Anti-Communist Front set up

BANDUNG: Around 100 West Java politicians and public figures at a ceremony at the Panghegar Hotel here on Friday signed up to the establishment of the West Java Anti-Communist Front in their efforts to curb what they called "the emergence of new Communism movements".

The front chairman, Ali Rohman said that the new Communist movements had been clearly seen in mass deployments allegedly instigated by political elites.

Citing as an example the East Java huge mass rally which turned violent, Ali said that the now banned Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) had used similar tactics before its abortive coup in 1965.

According to Ali, the political uncertainty in this country might cause Communists to infiltrate and profit from the chaos. (25/sur)