INDONESIA: DJAKARTA: DEMONSTRATORS ATTACK COMMUNIST HOMES AND SET FIRE TO YOUTH FRONT HEADQUARTERS

Record ID: 355168

  • Title: INDONESIA: DJAKARTA: DEMONSTRATORS ATTACK COMMUNIST HOMES AND SET FIRE TO YOUTH FRONT HEADQUARTERS
  • Date: 13th October 1965
  • Summary: TUESDAY 12, 1965 1. MS DEMONSTRATORS POUR INTO THE COURTYARD OF LUKMAN'S HOUSE 0.03 2. MLS THEY ENTERING LUKMAN'S HOUSE 0.08 3. MS CHINESE COMMUNIST FLAG WITH CHINESE CHARACTERS FOUND IN THE HOUSE 0.13 4. MS FURNITURE AND HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS BEING BURNED OUTSIDE 0.22 5. MS STUDENT GIRLS TAKING PART IN DEMONSTRATION 0.26 6. M
  • Embargoed: 28th October 1965 12:00
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  • Location: DJAKARTA, INDONESIA
  • Country: Indonesia
  • Reuters ID: LVA2MWJRJYN96QFK8ZJ15DJHWD1T
  • Story Text: IN THE INDONESIAN CAPITAL, DJAKARTA, MOB VIOLENCE AGAINST THE COMMUNISTS CONTINUED AS GROUPS OF STUDENTS ??? THE STREETS ATTACKING HOUSES OF TOP RANKING COMMUNISTS. ON TUESDAY OCTOBER 12, A MOSLEM CROWD ATTACKED THE HOUSES OF INDONESIA'S SECOND AND THIRD MOST IMPORTANT COMMUNISTS. THEY ARE MR. LUKMAN, THE PARTY'S DEPUTY LEADER, AND MR. NJOTO (PRONOUNCED NYOTO), THE SECOND DEPUTY.

    AS ARMED TROOPS STOOD BY THE YOUTHS RANSACKED THE HOUSES, SMASHING WINDOWS AND HURLING ROCKS. WITHIN MINUTES TYPEWRITERS, FURNITURE AND COMMUNIST DOCUMENT WERE EITHER THROWN OR HAULED OUTSIDE AND BONFIRE LIT. STUDENTS SHRIEKING ANTI-COMMUNIST SLOGANS HELD ALOFT FLAGS FOUND INSIDE BEARING CHINESE EMBLEMS. NO ONE WAS IN THE HOUSES.

    THE NEXT MORNING (WEDNESDAY) A CROWD ASSEMBLED AT THE OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL FRONT - SEMI-GOVERNMENT AUTHORITY WHICH AMONG OTHER THINGS ORGANISE DEMONSTRATIONS IN DJAKARTA. THE CROWD, MOSTLY STUDENTS AND WORKERS CARRIED SCORES OF FLAGS AND JOINED IN CHANTS OF "CRUSH AIDIT", "CRUSH COMMUNISTS" AND "CRUSH MALAYSIA". A BRIGADIER GENERAL WHO IS ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THE NATIONAL FRONT ADDRESSED THEM AND LED THEM IN SINGING PATRIOTIC SONGS.

    THE MOBS THEN POURED OUT OF THE COMPOUND AND IN PROCESSION HEADED FOR THE YOUTH FRONT BUILDING ABOUT TWO MILES AWAY AND ONLY ABOUT FIFTY YARDS FROM MERDEKA PALACE-THE RESIDENCE OF PRESIDENT SUKARNO. THEY POURED INTO THE COURTYARD HURLING STONES AT THE BUILDING WHICH HAD BEEN EVACUATED SOME TIME BEFORE BY THE OCCUPANTS. THE MOB POURED THROUGH THE FRONT DOORWAY AND WITHIN MINUTES SHOWERS OF DOCUMENTS PORTRAITS, PHOTOGRAPHS, BOOKS AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS WERE HURLED THROUGH WINDOWS AND DOORS. THEY WERE HEAPED TOGETHER AND BURNED.

    THE SACKINGS WERE THE LATEST IN A CAMPAIGN BY MOSLEMS, WITH TACIT ARMY SUPPORT, TO DESTROY COMMUNIST HOMES AND BUSINESS PREMISES. MOSLEMS WITH ARMY SUPPORT, HAVE MOUNTED A STRONG CAMPAIGN TO GET PRESIDENT SUKARNO TO BAN THE INDONESIAN COMMUNIST PARTY.
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