APPEAL TO U.N.

Press, Volume C, Issue 29635, 4 October 1961, Page 13

APPEAL TO U.N.

Indonesian Group (N-Z.P.A.Stttttr—Copyright) NEW YORK, October 3. A group calling themselves the “Federal Republic of Indonesia” presented a document to the United Nations yesterday calling on the organisation to supervise free elections throughout Indonesia. The document, which condemned “dictatorship” and “neo-colonialism” by the President of Indonesia (Dr. Soekarno) was addressed to the President of the General Assembly (Mr Mongi Slim). It stated that the “Federal Republic of Indonesia, a de facto Government which is in control of part of Indonesia (north Sumatra, north, central and south Celebes)." demanded the restoration of the “sacred righto of selfgovernment. . . . denied to them by the Soekarno dictatorship in Djakarta, which is imposing Javanese colonialism upon more than a dozen nationalities of Indonesia.

“The Javanese, under the leadership of Soekarno, established Javanese colonialism over the nationalities, first by the use of the Javanese numerical superiority, and later on by the outright use of military forces,” The document said nonJavanese peoples in the territority. including the Sudanese, South Moluccens, Buginese, Atjehnese, Borneo Malays. Bataks, Menangkabauers, Malays of Sumatra and Minahasans, who it was stated were all separate peoples, had been revolting against the Soekarno regime at various stages since 1949. and had formed the Federal Republic "in contra-distinc-tion to the Djakarta Government.” V

The United Nations was urged to issue a general cease-fire order in Indonesia, supervised by the existing United Nations commission for the territory, and to supervise free elections allowing the different peoples to decide whether to join the Djakarta Republic or the "Federal Republic."