Oei Tjoe Tat in the Crush Malaysia Operation
Oei Tjoe Tat was involved in the "Crush Malaysia" campaign. His cover was blown by Indonesian Communist Party leader Dipa Nusantara Aidit.
In 1963, President Sukarno initiated the "Crush Malaysia" campaign, which led to the involvement of State Minister Oei Tjoe Tat in intelligence operations. It was Army Commander Gen. Ahmad Yani who enlisted Oei's assistance in mobilizing ethnic Chinese communities surrounding what are now Singapore and Malaysia for the Dual Command for the People (Dwikora) operation.
Oei, leveraging his Chinese Indonesian background, was tasked with persuading ethnic Chinese communities to oppose the formation of the Federation of Malaysia, a state Sukarno considered a British puppet. Oei was dispatched to a conference for overseas Chinese communities, where he engaged with leaders from the Riau Islands off Sumatra and Nunukan on Kalimantan, both bordering Malaysian territory.
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