Anti-Chinese Feeling Spreads To Borneo

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31365, 10 May 1967, Page 19

Anti-Chinese Feeling Spreads To Borneo

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright)

DJAKARTA, May 9. Indonesia’s upsurge of anti-Chinese feeling has spread to West Borneo with Indonesian youths daubing huge slogans reading “Chinese go home” on the walls of Singkawang port, the official news agency, Antara, reported.

The agency said the slogans were in protest against recent Chinese anti-Govem-ment demonstrations in Djakarta and against the reported ill-treatment of two Indonesian diplomats by Chinese Red Guards in Peking. Reports from Surabaya in East Java quoted the area military commander. Major General Mohammed Jassin, as saying that the recent order banning Chinese people from business activities in the region was not a racialist act but a means of ridding Indonesia’s economy of Chinese domination.

Three Chinese were shot dead in East Java last month in a violent demonstration against the ban. In Djakarta Indonesian troops stood guard round Chinese-owned shops today after a violent anti-Chinese riot in Tangerang, 10 miles

west of Djakarta yesterday. Business went on as usual beneath the muzzle of rifles and light machine-guns carried by the Army squads called out to foil any new outbreaks of anti-Chinese violence which has shaken Djakarta in the last month. Reports from Tangerang said hundreds of Indonesians

attacked Chinese shops and I damaged a number of them > in yesterday's riot. No casual- • ties were reported. i The Indonesian armed ’ forces bulletin today accused - Chinese in East Java, scene of : recent anti-Chinese unrest, of planning mass sabotage of : next month’s rice harvest It I gave no details.