparent show
of support for the President--including two men whom Suharto
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