ch237 DE RUMJEM 392 5460129 ZNY 0661262 FM AMCONSUL MEDAN um T0 DJAKARTA 557 No4- CN 183A DATE DECEMBER 6 1965 1125 ACTION INFO CHRON INFO WASHDC 78 STATE GRNC AMB DCM IAL as DEC 65 RF EOON POL eg I FOLLOWING VIRTUAL DESTRUCTION OF PKI AND ITS FAR LEFT ALLIES ON SUMATRA ARMY IMPLEMENTING VARIETY OF MEASURES AIMED AT STRENGTHENING ITS GRIP ON ALL ASPECTS POLITICAL LIFE THIS ISLAND ARMY NOW IN PROCESS OF OPENLY ENGINEERING FORMATION OF MOSLEM UMBRELLA ORGANIZATION TO EMBRACE AND CONTROL ALL MOSLEM ORGANIZATIONS CIVIL SERVICE COWED BY DRASTIC PURGES AND TOP OFFICIALS CLEARLY TAKING ORDERS FROM ARMY ACTING GOVERNOR BY HIS OWN ACCOUNT CHOSEN BY GENERAL MOKOGINTA FOR THE JOB CONSULATE HAS DIRECTLY OBSERVED THAT HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS NOW UNDER ARMY CONTROL IN DAILY OPERATIONS CFN 357 78 DECLASSIFIED I - 1 Li PAGE TWO RUMJEM 592 I I A AT DISTRICT LEVEL MILITARY COMMANDERS RECENTLY BECAME HEADS OF DISTRICT GOVERNING BODIES THE SECOND LEVEL PANTJA TUNGGALS BY ORDER OF PROVINCIAL COMMANDER ARMY HAS ACTED TO CONTROL YOUTH AT EARLY AGE BY BANNING ALL STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS IN SUMATRAN SCHOOLS BELOW UNIVERSITY LEVEL WHILE AT SAME TIME MAKING MEMBERSHIP IN ARMY CONTROLLED PRAMUKA COMPULSORY FOR ALL STUDENTS BETWEEN AGES 8 AND 15 IN ADDITION TO EXTENSIVE PURGE AND NAMING ARMY OFFICER AS SEC- RETARY NORTH SUMATRA NATIONAL FRONT HAS BEEN PUBLICLY LECTURED AND CRITICIZED BY PROVINCIAL COMMANDER HIS COMMENTS MAKE IT CLEAR THAT FRONT WILL NOW BECOME ARMY INSTRUMENT FOR CONTROLLING PARTIES AND MASS ORGANIZATIONS PRESS FIRMLY UNDER ARMY DIRECTION FOLLOWING EXTENSIVE PURGE OF PWI JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION WHICH NOW HEADED IN NORTH SUMATRA BY ARMY OFFICER MOKOGINTA HAS PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED THAT IN ADDITION TO PERMISSION FROM MINISTRY INFORMATION NEWSPAPERS MUST HAVE HIS APPROVAL PRIOR TO PUBLICATION ARMY ALSO BROADENING AND EXTENDING ITS PHYSICAL CONTROL OF BOTH CITIES AND BY ARMING SELECTED HANSIP UNITS A MEASURE WHICH AMOUNTS TO ARMY VERSION OF PKI PROPOSAL TO ARM WORKERS AND PEASANTS WHEN IMPLEMENTED THIS MEASURE WILL EXTEND DIRECT MILITARY CHAIN 0F COMMAND INTO EVERY VILLAGE ON SUMATRA CFN 8 15 CI PAGE THREE RUMJEM 592 I I A 2 ALL-SUMATRA COMMANDER GENERAL MOKOGINTA AND OTHER TOP OFFICERS HERE HAVZ MADE IT CLEAR ON SEVERAL OCCASSIONS THAT THEY BELIEVE POLITICAL PARTIES SHOULD BE ELIMINATED FROM INDONESIAN POLITICAL LIFE ABOVE MEASURES CERTAINLY TEND TO VEAKEN PARTIES ON THIS ISLAND BEFORE ABORTIVE COUP MOKOGINTA ONCE TOLD ME HE ENVISAGES PROPER INDONESIAN POLITICAL ORGANIZATION AS BASED ON FUNCTIONAL GROUPS RATHER THAN PARTIES ARMY MOVES ALSO TEND IN THAT DIRECTION WITH SIGNIFICANT ADDITIONAL FACTOR 0F ARMY CONTROL OVER ALL SUCH GROUPS 3 ALTHOUGH MOKOGINTA HAS SAID THAT ARMY IS NOT RPT NOT ENGAGED IN SETTING UP PERMANENT MILITARY REGIME IT IS DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE ARMY WILL AT SOME POINT IN FUTURE WILLINGLY RELINGUISH ITS NOW SWEEPING POWERS 4 TIME I ASSUME MANY FACTIONS HERE ARE NOT PLEASED BY PROSPECT 0F PERMANENT ARMY REGIME WHICH HAROLY LIKELY BE VERY DEMOCRATIC THERE IS NO RPT No APPARENT OPPOSITION MANY APPEAR To SEE ARMY REGIME As ONLY ALTERNATIVE TO COMMUNIST REGIME AND THEY PREFER ARMY OTHERS ARE SIMPLY HAITING To SEE ARMY REGIME WILL BE LIKE 5 REGARDLESS 0F ULTIMATE POPULAR REACTION T0 ARMY AS POLITICAL MASTER THIS IT IS UNLIKELY THAT ARMY CAN BE EFFECTIVELY PAGE FOUR RUMJEM 592 I I A CHALLENGED ON THE GROUND IN SUMATRA WITH EXCEPTION OF ARMY PKI HAD EFFECTIVELY DESTROYED OR EMASCULATED VIRTUALLY ALL POLITICAL FO- RCES HERE PRIOR TO COUP LONG INACTIVE AND DISCREDITED MASJUMI CERTAINLY IN NO RPT N0 POSITION RESIST ARMY DOMINATION ONE GROUP CAPABLE OF AT LEAST PASSIVE RESISTANCE IS PNI WHICH STILL COMMANDS LARGE FOLLOWING HOWEVER PNI SPLIT AND UNDER HEAVY SUSPICION OF COMMUNIST INFILTRATION ARMY SOURCES HAVE OPENLY EXPRESSED CONCERN ABOUT PNI SHELTERING SECRET PKI MEMBERS AND LEADERS OF ARMY- CONTROLLED YOUTH GROUPS HAVE TOLD CONSULATE THAT THEY INTEND PURGE PNI OR DESTROY IT THUS WHILE PNI MAY CAUSE ARMY SOME DIFFICULTIES IT IS UNLIKELY TO PRESENT SERIOUS OR EFFECTIVE RESISTANCE TO ARMY REGIME 6 IN SHORT SUMATRA IS RAPDILY BECOMING AN ARMY FIEF EVENTS IN DJAKARTA COULD OF COURSE QUICKLY ALTER THIS DEVELOPING PATTERN BUT EVEN SHARP REVERSES FOR NASUTION AND SUHARTO IN THEIR STRUGGLE WITH PALACE WOULD NOT NECESSARILY HAVE ANY GREAT IMPACT ON MILITARY CONTROL OF SUMATRA GP-s -1 HEAVNER                     National Security Archive    Suite 701  Gelman Library  The George Washington University    2130 H Street  NW  Washington  D C  20037    Phone  202 994‐7000  Fax  202 994‐7005  nsarchiv@gwu edu