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the stimulation of pro-Republican expressions of public opinion in possible plebiscites
under the UN Good Offices Committee and in influencing the selection and activities of
members of the Constituent Assembly which will draft the constitution of the USI.
The achievement of Republican objectives also requires: (a) the perpetuation of
the identity of the Republic and its attributes of sovereignty, independent control of
military and foreign affairs, until the formation of the USI; (b) the vigorous advocacy
of a rapid and early transfer of powers from the Netherlands Indies Government to
the federal organs of the USI; (c) the promotion of Indonesian national self-con-
sciousness throughout the archipelago, accompanied by the encouragement of the pur-
suit of parallel policies vis-a-vis the Dutch on the part of the Republic, East Indonesia,
and whatever other nationalist groups can be won over; (d) the utilization of Re-
publican political skill and experience to offset the Republic's possible numerical dis-
advantage in the governmental bodies of the USI; and (e) resistance against the de-
velopment of the NIU into an international entity possessing a reality and a sovereignty
superior to that of the USI.
Republican Concept. The Republican concept of the future political organization
of Indonesia envisages a sovereign, democratic, and independent republic on a federal
basis, the United States of Indonesia, linked loosely with the Netherlands in a Nether-
lands-Indonesian Union. (For the evolution of the Republican concept, see Enclosure
A, Part II.) In practical terms, the Republican concept appears to contemplate the
restoration of Republican prestige to the level held at the time of the Linggadjati
Agreement * by a successful defense of Indonesian nationalism prior to the formation
of the USI, the encouragement of close ties with the non-Republican governments
in the archipelago, and the adoption of the role, prior to and in the USI, of chief advocate
of Indonesian independence.
4.
PRESENT NEGOTIATIONS AND THE USI.
Principal Problems in Negotiations. The principal problems in the immediate
future will be the reconciliation of Dutch and Republican positions in present negotia-
tions regarding: (a) the status of the Republic and the scope of its authority; (b) the
conditions for the Republic's admission to an interim federal organization prior to
the formation of the USI; and (c) the forms and areas of jurisdiction of the USI and
the NIU, their interrelationship and their relations with their component states, the
Kingdom of the Netherlands and the states of the USI.
Dutch Position. The Dutch have set as a precondition for Republican admission
to an interim federal government the Republic's acceptance of the status of a state
in the interim government and the USI, implying Republican abdication of any pre-
tensions to a sovereignty separate from that of the interim government. The Dutch
will seek in the present negotiations to obtain Republican acknowledgment of such
a status and to settle procedures for the dissolution of present Republican attributes
of sovereignty such as an independent army, independent foreign representation, and
* For a discussion of the Linggadjati Agreement of 25 March 1947, see ORE-20 "Basic Dutch-
Indonesian Issues and the Linggadjati Agreement" 9 June 1947.
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