INDONESIA PICTURE CLEARER Rightist army coup being attempted } Whatever happened in the first | Tevolt in Indonesia, Sept. 30, the onesian Army is now engaged th full scale coup d’etat. Cheered on by the prime minis- ler of Malaysia and the U.S. State partment, and acting in defi- ae Of the expressed policy of Tesident Sukarno and the Indo- "sian cabinet, the generals have fc control of Jakarta and er cities. They are carrying out a cam- Pain to crush the Left and trade ion movement. Without author- ation, the Army is arresting d executing left wingers, The “fense minister has seized In- Ohesia’s news agency Antara. ! the areas under its control Re army is attempting to whip _ an anti-communist hysteria, Sing for this purpose funerals Army officers killed in the Mung revolt, and the killing of | * five-year-old daughter of de- ee minister Abdul Haris Sution, ape Ses pais is a country where the °mmunist party claims 3.5 mil- i Members, and where—until © army takeover — anti-com- punism was declared to be sub- *tsion by President Sukarno, : erm his first broadcast after a army moved into Jakarta to down the revolt led by a Col. Pain President Sukarno called National unity, and absolved ~ Communist party of Indo- ®sia (PKI) and the Indonesian bi Force from any responsi- ‘~Y in the first revolt. : ADVERTISEMENT 4 The Last Words | of Riel ‘| Rig ee verse rendering of Louis 8 final address to the court, Rie for the 80th anniversary of 8 execution in Regina, as adapt- by John Robert Colombo, man- ae editor of Tamarack Review of me pearing in the Autumn issue BC, he Maxist Quarterly. Single 8 Py 50c, available at 44 Stafford » Toronto 3. | Economic Reforms | in the USSR way full text of speeches given by Uy - Kosygin, Soviet premier, and Cor Brezhnev, first secretary of the Une munist Party of the Soviet ea On the real meaning of the abe now under way in the So- bein, mony: They challenge claims ty. .© Made that the USSR is “re- nly US to capitalism”. Available at Yin Information Bulletin No. 58, in local bookshop or 44 Staf- St., Toronto 3, 16 cents. Inside the U.S.A. Today flea . ding American Communists in Cia}, Major articles deal with.the so- iggy “CONOMic, political and military th; * in the U.S.A. Contributors to ’ edit Pecial World Marxist Reivew Hayy t,(October, 1965) include Gus Y, p_ 4. Winston, C. Lightfoot and §, ft. Available at 44 Stafford tore °ronto 3, or your local book- » 35 cents. Leader of the rightist military coup attempted in Indonesia is Defence Minister Ab- dul Haris Nasution (left). Nasution, who was wounded in events of Sept. 30 is shown being supported by an aide as he reads a eulogy to six slain army gen- erals. The funeral of the generals was used by the Army to whip up anti-Commun- ist hysteria cimed at the entire people's movement. Many acts of violence have taken place against trade unions, youth, womens and peasant organizations. He also absolved them of blame for the deaths of seven Indo- nesian Army officers including five generals, one of them Chief of staff Achmad Yani, a leading anti-communist. When the cabinet met, first on Monday, Oct. 4, and then the following day, it denounced the Untung revolt, but called for an investigation of its cause, Since Air Force Commander Omar Dhani, Foreign Minister Suban- drio, and the Communists Moh- hamed Lukman and Nijoto all ‘attended these meetings, andSub- andrio acted as spokesman for the cabinet, it was clear the government did not hold either the PKI or the air force responsible, It meant also that the policy of NASAKOM, unity between thena- tionalist, religious and commun- ist elements in the Indonesian . government, was still in effect, Dr, Subandrio is a leading sup- porter of that policy. The army ignored the Govern- ment, Since the forces of Major- General Suharto entered Jakarta Oct. 1, radio Jakarta, controlled by the army has conducted a steady stream of anti-commun- ist propaganda, Suharto himself went on the air soon after Sukarno explicitly to blame the air force for thedeaths ~ of the army officers, The army also banned the PKI newspaper Harian Rakjat, accusing it of supporting the Untung revolt, The PKI issued a statement Thursday after the revolt denying any involvement in it and call- ing for support for the Presi- dent’s plea for national unity. The party characterized the first revolt as “an internal affair of the army.” Despite the position of the Gov=- ernment and the denials of the PKI, the army—finding itself in control of the capital—moved to crush the Left. On Friday, Oct. 8, the army cordoned off the area around the headquarters of the Communist party and allowed a mob to burn it as well as the home of party head, D. N. Aidit. The mobs, said by the press to ~pbe Moslem students, then rode in trucks past the U.S. Embassy shouting, “Long live America,” The same day, radio Jakarta re- ported a rally of 500,000 in Ja- karta’s main stadium. The army-dominated radio re- ported a demand sent to Sukarno from the rally, allegedly in the name of 44 parties and several labor and cultural organizations. The demand called for the ban- ning of the PKI, the arrest of the on to reach our target by Nov. 15! cabinet ministers the army ac- cuses of involvement in the Un- tung revolt, and “revenge” for the deaths of the generals. It is clear the army is using its control of Jakarta to mobilize rightist forces to oppose Su- karno’s insistence that the politi- cal solution to the crisis be left to the Government, Over that weekend events took an even more ominous turn when the army moved to arrest Com- munists with as many as 2,000 having been seized by Saturday. There were widespread reports in Jakarta, said the London Times (Oct. 9), that the army was exe- cuting its prisoners, That the actions of the Indo- nesian Right, so long on the de- fensive, was not just limited to reprisals against those it claimed were involved in the abortive revolt, was indicated by reports from Sumatra, There, reported the London Daily Telegraph (Oct, 9), Moslem organizations seized the head- quarters of the trade union or- ganization Sobsi, largest of Indo- nesia’s trade unions, Oct. 10 the Army clamped a ‘curfew over northern Sumatra, because, said radio Malaysia, mob violence by anti-communist forces was “getting out of hand.” On the same day in Jakarta itself the Sobsi trade union fed- eration headquarters was looted and burned as was the head- quarters of the People’s Youth affiliated with the PKI, STILL 935 10 GO! 125 subs came in last week. We need 500 a week from now The scope and intensity of these developments gave credence to the original charge by the Untung rebels that the army high com- mand had been planning a coup with the help of the U.S, Central Intelligence Agency. Washington had kept up its as- sociation with the Indonesian military commanders long after Sukarno’s foreign policy became completely hostile to U.S, poli- cies in Asia, reports Max Frank- el in The New York Times (Oct. 11. Aid to the army continued © until a year ago. Now, Frankel says, the State Department thinks Indonesia’s good relations with China can be “disrupted” and U.S, economic penetration of Indonesia can be=- gin again, The army high command, led by Gen, Abdul Haris Nasution, the defense minister, officially supported the “crush Malaysia” policy before the Sept, 30 events. Yet in a broadcast from Kuala Lampur, the Malaysian capital, Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman identified himself with the army action in Indo- nesia, “TI think the tide is turning in our favor,” Rahman said, “As if in answer to our prayers, the Indonesian people have now rea- lized that the real enemy of Indo- nesia is not Western imperialists or Malaysia, but rather the Communists,” —People’s World, San Francisco PT‘s FELLERS — TIMES RUNNIN, N 77 aR 1500 — ees YOUR - SUB 30TH ANNIVERSARY CIRCULATION DRIVE October 29, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 11 YET?