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...real center of Communist resistance was among the fertile paddies around inactive but smoking Mount Merapi in teeming central Java, where economic dissatisfaction is helped by one of the world's densest populations. Somewhere in a lOO-sq.-mi. triangle centering on Mount Merapi, Indonesia's Red Boss D. N. Aidit was said to be hiding out with ten or eleven cohorts in the P.K.I.'s stoutest stronghold: the party claims some 1,000,000 members, 30% of its total, among the poverty stricken peasants in the region surrounding the sprawling city of Solo. In the month...
...rampant anti-Communism and hatred of Aidit's Peking masters abounded throughout Indonesia last week. A mob of 800 stormed the Chinese-run Republika University in the capital, wrecked and burned a two-story building, then invaded the dormitory with knives and submachine guns. Chinese shops in East Java were ransacked, and a newspaper editorial ranted ferociously against the "CIA"-meaning the "Chinese Intelligence Agency...
...blend of nationalism, religion and Communism on which political control in Indonesia has long been balanced. Part of the salvage plan: formation of a "new" Communist Party based on nationalism and Indonesian self-interest rather than Peking's influence. Aidit, who was believed still hiding out in Middle Java, was branded "a renegade and an outlaw." He would be purged, and the new party would lean toward the Soviet orbit rather than the Chinese. "The President will settle the upheaval," assured a Sukarno aide with typical Indonesian optimism. "If you eliminate the kom from our Nasakom then the balance...
...been heard from, though, is Lieut. Colonel Untung, the obscure battalion commander in Sukarno's palace guard who launched the abortive revolt. Untung, whose name in Indonesian means "lucky," pushed nomenclature too far: riding on a bus also named Lucky, Untung was recognized near the Middle Java town of Semarang by two soldiers. Untung vaulted from the bus window but was nabbed by fellow passengers, who took him for a pickpocket and beat him severely before surrendering him to the soldiers. At week's end Untung was back in Djakarta for interrogation and probably ultimate execution...
...forward units were moving toward the center of the city and exchanging fire with Untung's palace guards. By midnight, Radio Indonesia had fallen to the attackers, and by the next morning, Untung and his men were in full flight. Their possible destination: a stronghold in central Java, where a colonel of the Diponegoro Division had already announced his support of the coup...