DJAKARTA “CLOSED”

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29067, 2 December 1959, Page 14

DJAKARTA “CLOSED”

No Foreigners May Enter

(N.Z. Press Association-Copyright) t DJAKARTA, November 30. Djakarta, the Indonesian • capital, was yesterday “closed” ■ under martial law to all r foreigners wanting to live here r temporarily or permanently. ' But an Army spokesman told reporters no decision had yet been taken about foreigners , already settled in the city. ; Djakarta .has thus become the third Indonesian city to be closed *0 th e country's alien population. tt] e hulk of which are citizens ■I of Communist China. West Javas capital of Bandung was declared closed to new } foreign settlers last week in the wake of an Army order to Communist Chinese traders to leave th e viUages and settle in towns. Medan, the capital of North bumatra and Indonesia’s third biggest city, was declared closed last year. Observers say these Army are aimed at tightening restrictions on the movement of Chinese in the republic. I ennt? 1011 } 3^837 they are apparently not affected by the military decree closing” Djakarta. rhe position of foreign businessmen living outside the capita] was not known immediately, but the decree exempts foreigners newly arriving in Indonesia; Aliens are forbidden to take thL r ? sidenc ? in Djakarta under the decree issued this week-end w- , L ! euten ant-Colonel Umar Wirahad, Kusumah, of the city s military garrison, tn” “r^! Ve i lS reasons as being order? PUblk law and

ant Prfrf, w spokesman, Lieutensaid nn y ?Jfi d^ ang D i a j aa tmadja, vetbPPn d + efi “ lte measures had rfnii >” ■ taken on aliens currently living m Djakarta. He recalled a year-old regulawish S t lU i Valid ' that aliens who mhtr r leave the ca prtal for other Indonesian areas must first get police permission. He said aliens were permitted to enter Djakarta on courtesy visits, to see relatives, to go sightseeing or on pleasure trips. The term “closed down” in Indonesian martial law means foreigners may not enter for the PU su° se a hing up residence. The latest decree on Djakarta was generally held to be aimed at Chinese with Peking passports who form the vast bulk of the republic’s alien population. The Army is ordering these Chinese businessmen to live in certain specified areas which in West Java now excludes the two chief centres of Djakarta and Bandung.