Country-wide hunt for Reds in Indonesia: weapons seized (The Times of India, 11 Oktober 1965)

=== [PDF page 1] === Country-wide Hunt For Reds In Indonesia: Weapons Seized The Times of India News Service The Times of India (1861-); Oct 11, 1965; ProQuest Country-wide Hunt For Reds In Indonesia: Weapons Seized _ | “The Times of India” News Service HONG KONG, October 10. HE army-controlled Radio Jakarta warned Malaysia today that its confrontation campaign would in no way be restrained because of Indonesia’s current political problems. There appeared to be little need for the emphasis by an official spokesman on the continuance of the now twoyear-long challenge as _ Indonesian saboteurs had been busy in Singapore and Malaysia where as many as five bomb explcsions had been reported in the past week. The announcement was, however, indicative that the army was dictating policy in the new role it had assumed after stamping ‘out in a single motion both the left-wing Army revolt and the Indonesia Communist Party. APPEAL TO PEOPLE Little continued to be heard of President Sukarno since’ his call— which has gone unheeded by the army and the great mass of people—exonerating the communists and the air force of all blame for the uprising and appealing to the nation in the interests of national unity to forget the past. The army is in unquestioned control of the country with the military leadership pressing on with the organised arrest of the communist following. The radio networks in the islands broadcast appeals: all through the day calling upon the population ¢o co-operate with the military in rounding up the communists. It was suggested that information of the whereabouts of those members of the P.K.I. or its: youth and women’s wings, who had. not fallen into the army net, would be welcomed. House-to-house searches: for arms and lethal weapons are continuing. The number of arms seized till this: morning from communist possession; nas es We ow ob a boupewp Gebue Bopneor aa ee was given as 262 by an official spokes-- man over Radio Jakarta, Many of these weapons were said to be sien guns. Jakarta: Mass arrests of communists here over the week-end followed the reported discovery of arms and a transmitter in the party’s headquarters, set on fire on Friday. Army and police have given no figures but: unofficial * estimates put the total detained in the past wéek at 1,500, apart from 2,000 insurgents captured in the fighting in other parts President Sukarno returned to Jakarta yesterday from his > Holiday Palace at Bogor, 40 miles south of here, where he has been since the Tising ten days ago. A crowd of Muslims ransacked a suburban office of the communist women’s organisation, Gerwani, here yesterday, usually reliable source said taday.—Reuter, A.F.P, adds: Army paratrooper units in pursuit of fleeling ‘“counterrevolutionaries” involved in the ‘September 30 movement’ have captured 86 of them near Brebes in Central Java, the Army Strategic Command announced yesterday, Fifty-seven of them wete members of President Sukarno’s “Tjakrabira” (bodyguard), which has dissented. after its coup attempt, AIDITS HOME RANSACKED Twenty-seven who formerly belonged to an infantry leader, Col. A. Latif, Meanwhile, the. situation in. Java was gradually retuming to normal with 90 per cent. of the rebels having been rounded up authorities said, Anti-communist eleménts raided. the ‘: | Jakarta homes of PKI leader, Mr. D N. Aidit, and his deputy, Cabinet Miothers were rebets! brigade, commanded by deputy coup Indonesian army | nister and party theoretician, Mr. Njoto, on Friday, the, Muslim daily, “Mimbar Revolusi” reported today. The daily, said that the men who raided the house of Mr. Njoto had] found a bloodstained shirt. which was bullet riddled. From Mr. Njoto’s house, the angry crowd went to the house of Mr. Aidit which.was ransacked. One thousand million rupiahs were’ found in his home. « The crowd’ set fire to-a radio set, a television set, a bicycle and a motorcycle. It was.also claimed. that | valuable documents had: been dis. covered in Mr. Aidit’s home. Singapore: Ten days after ‘the abortive + coup, the situation in Indonesia continues to be a matter of. guesswork and_ speculation. Whether the country is ruled by Dr. Sukarno or his 100-man Cabinet or the powerful. army headed by Gen. Nasution, no one knows.. Telecommunications between. Jakarta: and the outside world are ‘still cut off. The genera! picture that emerges -when scraps of information are pieced together is a mosaic of contradictions. The facts appear to be: 1. The coup has flopped. Despite scattered fighting the situation is under control,. 2. Dr. Sukarno remains President, his Ministers are also in. office, ‘although it is. doubtful whether _ they: are exercising their. powers, 3. Anger is mounting against PKI, 4, The Communist Party, which is capable of organising equally mam- | tnoth ‘demonstrations or even an: ‘armled insurrection against the Government, has so far held its hand.—A,F.P. Kuala Lumpur; Radio Malaysia to-. day. quoted Radio. Jakarta. as “saying ‘the hunt was still on for Indonesian. D.| coup leader, Col, Untong, and aniother \Tebel officer, Col. Latiff. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.