U.S. MAGAZINES BURNED BY INDONESIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000402250001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 16, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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? DJAKARTA, Aug. 15?Po-
lice lit a bonfire of American
' magazines, phonograph rec-
ords and comic books last
night as Indonesia cranked
up for its 20th anniversary of
independence Tuesday.
Some 22,000 copies of Life,
Newsweek and Playboy
burned along with rock 'n'
roll records as speakers con-
demned attempts ,to "under-
mine Indonesian identity in
culture." Associated Press es-
timated the crowd at the Dja-
karta police headquarters at
only 200.
A Communist New China
News Agency dispatch said
the burning was accompanied
,by "the strains of the popular
'song, 'Crush our Enemies, the
;U.& and Britain."
Chinese, Foreign Minister
Chen Yi and his North Vietna-
mese counterpart, Nguyen
Duy Trinh, arrived' for the
celebrations, which actually
mark the collapse of Japanese
control and the beginning of
revolution against the Dutch.
President Sukarno has been
in partial seclusion since Aug.
5, preparing' his Tuesday
speech.
One subject expected to be
touched on is relations with
newly independent Singapore,
formerly part of the Malaysian
Federation which Sukarno has
vowed to crush. ,
The government reportedly
is split on whether to recognize
the new neighboring state.
Singapore traded heavily with
Indonesia until formation of
Malaysia.
Another speech topic may
well be U.S.,relations, current-
by Indonesia
ly at a low. Indonesian con-
tributions to the strain include
expulsion of the Peace Corps,
withdrawal from the United
Nations, and frequent assaults
upon the U.S. embassy and
consulates. When the new Am-
bassador, Marshall Green, ar-
rived he was obliged to drive
from the airport along streets
plastered with signs saying
"Green Stay Away."
On the way to present cre-
dentials, Gavin Young of the
London Observer has reported.
Marshall had to drive up a
one-way street to avoid a mob,
and then was given a sharp
lecture by Sukarno.
Young writes of other bi-
zarre turns involving Indo-
nesia's strong Communist
Party: ?
The secretary general of the
Seventh Day Adventist Church
of, Indonesia, .has accused
Ve?
American Adventist pastors of
working hand in hand with
the CIA. The fact that Ameri-
can?Adventist pastors have
been voluntarily replacing
themselves with Indonesian
Adventists has been de-
nounced by the Communists
as a subtle plot to continue
neocolonialist subversion in a
new guise.
Recently, too, the Commu-
nists went so far as to accuse
a member of the US Embassy
of trying to smuggle three tons
of sarong material out of the
country. This plot was "ex-
posed" when a large crate
marked "personal effects" fell
on to a quay and split open.
A fair quantity of incense also
dropped out of the crate,
added the Communist People's,
Daily, as though till; clinched .
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