CONFIDENT t L Miauot 3 1966 Conditiono and Attitudeo ln laat Nuaatengpra Hr -t rox an American anthropologl at mo baa 11 -d for tho p t year and a half on the lal md of ioti near 'fimor lD ut haatnaaara and hio wit recatly caDad at the ld any OD their way to Oxford Uniwroit J in lnglad Hr l oz 1atec1 bJ hia wife the reporting officer an mmwally perceptiw md cobareDt ccount of political nta ed attitudeo in laat Buutenggara 111llo 8Cllll9 of llr JPox 1 a obaervatl0118 apply only to ldt Wuaatenggara hio account alm be resardecl in mmy respecto a kaleidoscope of nento lD proviDClal lndonena durtna the ldt tumltucus _ Bio obanTationa oa the 8Uppnoaion of the PD the ldlltnao and local attitudeo toward the lam' prob t ly are -i Pllcablo to 1IUCb of the country fooo Aftermath of the S Ptember 30 Havwnt ID lotl mere the _ tualiy U V'8Ci commmtat influence Vd atron g onlJ OD the waatern ead of the lalud A few weko befon Septemer 30 a JnaneM com-mlllt n_ lukimo arrived from Djakarta to take charge of the local It lo widely beliftlKI that luld no brought aome kind of lutructlou for a local follow-up to blpaDdlna denlopmnta in DJ urta md the AJ S1 ha nportedl 7 dlacoftncl a U at of lnteaded ntl-cca oat llt victlu in the area oarc A -11 a dettdmmt uriwd tn lotl on17 in 1aauary or hbnar to f Dftatipto Geat pu ctf vitioo but 11m1ted their pUDl lw ctiou to eacutf OD of luktrno and the local PD leader oa Iott Iba 1i 1 wJ then withdrew but nturmd ln llld-Karch 'lhto ft olt nmlted ln the uac utlon in lotl of bet'WMD 40 ad SO local Iott cc enloto plua another 30 cca--mfoto froa the 11BarbJ lelmd lroup ' - ot Dnasro each 12 Jro mt lcally declaanfiecl CONfiWii IAL tC1 1Ullartem ao - OECLASSlfiEom1 Authority i NNO '7 2 1 8 1 66 tl Mftzeat 2 A-6 5 Djakarta of law A thtr 1 a S olt occurncl in J'una nnltlng in the eDCUtloa of or tw eddltlonal ru r who he earlier - ' captun but h S _ t1ppnbended la the lntert a o-Yi altoo e eclally the woad Karch ftdt aa- rio too feel ins of great tenaion tn the population end n wn rife of uacutiona far ta exceoo of tboH that Mw 1ly occurnd o _ of vlde11pra r Ulllago re rife throuabout lat atoaora ta fact llr rox beaTd ou ootom ml eldoaary bom ThDr report th t 30 000 people h S Ma eucuted la thot lol -1 liDce be felt that thlo fipn wu hto roz trneled through 1'111Dr ta11dq to oo people pood ble and alllO NUght infomatlon on meutf ou ta other lolmdo of 9ueatngua Be feelo that approzimatel1 800 per8GU or at a Nxl nw 1 000 perw wn -cuted ta Tt mor lualbo Al or Iott law md in other wller talad9 coq riolna all of last lluaatenaara other than non llr l'ox bed DO reliele lnformatton 01l aacutioaa ta ftona mtch bouner bu ral timeo the population of all the other lalwla of t llusatenggara combiMcl Hr hx oaid that the ID better o tolllh lD Alar than eom of the otbn lolando mcl that 10 5 co oioto wre oocated the lidch vu a higher proportion of the populatioa thm elHWben Ba aald that the top eoa-miot lD t _atenaara Toblaa t-1 l11U a Ueoi 1o otill allw and being held at the prl8Clll in l'Pp-a llul vu llr t Secntal'J of the laot lluoatenggara CDI o a s 1 ' er of the l'D Ceatral Co-dttee 6ttltudes 'lowrd the Armzo 'l'ho taaga of the IDdonasim _ bu decU md r UcallJ lD la It Jlusatenggara o1Dce Sept mer 30 be area to larplJ Gartotla ad conta D9 a dlvaro uaortment of non-Javmue peoploo knit milto that lato the area olace ept - r 30 are compoNd of lloolw frUll Jna and b o 11 md to the local population to be a fonlp oceupotf oa fora '1'he Ar81 bae 91 parently dou little to ewreome thto lnltlal liotU ty ad h acted ta a heavy-handed MDDft' wltlJGK meh nsarct fol' local MUibilS tloo According te llr hx tbo a la amptaoua f eaeto dq after dq at the upeaM of the local populatloa raaltllla apeclally in a 8Ubstmtial depletion ta the lolmd'o 1lwstock goat papulatloR In the p'l'a fincid capltal of Kupang conupt oo eatbated to have lDCreand tm-fold ainee Sept- r 30 a the Anti 11hlcb 1- r f t natrdnto mm other J O'Mr factoro wa lG PlY re lo 8nera1 ahtploads of rlee from abroed thd wn mlo_ I a Sup- wat lato u bllldo md cauld be purdiaMd bJ the popalattoa ODlJ at w f ltat priceo It nee periodo ot f-1o ocaur cs te time la dtffenat enaa the coatr t bet the blab lt- toa Joooo 111 lttar forceo a tba local population urked Ille ArmJ olt to lotl ta lfarc b that took the 11ve1 of ome 70 or 80 ea of Co wu ollowd for ample a period la jpril of cauict ro he o1o lrn1zr o1 A A-65 Djakarta soo Towmd tort umooo Til ior Hr Woo eald then vu COD8lder t lo atloa befon SeptaDber SO llbclut a U kely lndomelm iDYMioa of tortugueM ftmr vf thill the not 11 dietmt futun that loo vlthill the llr rox empbdi S that thlo lov-lnel 11peculation 8 GI junior offl cero and enlieted mn ad equivalent layero of the ci t llan bun ucracJ rather thm lltat to by n9P0Uiblo Hid or officialo feoplo in IDdoneaim Timor pnerally regard fortuguea Ti- r a ld D4 of paradiM 1 'hia view I a baHd primarily on tM lack of r pod8 la IDdomaian Tillor ad a conalder t lo - mt of agglina betwen the t'10 Goodo brouaJit ill froa rortu Timr not only include tuperior relOD8 of ac h evaryciq naceaaitioo aoap but alao included cattle wbic h for 11oma naeoll are plentifUl 1D the Jort ugueN half of the islmd but DOt lJ1 the lndonealan half e American Jdl t Harbor 'J 'be harbor dewlopm8Dt Dear Dap-na being conatruct9d under all A 1J coatrst b7 - anerica fira va8 Dearly canpleted 1ibeD Hro I'm left Al though the project wae greatly admired b7 the local inhabitanto becmo of the auperior quality of the mated tio 8Dd facilltloo lt voulcl prob l ly aot be uaablo oinco w the harbor located aeveral ad lea frca too and h s naither drinking water nor adequate road comwctiOD9 vlth Sup-a tndqpesla atteq to to drill wllo had failed due to a lack of Um equipment and little h 1 been done to buf lcl a 8dequate ro 1 to the city Both of theae taaka wn outside the acope of the AID project but tha IDdwaiaa Govermmit bad not beea able to fulfill f to aide of the baraain Hr Woz obNrwicl that prior to leptnber 30 it Wd vf d91J bellnacl bJ the lndo'Wda population that tho port vaa intended to be a atasiDa bue i r aD lavaaloD of fortug11eN Timor o Hro fox VU ct acribina popular attitudeo and not Daceooarily official 1ntent1on8o be himself mph aiud Other folitic l Attitudeo Mr z eaid tUt froteatmt groups in But liwtAto1saara h-1 a linaartaa noatalata for tho old IMS or Republic of the South Holucca 9 that had rejected acceaalon to the Indonaai11D Republic la 1950 Altbo11p thlo Witt mt for eeparatlon froaa lndoneota ad UDlon 111 th tJut a luccu vu a underlying attitude there no organised effort to puraue the a1M u fa u Jae kaav rrotaatanto are conceno trate in the weotem parto of lndooaaia ' Umor and in Iotto lncidalltal 17 o ella the anaa uarer to 1ortugneM Timor are CathoU c lox conaidered the euteftl Catholic people mar 1ortuaueo Timor to be hlahl1 lntellipnt 1iiilo tho central arouP mt ch aleo oroteatant waa rather backward md tup l d Ill 91tlte of the liaaartna 1111 mpatby o Protest mto in aae lluaato paradodullJ tmded to cooperate cloee11 with tho ra bee of daeir evez1tdlq tlaar ef m la1-lc cate 'Iba Catholico tead t to conparata vltb tbe partlae _ ta ral o n mda mre reconciled oo1o to lndOMd aD Datioull- tap 4 1 -6 S Djakarta AlthO' gb the Tlmno hinterland io ani t ian Supang ltolf lo COlllpO_ larplJ of Joaneo bure91Cratoo 1mot of wham are either pmdoal J or DaiU na111 llDolo ' be n l ta atlll 8troq J Yanao n other non-C rlattan groupo am la x'o oplalOD1 waa eV'8ll more radical thm the rn befon leptembar JO fDx l ell S th tho na80D for tbia p waa that the JU h-1 c ouc loualy cho- i to infiltrate ito more radical ro into the r n 11o the re Jl a Pd macl1 lne badled u a more rout m and bureaucratic operatioa 'l'b l'NI h ua not been lr d s nce the eptt llber 30 affair and 1ta organization re'lairul largely intact including ito more r U cal leaderoo be uid lllocel 3n90 Js In discuaslng the area in 1110ra general tnaa 1 Fox ea d that tha large tsl-4 of Buatta vu dry and wry lightly populat ed ftmr too lo not particularly fertile 8Dd ha a relatlwly low population deulty noreo la the fertile haaily populated ad dneloped laland la lat 'luaateaggara Although it b thr tt H the popalation of all tbe net of the pnri nce lt could 8Upp0rt a mch hiahn' populatloD yet ID Dutch timo noreo laaecl behind tho rut of the la educatioll ad popul ioD 111o but thlo trancl b more thm bean nvaned ta ncmt JMI'o oot oot oot ooo                     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