China Protests To Indonesia

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30916, 24 November 1965, Page 21

China Protests To Indonesia

(N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) TOKYO, Nov. 23. China has filed another strong protest against Indonesia for what it called “persecution of Chinese nationals” in Indonesia.

It demanded that the Djakarta Government take effective measures to halt all anti-Chinese activities. The New China News Agency on Monday said the demand was made in a Chinese Embassy note, dated November 19 and delivered to

the Indonesian Foreign Ministry. The Chinese Note was the second delivered to Indonesia in connexion with the spread of the anti-China campaign in various parts of Indonesia after the abortive October 1 coup. The first Note was dated November 4. Persecutions Alleged The latest Note charged that Chinese nationals were “persecuted on a large scale” in Makasar, South Celebes, on November 10 and 11. It said anti-China demonstrators “organised by the Indonesian Right-wing forces . . . many times attempted to break” into the Chinese consulate in Makasar. Several thousand rioters and a number of Indonesian Army men “smashed shops and houses of Chinese nationals one by one,” the Note said. “They broke doors and windows and wrecked or carried away commodities, shop equipment, clothes and household utensils . . . they even beat up Chinese nationals and assaulted women.

“A girl of 13 died of shock from the rioters’ acts of terrorism,” it said.