Speech by Suwardiningsih (CC PKI), Harian Rakjat, 14 January 1964 (JPRS translation)

Title: JPRS (1964) - Speech by Suwardiningsih, CC PKI, Harian Rakjat 14 Jan 1964 [HathiTrust coo.31924082071592 seq 181-186] Source: HathiTrust Digital Library (full view), page OCR text via text-only view Volume: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924082071592 Date retrieved: 2026-10-19 Note: page-image download returned 403 (HathiTrust image downloads blocked); OCR text only. Translations on South and East Asia, no.52-65 1964. | HathiTrust Digital Library View this item in the Book Viewer Use of this online version is subject to all U.S. copyright laws. Please do not save or redistribute this file. For questions or comments, contact HathiTrust.org at [email protected] You have one page at a time access to this item. Authenticated members of HathiTrust institutions who have a print disability may have full-text access to this item. Login to determine if you have access and see all volumes that are available when searching. For more information, see HathiTrust Accessibility. Page at a time access to this item is also available via our fully-styled HathiTrust interface. Full Bibliographic Information Title Translations on South and East Asia, no.52-65 1964. Published Arlington, Va.,U.S. Joint Publications Research Service; For sale by the National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Va. Description 27 cm. Rights Public Domain, Google-digitized. Permanent URL https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924082071592 Page #181 THE POLITICAL REPORT OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDONESIA [Following is a translation of a speech by Suwardiningsih, CCPKI member, in the Indonesian-language daily, Harian Rakjat, 14 January 1964, p. 3.] The Political Report by Comrade Chairman during the Second Plenary Session of the CCPKI (Central Comite Partai Komunis Indonesia; Indonesian Communist Party Central Committee) has completely answered the important and urgent questions on national, international, as well as the party's problems. The Report dealt with the: 1. International situation and the Indonesian position in the New Emerging Forces. 2. International situation, the GKI (Gerakan Komunis Internasional; International Communist Movement) and the necessary support by Indonesia for strengthening the GKI and confronting revisionism. 3. Party reconstruction and party responsibility in expediting the victory of the revolution. The discussion on the people's suffering in the present economic difficulties has truly brought forward the laborers' fate, thoughts, and concerns. The laborer's income hardly buys food for ten days. Indone- -19- Translations on South and East Asia, no.52-65 1964. | HathiTrust Digital Library View this item in the Book Viewer Use of this online version is subject to all U.S. copyright laws. Please do not save or redistribute this file. For questions or comments, contact HathiTrust.org at [email protected] You have one page at a time access to this item. Authenticated members of HathiTrust institutions who have a print disability may have full-text access to this item. Login to determine if you have access and see all volumes that are available when searching. For more information, see HathiTrust Accessibility. Page at a time access to this item is also available via our fully-styled HathiTrust interface. Full Bibliographic Information Title Translations on South and East Asia, no.52-65 1964. Published Arlington, Va.,U.S. Joint Publications Research Service; For sale by the National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Va. Description 27 cm. Rights Public Domain, Google-digitized. Permanent URL https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924082071592 Page #182 sian laborers for a long time have survived one debt after another. This has become worse due to the "26 May Regulations." They are considered lucky if they can borrow money from money lenders after selling all they have. It can be imagined how the life of those who do not have a regular income the peasants and small businessmen will be. Their lives are uncertain. One day they may eat, the next day they may not. The "26 May Regulations" have tightened their belts even faster. This revolution is the peasants' revolution. Our revolution will not succeed without peasant participation. The significance of the motto: "Every cadre should integrate himself with the peasants" is now even more clear. It means that by identifying ourselves with the poorest peasants and having a deeper understanding of our goals, we will be able to stir the majority of the villagers to fight for something they have never owned before. Although we have been convinced of our revolutionary aims, there still are some branches which have not established proper relations with the peasant class. Therefore actions against landlordism are still being limited. These shortcomings lead to the establishment of inexperienced committees. Therefore what was described by the Political Report as the village movement not being intensive and extensive enough is accurate. The problem of power is a matter of its balance. They way to have a favorable balance of power is to work more efficiently with the people, the villagers in particular. Because our country consists of islands along the equator, there are many villages scattered along the bays fishermen's villages. -20- Translations on South and East Asia, no.52-65 1964. | HathiTrust Digital Library View this item in the Book Viewer Use of this online version is subject to all U.S. copyright laws. Please do not save or redistribute this file. For questions or comments, contact HathiTrust.org at [email protected] You have one page at a time access to this item. Authenticated members of HathiTrust institutions who have a print disability may have full-text access to this item. Login to determine if you have access and see all volumes that are available when searching. For more information, see HathiTrust Accessibility. Page at a time access to this item is also available via our fully-styled HathiTrust interface. Full Bibliographic Information Title Translations on South and East Asia, no.52-65 1964. Published Arlington, Va.,U.S. Joint Publications Research Service; For sale by the National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Va. Description 27 cm. Rights Public Domain, Google-digitized. Permanent URL https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924082071592 Page #183 Indonesian fishermen suffer the same fate as the peasants did under the feudal system. This class of fishermen is again divided into the middle class, lower class, and fishermen-laborer class. Although there are some cooperatives among the fishermen, these cooperatives are still in the hands of the middle-men, money lenders, or rich fishermen. These fishermen are important in producing food products fish. They are important in securing safety of the country and in maintaining transportation on the sea as well as on the rivers. And yet they are backward and miserable. Only a few branches have organized them into labor unions or cooperatives. The reason why we have failed to organize all the fishermen is because we have not thoroughly investigated the fishermen's situation. The First KONFERNAS (Konferensi Nasional; National Conference) of Peasants, held in April 1959, discussed ways of appealing to fishermen to join the revolution and the party. It also concluded that there were three main cooperative activities, namely, credit, sale and purchase, and production cooperatives. It is necessary to organize a fishermen's union to oppose the middle-men's oppression. The Communists have the duty to establish cooperatives as well as to improve the ones already established. The Second KONFERNAS of Peasants, held in July 1961, affirmed the First KONFERNAS' resolutions. In addition, it urged the Government to propose a bill for fish sharecropping which would benefit fishermen, a bill for loans, social security and compensation for accidents, and prevention of abuses by the employees. The activities in the villages, therefore, should also include fishermen. It is necessary to concentrate all party activities which deal with peasant organizations so that we can unite the majority of the villagers -21- Translations on South and East Asia, no.52-65 1964. | HathiTrust Digital Library View this item in the Book Viewer Use of this online version is subject to all U.S. copyright laws. Please do not save or redistribute this file. For questions or comments, contact HathiTrust.org at [email protected] You have one page at a time access to this item. Authenticated members of HathiTrust institutions who have a print disability may have full-text access to this item. Login to determine if you have access and see all volumes that are available when searching. For more information, see HathiTrust Accessibility. Page at a time access to this item is also available via our fully-styled HathiTrust interface. Full Bibliographic Information Title Translations on South and East Asia, no.52-65 1964. Published Arlington, Va.,U.S. Joint Publications Research Service; For sale by the National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Va. Description 27 cm. Rights Public Domain, Google-digitized. Permanent URL https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924082071592 Page #184 against landlords. We will herewith give meaning to one of the revolutionary theories the combination of three struggles. The Political Report by Comrade Chairman has elaborated upon the interrelationships between transportation, telecommunications, agriculture, etc. All these are related to the villages and are a part of the slogan: "To improve the cooperation between the people and the Armed Forces." In order to achieve this policy it is necessary to change the balance of power and lead the people towards victory. Another factor mentioned in the Political Report by Comrade Chairman is the opposition against revisionism. Although this is not an acute problem, it still is a latent one. In general, revisionism is leaning towards the right. It was once mentioned that the PKI dangerously leaned too far to the left. In this relatively peaceful situation in which the party enjoys respect, many cadres are assigned official and semi-official functions. To prevent the tendency towards non-proletarianism, it is necessary to indoctrinate them on the party's ideology and hold discussions on the party's politics concerning specific matters in a given time. In addition to this, the majority of the party members come from the small bourgeois class. Therefore they often have bourgeois mentality. To prevent this it is necessary to continuously educate them on proletarianism and Marxism-Leninism. But it is not impossible to find revisionist ideas in the party. This is what is meant by the latent danger to the party. Therefore it is necessary for us to be on the alert for such danger. 10,711 CSO: 3570-S -22- Translations on South and East Asia, no.52-65 1964. | HathiTrust Digital Library View this item in the Book Viewer Use of this online version is subject to all U.S. copyright laws. Please do not save or redistribute this file. For questions or comments, contact HathiTrust.org at [email protected] You have one page at a time access to this item. Authenticated members of HathiTrust institutions who have a print disability may have full-text access to this item. Login to determine if you have access and see all volumes that are available when searching. For more information, see HathiTrust Accessibility. Page at a time access to this item is also available via our fully-styled HathiTrust interface. Full Bibliographic Information Title Translations on South and East Asia, no.52-65 1964. Published Arlington, Va.,U.S. Joint Publications Research Service; For sale by the National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Va. Description 27 cm. Rights Public Domain, Google-digitized. Permanent URL https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924082071592 Page #185 LET THE PROBLEMS OF ASIA BE SOLVED BY ASIA -Indonesia- [ Following is a translation of an article that appeared in the Foreign Affairs column, written by the Foreign Affairs Editor, in the Indonesianlanguage newspaper Harian Rakjat (The People's Daily), Monday, January 27, 1964, page 3.] President Sukarno has presented an idea for the solution of Asian problems. Only the Asian peoples themselves have the right and are able to solve their own problems, that is the problems of Asia. All patriots fully support Bung Karno's idea. Now, all Asians as free people realize and understand that if it was not for imperialism and colonialism, the safety and development of the Asian people would not be endangered. And presently imperialism is the only source that disrupts and endangers the safety and peace of Asia. Aggressive forces such as SEATO and ANZUS, which are equipped by the British Far Eastern Fleet and the U. S. Seventh Fleet, along with their occupational forces in Thailand, Malaya, South Vietnam, Laos, the Philippines, and North Borneo, are all tools used by the -23- Translations on South and East Asia, no.52-65 1964. | HathiTrust Digital Library View this item in the Book Viewer Use of this online version is subject to all U.S. copyright laws. Please do not save or redistribute this file. For questions or comments, contact HathiTrust.org at [email protected] You have one page at a time access to this item. Authenticated members of HathiTrust institutions who have a print disability may have full-text access to this item. Login to determine if you have access and see all volumes that are available when searching. For more information, see HathiTrust Accessibility. Page at a time access to this item is also available via our fully-styled HathiTrust interface. Full Bibliographic Information Title Translations on South and East Asia, no.52-65 1964. Published Arlington, Va.,U.S. Joint Publications Research Service; For sale by the National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Va. Description 27 cm. Rights Public Domain, Google-digitized. Permanent URL https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924082071592 Page #186 non-sian nations for aggression and intervention in forcing their authority upon Asian countries. This imperialist intervention makes it impossible for Asian peoples to hold peaceful and friendly discussions among themselves. This imperialist intervention prevents the realization of Bung Karno's idea. We know that Malaysia is a new form of the British colonial authority over its colonial areas in the Far East. The concept that recognizes the existence of "Malaysia as an addition to Asia" can be true only if this concept is based on the true desire of the people of this area for it to be so. But how can the people freely and voluntarily assert their will before the British imperialists are kicked out of this area? Bung Karno explained in his speech to the Philippine veterans that imperialism has to be kicked out. There is no other way! This means the British imperialists in the colonial area of the Far East must go. Robert Kennedy said that he agreed with Bung Karno's idea, though Bung Karno's idea is clearly anti-imperialist, while the U. S., which he represents, is an imperialist country which not only does not want to leave Asia alone, but on the contrary wants to control Asia. How hypocritical is the chatter of Robert Kennedy, who represents the U. S. imperialists. And what is even more hypocritical is -24-