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FM JAKARTA 120408Z JAN 79
TO PRIORITY FCO
TELNO 13 OF 12 JANUARY
No
INFO ROUTINE BANGKOK, SINGAPORE, KUALA LUMPUR, MANILA, CANBERRA, WASHINGTON, HANCI, VIENTIANE, UKMIS NEW YORK, UKMIS GENEVA,
MOSCOW AND PEKING.
-NT.
MY TELNO 11:
INDONESIA AND INDO-CHİNA
1.
AS DARUSMAN (DIRECTOR-GENERAL FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS, DFA) HAS ADMITTED TO ME, INDONESIA HAS NO FOREIGN POLICY AT THE MOMENT. INSTEAD SUHARTO'S GOVERNMENT REACTS TO SITUATIONS AS THEY OCCUR.
2. IT IS CLEAR NOW FROM THE WIDE RANGE OF TALKS I HAVE HAD WITH
MANY DIFFERENT INDONESIAN AUTHORITIES, THAT THERE WERE OPTIMISTIC
EXPECTATIONS IN 1978 THAT HIGH LEVEL CONTACT BETWEEN INDONESIA AND VIETNAM WOULD ENABLE THE INDONESIANS TO COUNSEL MODERATION AND TO PERSUADE THE VIETNAMESE TO ADOPT A MORE ''YUGOSLAVIAN'' ROLE IN ASIA. THESE OPTIMISTIC EXPECTATIONS WERE DASHED BY: (A) THE SOVIET/VIETNAMESE AGREEMENT OF 1978 AND
(B) VIETNAMESE INVOLVEMENT IN THE OVERTHROW OF POL POT'S
GOVERNMENT IN KAMPUCHEA.
3. THE PICTURE HERE IS ONE OF GREAT ANXIETY WITH THE INDONESIAN
GOVERNMENT WRINGING THEIR HANDS ON THE SIDELINES AND NOT KNOWING
WHAT TO DO NEXT. I HOPE TO LEARN THEIR LATEST THINKING AFTER
PROFESSOR MOCHTAR RETURNS FROM THE ASEAN MEETING IN BANGKOK ON
SUNDAY.
4.
MEANTIME, THE FOREIGN MINISTRY ADMIT THAT THE INDONESIANS HAVE BACKED SO MANY WRONG HORSES IN KAMPUCHEA THAT THEY ARE NOT GOING TO BE IN A HURRY TO RECOGNISE THE NEW GOVERNMENT WHICH
IS EMERGING.
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