Received 24 September 1947, 9.30 a.m.

INDONESIA

Prime Minister Beel today made a policy statement on Indonesia to
the second Chamber of the States-General.

2. After reviewing events both in Indonesia and in the Security
Council since the beginning of 'police action', the Prime Minister
announced the following steps to be taken by the Netherlands
Government in the near future:

(a) The formation of a central organisation which can develop into
a preliminary Federal Government in Indonesia;

(b) The promotion of a limited revision of the Netherlands
constitution in order to prepare legal provisions of a new
political structure of the whole kingdom in the shortest possible
time;

(c) The setting up of an organisation in place of the Commission-
General to lighten the burden of the Lieutenant Governor-General
and to share the responsibility with him.

3. The Prime Minister stated that the Netherlands Government would
afford every co-operation for the success of the work of the
Consuls-General and of the Commission of Three in Indonesia, but
closed by declaring that the present situation could not be
allowed to continue and that the cease fire order must be observed
by the Republic in word and deed. Ultimate responsibility for the
maintenance of law and order in Indonesia-including Republic
territory-still rested, he said, with the Netherlands Government.

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