THE INDONESIA SITUATION (REPORT #52 - AS OF 4:00 P.M. EST)
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November 5, 1965
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Current Intelligence
5 November 1965
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
The Indonesia Situation
(Report #52 - As o4:00 P.M. EST)
1. The army claims that it is closing in on PKI boss Aidit
in his Central Java hiding place. It claims that 5,000 troops
have him surrounded and that he has little chance of escape..
Aidit's secretary is reported to have been captured yesterday,
2. The military still remains uneasy about the situation in
Central Java, Loyal troops are said to be stretched too thin to
be able to do much in the rural areas where the PKI is strong.
Tight restrictions on travel and assembly have been imposed and
all inhabitants have been required to carry registration cards
as well as any proof of party affiliation.
3.
the army estimates a. 70 percent of the population in the Solo
area northeast of Jogjakarta are Communists. 25X1
casualties in this area have run into the hundreds--largely
Moslem Youth elements killed by the PKI and PKI members killed
by the army. A Moslem organization also paints a gloomy picture
of the area, noting that religious elements remain under PKI 25X1
pressure and that a considerable number of the troops normally
stationed in the region have Communist sympathies.
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5. The Indonesian press continues to carry reports of the
ouster of leftists from various government ministries. The
Minister of Mining, himself a leftist, is reported to have fired
a deputy minister and 10 other officials, while the ministry of
estates has purged 116 persons and the ministry of tourism five.
Wholesale dismissals of suspected PKI sympathizers on Djakarta
faculties has apparently led to curtailment of courses at
several universities. In North Sumatra some 750 officials are
said to have been suspended and some 200 workers arrested on
US-owned rubber estates alone.
6. The army is encouraged by the response of the population
in North Sumatra to its anti-PKI campaign. It feels that the
support it now can count on from the populace more than offsets
the paramilitary potential of the PKI in the region. The army
is said to hold 3,.000 PKI prisoners in North Sumatra, with
hundreds of others having been killed. The military feels that
the back of the PKI strength in the area has now been broken
and mopping-up operations--which may take as much as five months--
are now in order.
7. Defense Minister Nasution'and army commander Suhart.o are
now said to be more confident of their ability to get Sukarno to
ban the PKI. Nasution feels that the longer the present anti-
PKI campaign continues the harder it will be to reverse, and
that Sukarno will find it hard to resist the "united" will of the
army, navy, marines and police without risk of a major crisis.
9. Communist China has formally protested the mob attack
on its consulate in Medan on 2 November. The Chinese, according
to NCNA,claim that this "outrageous attack" was organized by
government and military authorities.
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