THE PROBLEM OF THE RESTORATION OF LAW AND ORDER

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002700600010-9
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 1998
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 24, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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The Republican Government will be able to restore peace and order to the
areas recently occupied by the Dutch should these areas be returned to
Republican control, However, the Republic must first be furnished with
the necessary materials or must be given assurance bast these materials
will be forthcoming, This is a reasonable request since at t.ue present
time the Dutch have taken absoulutely everythi -, from typewriters to
locomotives, obviously with the intention of making it impossible for
the Republic to function in the event that the Republican Government is
again restored to power., Their intention cannot be otherwise,
2. The safest method for the Republic would be to obtain these materials
directly from abroad since, in thkt case, the Republic would not depend
on the Dutch, who would certainly betray the Repuolic as they have done
before,
3, The restoration of the Republic is the only way at present by which an
end can be put to the trouble and insecurity which has been prevalent
throughout the interior of Java and Sumatra since the second Dutch,
militar.;r action. Actually, security and order and peace exist only in
the four large cities of Batavia, Bandung, emarang and, vurabaja. In
other places such as Jbgjakarta, Purwokerto, Bandjarnegara, Priangan,
Tjirebon, Banten, Sukabumi, Surakarta, and Pekalongan, conditions are
insecuro. Sabotage to enterprises, railroads, and public works are
common occurrences. Everyt;iing points to an increase in these public
disturbances; the increase is in ratio to trig desperately cruel way in
which the Dutch react to them,
4, The Dutch Government will be able to maintain itself only if it has an
armed force large. enough to maintain approximately 20 even in each de -
in Java, This would amount to a total armed strength of 480,000 men in
Java alone, not including the necessary police force.
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Another method which could be used by the dutch Government to maintain
itself in Java would be to surround every desa and each enterprise or
vital industrT with barbed awe., This would require 2,000,000 trwjck-
loads of barbed tire mate.ri 1, for Java alone.
The Dutch are naking believe they are fighting against B"terrorist&"J,
while actually they are fighting against the entire population; other-
wise, how can one explain the fact that not less than 15 hectares of
rice mere cut down in West Ketanggungan? Elsewhere, in Furcvokerto,
three locomotives, coupled together, rode out of the roundhouse in an
eastern direct:'. -on'. without a machinist, fireman, etc., aboard. These
are two of the hundreds of cases of sabotage that occur daily,
Many Df the eat;; tes have to close, and the number of these este.-~es which
are f:rced to cease operations is cert-,in to increase daily,
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