Ed Foreign Service of the United States of America museum 5 3 7 6 Wing '1 Control 762A FROI-I SURABAYA RecdzDecember 22 1965 0700 ACTION NO 203 December 21 INFO P I 0 P I AME MIN ACTION DJAKARTA PRIORITY 203 INFO DEPT 53 RF 1' CON Joint SITEEP 21 $0 ATTACH 1 Security Situation Reliable source from told me POL indiscriminate killings have ceased there At same time source said Army is quietly releasing 10 to 15 prisoners to Moslems for execution Comment This is similar to situation 5 provided by source from ASBMBAGUS SITREP 20 and may be wide- spread It gives appearance that Army pleas to stop excesses are being obeyed while still allowing r for Moslems although on reduced scale to carry out their determination to wipe out here 2 Effect of Devaluation As of 1700 hours December 20 beginning December 19 rice has not been available in Surabaya markets However rice sellers are entering city with 100 or so kilos and selling whole lot to buyers with sufficient funds at 2 000 rupiah per kilo which has been price since December 15 MV Outside of Surabaya rice reportedly also difficult to get 3 Reference other commodities larger stores in Surabaya have been expect to be cleaned out of merchandise within week if not re- forced to maintain December 13 prices and owners reportedly FR supplied At same time press reports state companies and whole- salers are reluctant to sell to retailers Further according at - 571 1 press state companies are raiSing prices 10 percent on purchases 3 involving old currency and have vastly raised prices of certain it - if items 3' 3 8 3 Reports on Bali Japanese Consul who returned from Bali Action December 16 said burning of Chinese stores and shooting at Tait rt night continues Also reported that American and Japanese comunities well protected by authorities Unofficial head of Nationalist Chinese community here told me only one shop l belonging to non-Red Chinese was burned and this by errorUNLESS 0 71-9588 a a no TH REPRODUCTXON I Authority yNiLmoz FORM mm -55 ACTION COPY Ed Foreign Service of the United States at America I PAGE TWO SURABAYA 208 COKFIDJNTIAL Classi cation Control 76 2A Recd 3 According PSI source reason Governor SUTEDJA did not return to Bali from Djakarta is Army Chief Staff SUP QTO and Bali Commander Brig Gen SJAIFUDIN told himiArmy could not protect him if he went back Also according source 40 of SUTEDJA's aides in Bali Government were killed 4 Bali Chinese Request Evacuation According reliable Chinese source Bali Chinese communists sent delegation to CPR Embassy in Djakarta which requested evacuation to mainland China Embassy representative 9 replied that Indonesians for years had been tryinb unsuccessfully to deprive local Chinese of livelihood and said this not time to bive up and that they should hang on here 5 East Java NU Conference East Java Nu is evidently ignorin a advice not to pressure him In recent conference at DJOMBANG as reported in press December 17 it passed resolution calling for replacing term leftist revolution with Pantjasila revolution 1 In addition it called for purge of Gestapu from Cabinet and ban on before end of year It also took firm anti-Chinese line and called for revision of diplomatic relations with Communist China reviewing of sending students to countries sympathizing with Gestapu and revival of ban on trading activities by aliens in rural areas Comment Hard line adopted by Nu evidently aroused PNI suspicions that PSI had master- minded conference PSI source said PNI official had accused him of assisting with resolutions Source also said accusation was baseless 6 Surabaya GMNI statement Consulate A-l9 Surabaya GMNI PNI university students affiliate in statement carried in press Dec 16 sniped at and carefully disassociated itself from local chapter of Moslem dominated anti-IKI Indonesian students action committee KAMI Stated it could not JOln KAMI and reminded KAMI of 'need to prevent - nhtist counter-revolutionaries from usin crushin' ofHGestapu to disert leftist revolution to rights It added that x it approves all actions provided they do not deviate from BUHG policy to restore peace and order 7 Brawidjaja Anniversary Celebration On December 17 I attended Brawidjaja Division's 17th anniversary celebration at which Acting Commander Brig Gen SOEKARJADI spoke and Army Chief of Staff sup 1T0 umss ma Classl cahon non nus copy 15 nor ifs-412 POST ACTION COPY Pm Jam TIEHAIE 18 int Aunt ctrhiia '4 i A nylgairfb Class tcafzon Cent's 757A Peed sent writhn arranug Roth callu 10 marlin of arts- 35 hm 3 er cpainst exec taco unztioncd only once 83 this t At rece tion iollowin __ ecu-non 393- ka wal' cd over a sat to me which was certainly not Ly My Jaw of ciah'mh u Another Iattalion 111 Tent Java 31 I V cr r-r 1-i- returncd irom Sulawesi to Sumbaya At cue-rm 31 1 n A said it now has duty 01 crushin Gig-3 truss vacuum Cluux cation nun nu a not Autumn was run 3 55 POST ACTION COPY nun - 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