Mass Murderer Sits on Time Bomb

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This month the People's Congress elected President Suharto to another five year term by an overwhelming majority.

But this should not fool anyone into thinking that either the Indonesian people or the imperialist backers of Suharto are happy with his performance.

General Suharto was the organiser of the massacre of the Indonesian Communist Party in 1965 in which over a million people died.

His regime has been sustained in office by huge imperialist grants and loans.

Last year alone it received $691 million in bilateral aid. But even Western enthusiasts for imperialist puppet states are forced to admit that it is the most corrupt regime in Asia-and that is some boast.

Corruption in the State Oi Company alone nas left Indonesia several billion dollars in debt to foreign capitalists.

The regime's inability to develop agriculture has left Indonesia as the world's largest importer of rice, and made it totally dependent on imperialism.

Student protests against imperialist domination culminated in huge demonstrations against the visit of the Japanese Prime Minister in 1974, which were crushed with hundreds killed.

But the student movement is growing once again with a recent wave of protests against corruption&.

On February 25, five people were injured and 55 arrested in a battle between police and students. On March 17 another 12 high school students were injured by police.

The state has now closed all schools until the end of the Consultative People's Another source of growing opposition to the regime is the Islamic Church. Originally they had been firm supporters of the anti-communist policies of Suharto.

But there is a logic to the development of anti-communist, military regimes. Unable to solve the basic economic and social problems of the masses, they begin to a threat to stability.

The encouragement of mysticism and superstition by the state as against organised religion is part of this process of fragmenting the masses.

The bourgeois press has been another victim of Suharto's paranoia about possible SOUICES opposition.

It had never made more than the most muted criticisms of the corruption in leading families, of the reign of terror in the universities and of the slave conditions Indonesia's prison colonies.

But Suharto found even this intolerable and closed down the independent press.

No way forward This has led to the formation of a liberal bourgeois and religious opposition, who are unable to realise that terror and repression are necessary to the continued rule of imperialism in Indonesia in a period of capitalist crisis.

These people offer no way forward to the people of Indonesia, contrary to the view of the Stalinists who are once again looking for cross class alliances.

Only the overthrow of capitalist property relations offers a way forward for the Indonesian masses. This requires the construction of an independent working class

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