Committee of Good Offices USS RENVILLE, 17 January 1948
Document S/AC.10/CONF.2/3

UNRESTRICTED

The Committee of Good Offices has been informed by the delegation
of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and by the delegation of the
Republic of Indonesia that, the truce agreement having been
signed, their Governments accept the following principles on which
the political discussions will be based:

1. That the assistance of the Committee of Good Offices be
continued in the working out and signing of an agreement for the
settlement of the political dispute in the islands of Java,
Sumatra and Madura, based upon the principles underlying the
Linggadjati Agreement.

2. It is understood that neither party has the right to prevent
the free expression of popular movements looking toward political
organizations which are in accord with the principles of the
Linggadjati Agreement. It is further understood that each party
will guarantee the freedom of assembly, speech and publication at
all times provided that this guarantee is not construed so as to
include the advocacy of violence or reprisals.

3. It is understood that decisions concerning changes in
administration of territory should be made only with the full and
free consent of the populations of those territories and at a time
when the security and freedom from coercion of such populations
will have been ensured.

4. That on the signing of the political agreement provision be
made for the gradual reduction of the armed forces of both
parties.

5. That as soon as practicable after the signing of the truce
agreement, economic activity, trade, transportation and
communications be restored through the cooperation of both
parties, taking into consideration the interests of all the
constituent parts of Indonesia.

6. That provision be made for a suitable period of not less than
six months nor more than one year after the signing of the
agreement, during which time uncoerced and free discussion and
consideration of vital issues will proceed. At the end of this
period, free elections will be held for self-determination by the
people of their political relationship to the United States of
Indonesia.

7. That a constitutional convention be chosen according to
democratic procedure to draft a constitution for the United States
of Indonesia.

8. It is understood that if, after signing the agreement referred
to in item 1, either party should ask the United Nations to
provide an agency to observe conditions at any time up to the
point at which sovereignty is transferred from the Government of
the Netherlands to the Government of the United States of
Indonesia, the other party will take this request in serious
consideration.

The following four principles are taken from the Linggadjati
Agreement;

9. Independence for the Indonesian peoples.

10. Cooperation between the peoples of the Netherlands and
Indonesia.

11. A sovereign state on a federal basis under a constitution
which will be arrived at by democratic processes.

12. A union between the United States of Indonesia and other parts
of the Kingdom of the Netherlands under the King of the
Netherlands.

Confirmed for the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
RADEN ABDULKADIR WIDJOJOATMODJO
Chairman of the delegation

Confirmed for the Government of the Republic of Indonesia
DR. AMIR SJARIFUDDIN
Chairman of the delegation

The representatives on the United Nations Security Council
Committee of Good Offices on the Indonesian Question, and the
Committee Secretary, whose signatures are hereunto subscribed on
this 17th day of January 1948, on board the U.S.S. Renville,
testify that the above principles are agreed to as a basis for the
political discussions.

Chairman; MR. JUSTICE RICHARD C. KIRBY (Australia)
Representatives; MR. PAUL VAN ZEELAND (Belgium)
DR. FRANK P. GRAHAM (United States)
Secretary; T. G. NARAYANAN