INDONESIA: DISSOLUTION OF KOLAGA -- ALERT THEATRE COMMAND -- FORMED BY SUKARNO TO CRUSH MALAYSIA.

Record ID: 496348

  • Title: INDONESIA: DISSOLUTION OF KOLAGA -- ALERT THEATRE COMMAND -- FORMED BY SUKARNO TO CRUSH MALAYSIA.
  • Date: 2nd June 1967
  • Summary: 1. LS ARMOURED CARS AND TROOPS 0.05 2. CU SOLDIERS 0.08 3. LS SUHARTO IN JEEP REVIEWS TROOPS (TWO SHOTS) 0.23 4. CU SOLDIERS 0.24 5. MS THREE COMMANDERS OF KOLAGA 0.27 6. MS WIVES OF KILLED SOLDIERS 0.29 7. CU SUHARTO 0.35 8. CU (PAN) WIDOWS RECEIVING AWARDS FROM SUHARTO (TWO SHOTS) 0.43 9. MS DIPLOMATIC CORDS 0.47 10. LS HELICOPTERS IN FLIGHT 0.50 11. LS JET BOMBERS IN FLIGHT 0.56 12. MS GIRLS MARCHPAST (TWO SHOTS) 1.06 13. MS TROOPS MARCHPAST 1.16 14. MLS SUHARTO ON SALUTING DAIS 1.20 15. MS ARMOURED CARS (TWO SHOTS) 1.32 Initials CAR/VS/MK/CA/Y/A/CHM Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 17th June 1967 13:00
  • Keywords:
  • Location: DJAKARTA, INDONESIA
  • Country: Indonesia
  • Reuters ID: LVA2QSP6AV5OMZTZEGOAWCHOAC0V
  • Story Text: KOLAGA -- ALERT THEATRE COMMAND -- FORMED BY OUSTED PRESIDENT SUKARNO IN 1963 TO CRUSH MALAYSIA, WAS OFFICIALLY DISBANDED TODAY (FRIDAY). THE DISSOLUTION OF THE COMMAND, MADE UP OF THE INDONESIAN ARMED FORCES, WAS MARKED BY A BIG MILITARY PARADE IN DJAKARTA'S NATIONAL SQUARE.

    TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SOLDIERS, SAILORS AND AIRMEN, WHO MADE UP THE KOLAGA COMMAND, ARE TO BE DISPERSED THROUGHOUT THE ARMED FORCES.

    ACTING PRESIDENT GENERAL SUHARTO SAID THAT THE END OF THE THREE-YEAR LONG CONFRONTATION AGAINST MALAYSIA WAS NOT CAPITULATION BUT A COMPROMISE.

    HE SAID KOLAGA TOOK THE ROLE OF A DETERRENT FORCE AFTER FOREIGN POLICY BLUNDERS BY PRESIDENT SUKARNO'S REGIME HAD LED TO THE COLLAPSE OF THE COUNTRY'S POLITICAL STRENGTH IN 1965.

    FOUR WOMEN, WHOSE HUSBANDS WERE KILLED DURING CONFRONTATION, WERE PRESENTED AWARDS BY GENERAL SUHARTO.

    RUSSIAN-MADE HELICOPTERS AND JET BOMBERS FLEW OVERHEAD. THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY A MARCHPAST OF KOLAGA MEMBERS, ARMOURED CARS AND AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLES.
  • Copyright Holder: REUTERS
  • Copyright Notice: (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2015. Open For Restrictions - http://about.reuters.com/fulllegal.asp
  • Usage Terms/Restrictions: None
Register