Describes raw materials used in telephone manufacturing. The map shows a location of Sumatra in Indonesia. View of the island. Natives around their settlements on the island. Natives outside a Sumatran temple. Houses of Sumatran architecture in a village. Rubber trees are girdled and latex is collected. Natives bring latex in containers. The containers are weighed and coagulated. Coagulated rubber is taken out. Rubber blocks are loaded into railroad cars by Sumatran natives for transportation. Picture shows a telephone receiver made up of rubber.
A film shows Bandung, Indonesia before the first Asian-African Conference in April 1955. Small industries in Bandung. Rows of soles of slippers. Men make sandals. Umbrella making in progress. A pot is made on a potter's wheel. A man paints a pot. Handicraft articles including a flower vase and a toy animal on display.
United States President Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon on tour to Indonesia. President Nixon and the First Lady welcomed at Jakarta by General Suharto (successor to President Sukarno) and other dignitaries at the Merdeka Palace (Jalan Medan Merdeka Utara, Jakarta Pusat, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta). A chandelier lit up inside the palace. The dignitaries walk through a palace. Workers and housekeepers of the palace. President Nixon, General Suharto, Lady Nixon and others at a conference hall. Suharto and Nixon talk with each other.
Battle of Palembang, Indonesia, in World War 2. Japanese Kawasaki Ki-56 transport aircraft flying overhead in formation, begin dropping paratroopers. The sky is filled with their chutes. Next scene shows many struggling to make their way through knee-deep swampy jungles, where they landed. Most of their arms and ammunition were lost in the swamps. They finally emerge to attack lightly defended facilities of the Dutch Bataafse Petroleum Maatschappij (BPM) and Nederlandsche Koloniale Petroleum Maatschappij (NKPM),a refinery for the American Standard Oil Company. Japanese soldiers are seen after a day's battle with the defending contingent of Royal Netherlands East Indies Army home guard. A rear guard group of them and Dutch technicians, are made prisoners. Shell fired by departing Dutch forces strike oil storage tanks. Smoke rises in several places and one very heavy black smoke plume rises near the camera. Soon the area is a blazing inferno. The Japanese troops succeed in confining fires to the oil tanks, extinguish them, and save the cracking towers and other essential oil refinery structures. The Japanese flag is seen atop one. (Note: Two technicians seen in white, at TC: 02:05, are BPM workers. The one on the left is Christiaan Stapels. He died at a Japanese prisoner of war camp in June 1945.)
Riots against Chinese people in Chinese Quarters of Jakarta, Indonesia. Indonesians throw stones on shops. Crowd demonstrates on road. Crowd broke the windows of a van. People throw stones. A car turned over on road. Crowd beat Chinese men. Chinese lay wounded down. Military troop carriers on road, soldiers on tank.
U.S. infantry battles Japanese forces on Noemfoor island in Indonesia during World War II. U.S. infantry lands on narrow coral reefs. The infantry advances inland under fire. A Japanese air base comes under American possession. Reinforcements and supplies arrive by air. Paratroopers and parachute supplies are landed by U.S. Army Air Force transport aircraft.