DUTCH PLAN FOR INDONESIA

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25298, 25 September 1947, Page 7

DUTCH PLAN FOR INDONESIA

NEW ORGANOx WOK IN JAVA ANNOUNCEMENT' 3MM AT THE HAQtfc (N2 Press Association—Copyright) THE HAGUE. SeptenaberJS. The Netherlands Gki vemmem *_4hnGunced in Parliament that the Hfet Indies Government woußi both de facto and de jure awiqrw the occupied areas of Western apd Eastern Java. A central ofeMniMwn would be formed in the near fnftire and would be developed into ah interim Federal Government with a new Constitution. The Dutch Commission-Ganeod, which last year concluded an fimw ment with the Indonesian Repohfic will be abolished but the LieutenJht Governor-General of the Bast Ibdfes (Dr. van Mook) will get the asaiAarice' of a special body to share the responsibility. The Netherlands Prime Minister (Dr. L. J. M. Beel), announcing tfie pfons. said that the total area of Indhnlesia under Dutch control contained sufficient economic resources to sUppiv the whole population. Consolidation bad already been begun A mixed poitee force, mainly Indonesian, would he responsible for security. The Dutch Government faced confidently the result of thfe UnSed Nations investigation, said Dr- RWfrl He promised his Government's fulTcooperation.

U.N. COMMITTEE ON INDONESIA

AUSTRALIAN MEMBER APPOINTED

(Rec. 9 p.m.) CANBERRA, Sept 24. Judge Kirby, of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court, will be the Auwfralian representative on the committee of three to be set Up by the United Nations Security Council to deal with the Dutch-Indonesian dispute. “I hope the committee will meet at Singapore at an early date," said the Pffcne Minister (Mr Chifley). “Observation of the cease fire order of the Security Council cannot be maintained Indefinitely and much depends on an early commencement of negotiations for a permanent settlement.”