Kartosuwirjo was the Imam of the Negara Islam Indonesia (N.I.I.), the Islamic-state movement founded in West Java in 1949, who in September 1953 appointed Teungkoe Moehamad Daoed Beureu-éh as his governor for Atjeh following the province’s proclaimed accession to the N.I.I. on 21 September 1953.
The Atjeh appointment and propaganda campaign
Henri J. H. Alers’s Om een rode of groene Merdeka records that once Daoed Beureuh’s rebellion made Atjeh part of the N.I.I., Kartosuwirjo lost no time exploiting the changed international climate. Following the World Muslim Conference secretary-general Inamullah Khan’s declaration of 27 September 1953 that Islamic states would side against any “red” cause, Kartosuwirjo circulated a signed pamphlet — sent to every embassy in Djakarta — charging that the government of the Republic of Indonesia and several of its leading figures were, in his words, “more or less important instruments of international communism.” Daoed Beureuh’s own information service, the “Media Djihad,” pressed the identical theme.
Strategic value of Atjeh to the N.I.I.
Alers argues that the strategic significance of the Atjeh rebellion, far more than the geographically marginal insurgency of Kahar Muzakkar in South Celebes, was what gave Kartosuwirjo’s international outreach any real substance. He notes President Sukarno’s statement at Bone on 14 October 1953 that Kartosuwirjo had appealed to the United States for aid, and observes that such an appeal could only plausibly have concerned Atjeh — a territory Kartosuwirjo had something concrete to offer a foreign patron — rather than South Celebes. Alers also records that after the Atjeh rising, Kartosuwirjo was willing to “come to terms” with the Republic only on a strict basis of “state facing state,” a stance that underscored how much greater weight Atjeh’s accession, compared to the older West Java and South Celebes fronts, had given his movement by late 1953.
See Also
- Teungkoe Moehamad Daoed Beureu-éh
- Negara Islam Indonesia
- Atjèh’s accession to the Negara Islam Indonesia (1953)
- Kahar Muzakkar
- 1953
Source
Om een rode of groene Merdeka: Tien jaren binnenlandse politiek Indonesië, 1943–1953, by Henri J. H. Alers (Eindhoven: Uitgeverij Vulkaan, 1956), Chapter VII §§34–35, pp. 264–274.
Kartosuwirjo was the Imam of the Negara Islam Indonesia (N.I.I.), the Islamic-state movement founded in West Java in 1949, who in September 1953 appointed Teungkoe Moehamad Daoed Beureu-éh as his governor for Atjeh following the province’s proclaimed accession to the N.I.I. on 21 September 1953.
The Atjeh appointment and propaganda campaign
Henri J. H. Alers’s Om een rode of groene Merdeka records that once Daoed Beureuh’s rebellion made Atjeh part of the N.I.I., Kartosuwirjo lost no time exploiting the changed international climate. Following the World Muslim Conference secretary-general Inamullah Khan’s declaration of 27 September 1953 that Islamic states would side against any “red” cause, Kartosuwirjo circulated a signed pamphlet — sent to every embassy in Djakarta — charging that the government of the Republic of Indonesia and several of its leading figures were, in his words, “more or less important instruments of international communism.” Daoed Beureuh’s own information service, the “Media Djihad,” pressed the identical theme.
Strategic value of Atjeh to the N.I.I.
Alers argues that the strategic significance of the Atjeh rebellion, far more than the geographically marginal insurgency of Kahar Muzakkar in South Celebes, was what gave Kartosuwirjo’s international outreach any real substance. He notes President Sukarno’s statement at Bone on 14 October 1953 that Kartosuwirjo had appealed to the United States for aid, and observes that such an appeal could only plausibly have concerned Atjeh — a territory Kartosuwirjo had something concrete to offer a foreign patron — rather than South Celebes. Alers also records that after the Atjeh rising, Kartosuwirjo was willing to “come to terms” with the Republic only on a strict basis of “state facing state,” a stance that underscored how much greater weight Atjeh’s accession, compared to the older West Java and South Celebes fronts, had given his movement by late 1953.
See Also
- Teungkoe Moehamad Daoed Beureu-éh
- Negara Islam Indonesia
- Atjèh’s accession to the Negara Islam Indonesia (1953)
- Kahar Muzakkar
- 1953
Source
Om een rode of groene Merdeka: Tien jaren binnenlandse politiek Indonesië, 1943–1953, by Henri J. H. Alers (Eindhoven: Uitgeverij Vulkaan, 1956), Chapter VII §§34–35, pp. 264–274.