BLACK MARKET ACTIVITIES IN BATAVIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002500640010-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 31, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CflUNTF~tY Indonesia
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Black Market Activities in Batavia
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l., Ou 6 February 1949, it t~s reported to the Qreemdelingen en Inlichtinga
Dienet-that Mario Beechen, the Italian proprietor of Cher Mario, posassaed
a bundle of 'N.~,? ~.eh pound notes which he kept in his o1R! room inside has
restaurant, It arse aLeo reported that HAN Sian Ki,n, managing director of
the Mascotte Trading Company, kept povnde and dollars in his house at
Lemban~reg Noo 15, Batavia-C, Uther inames quoted iualuded,Asaomull,
managing director of 6'~assiaa~u].l Aesamul]. & Company, Pasarbaru t~1a, Batavia-C;
B o ~ielwani, Gang Dumas, behind Paaarbarn; Indar Singh; a:mer of Aga
,Sports, Paaaxbaru AToo 2; Bo Harumal-1, Gang 3 U Sys ~8
Klint$i; and a number of reatauranta at Tand3ungpriok.
20 Ce Ap Goldberg, of the ~Saacotte. Trading Company, is reportedly titsatxsing
Indonesians and Europeans suspected of being Comauniat ringleadersa
Australian pounds were found in his posaesaiona Clarenoe K. Carnpbes3.s also
pays his assn in Australian curreraQy, according to assistants of the
Indonesian Conu:tuniat Iytohananed Ya?ino Most of the contiacatsd notes were
Dntch,of denominations Pram f loOQ to f 100.OQ. Thu$ tar, the police havae
eonfiacated approximately U, S, ~?25oU0
A secret conference arcs held itt police headquarters on 10 February 19490
Attending the conference mare: Let Class Police Coram3ssioner Elartnssn,
arho ~,$ to become head of the Criminal Investigation l~iviaion (CID) on
1 btarah 1949; 1st Clans Police Cormnisaioner J, van der Yallt, present
head of the CID; and the section heads of Tand~ungpriok harbor, GlAdok,
Pasarbaru, Tttriahabang, Kramat and 5enen, or sections one through four
and six r8spectiv+ely4
loo The oonference eras conve~e~ed to discoed steps to be taken against the
Indian, Chinese, Dutch, Indonesian and Italian black marketeera in various
sections of Batavia. A decision was made to raid Pasarbaru, Pan`t~oran,
Toko Tiga, Pintu~Ket3i1, Tand~ungpriok, Tanahabang and Seven on 11
February 1949, at 8 a?ma
5. Armed police. raided Toko Badnbay ( Frcrabay Shop) and several Chinese
stores in Pasarbaru, arrested the ro8ming brokers behind Toko Populair,
and made arrests i.n Pant~ora,n, Toko Tiga, and Pinar-~Ket3i3.a Italistsa at
Citadelarsg, and Indonesians and Chinese in Tand~ungpriok wets also arrestedo
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6. United States, Straits, Hong SOng aad Chinese d~ollare, English arui
Australian pounds, Indian ntpeea, pesos atxi Dutch {Iietherlanda) gu3.Idera
were seiaced. Several gold beta, and approximately one ton of Netherlands
~:ast Indies silver and copper coins, travel7.era' cheques, and bl.a+ck
exchange bi11s payable to bearers abroad sere also aeisedo
7,. ,The Indian Consul General has protested the raid made an the BorabaJr
Store, No reply has-been received tram the Dutch authoritieso Forty-
fiva money ~ochangers ~rere questioned, but none ties arrssteda Ths central
black markets teenaged by Asaumuli, at Javat~eg I'b, 99, Batavia-rC, uaa nct
disturbed.
8~ On or about 2O February 191x9, the CriminAl Investigation Diviaioa~
reported the prosecution of the following persona for possessing
foreign bsnknatea:
G~ Lengy~en
Suspect for dissemination of Ctmarmsnist
propaganda, and tar gathering
information for the Soviet Union
L~ Chung Chinese antique dealer on R-i3swijk-
~traat
T, Vo Nanykram Sandhi-Indian b].a~ck market exchange
broker an Lean de Kismet.
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C_ote~ente The A ralian, Clarence H, Campbell, 38 suspected
of being a Coinn-unist. September 191+8, reported that C~apbell
had been empovrered by the Republic to act as its Trade Commissioner is
Australia. November 1948, reported that. Campbell was Amin
S,~arifudin's political adviser, and that they communicated through
secret correspondence,,
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