COMMUNISTS EMERGING AS SUKARNO HEIRS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100040013-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: August 27, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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Party Leaders Mold
Policies to Satisfy
President's Aims
This is the last of three dis-
patches on Indonesia by a cor-
respondent of The New York
Tinges who recently visited the
Sorttltea.st Asian archipelago.
By SEYMOUR TOPPING
Special to The New York Times
HONG KONG, Aug. 26-In
grade ground of Jakarta, more
than 150,000 Indonesians
cheered, snarled and laughed In
obedient response to the Inde-
pendence Day speech of Presi-
dent Sukarno. Suddenly there
was a hush as the Great Leader
of the Revolution, the Beloved
Immortal, spoke for the first
The 64-year-old President ha
been in failing health. No on
!listened more intently to hi
words than two men who kne
(that the -demise of the leade
would signal a struggle tha
could mean power or death fo
either of them.
A Red and a General
They were D. N. Aidit, chair
man of the. Indonesian Commu
nist party and second mos
powerful political figure in th
country, and his opponent
Gen. Abdul Haris Nasution
Defense Minister and leader o
,the right-wing generals wh
control the army.
,control President Sukarno sal
In his Independence Day specs
,on Aug. 17, and his actions i
.the preceding months, were di
a?ected at averting a powe
struggle that might disrup
hard-won national unity. He ap
pealed for the preservation o
unity according to his principl
known as Nasakom, a blendin
of nationalist, Islamic an
I Communist forces.
But the army knew unmis
takably that it was also th
Communist power.
World Red Rift Cited
tive machinery-demonstrated,Egest that itwas~the ideological
for example, by his Cabinet of; split between China and the
104 ministers. These flaws have~'Soviet Union that convinced
tended to obscure the achieve-him that Indonesia's Commit-
ments of the President in fa-'nism could be relied upon as
thering an ideology and a mys-l1a party loyal first to the nation
tique that have held together rather than to an international
3,000 widely scattered islands. ,,.~.., ~ .~.;....... ,had held the party suspect pect be-
The those of Mr. Aidit,i
The development of this ids be-
lent Sukarno forrnunce it~as girt late in 1901, the Chinese-
- to affec, cue stand of the Inao-
'eaders and their Marxist-Len coding toward the creation af.l:nesian arty leadershi With;
lmist philosophy par 920's, young Mr. Suka.t?no;Other major, Asian parties, it
agetea his plllloSophy 14y?ar-'h"'''stated -toward i ekinng.
laenism, which he called "al' At the same time, the party,
?ype of Marxism-Socialismlexploited the split to assume
dapted to the Indonesian con-;greater independence. Peking,
nunity and spirit." i rolled out its best Mandarin)
Mr. Aidit, the f ommnal~!', carpet to receive Mr. Aidit,
eader, said recently: "We have leader of the third-largest Com-
ever forgotten what Sukarno nlunist party in the world,
~P~s ate in it =` YiiaR760149R00` rlu P. N. Aidit, left, chairman of the Indonesian Communist
are rivals to succeed President Sukarno, who is now 64.
r
time of the possibility of hi t ousand years," President Su- Sukarno decided to use the
you, sisters and orotners, mVl e~ il~; farhaenist state. After dis-
Irlive another thousand years.",
the evolution of Indonesia, the failed his expectations, he has
Asia. VVU? ?` discipline, the mass-organiza-
Sukaronism Is a unique state tion techniques and the corrup-
devotion at home than abroad. In recent months he has
Westerners have been preoccu pushed aside the men, even
pied more than Indonesians such revolutionary heroes as
with the quixotic and Elam-'Deputy Premier Chaerul Sa-
boyant aspect of President
karno. Su-' leh who have tried to stem
As a Government leader, he
has dismayed foreign experts
with his undisguised distaste
Moderates Worried
Time was running out no
only for the aging President be
also for the army leaders, th
right-wing Moslems and th
scattered political moderate
who have helplessly and fear.
,fully observed the ascendent
ommunist movement has
de."
New Comintern Opposed
Jakarta's Communist leader
In an interview at Communist
eadquarters, Mr. Aidit, a 43-
ear old organization man with
E Peking and Moscow.
Mr. A'idit said he opposed the
stablishment of a world body
"I am not for a world or-t
arty had failed to settle its
ifferences with him. The Indo-'
ore reserved than the Chinesei
ommunists and has avoided
In another interview, Second
eputy Chairman Njoto, thel
pinion and criticize both
arties. We shall maintain this
ation, "If the Chinese came,
ere," he said, "all of us would,
Funds From Local Chinese
] t faRrm the Chi-~
~t9ut reliable,
Eonl3nued