______ Panamin [Presidential Assistant on National Minorities] museum a complete set of Indonesian musical instruments and books.
It is my feeling that Pres. Soeharto now trusts the Philippines and really respects Filipino capability. He is impressed by our industrialization efforts although he is proud of his oil production ($500 million is the share of Indonesia—50% of actual produce). The wells in the offshore drilling in Java are now producing 150,000 barrels a day (six wells out of 98 drillings). Esso has announced another discovery just off the boundary of the Philippines.
Official Gazette for February 14, 1972: PRESIDENT MARCOS had breakfast and private talks with the visiting Indonesian, chief of state, President Soeharto.
Official talks were also conducted by the two Presidents, wherein also present were the top officials of the Philippine and Indonesian governments. These included Secretary of Foreign Affairs Carlos P. Soraulo, Secretary of Finance Cesar E. A. Virata, Executive Secretary Alejandro Melchor, Jr., Ambassador Narciso G. Reyes, Philippine envoy to the United Nations; Gen. Romeo Espino, AFP chief of staff; and Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs Manuel Collantes on the Philippine side; and on the Indonesian side were Foreign Minister Adam Malik, Ambassador Kusno Utomo, Minister Widjojo Nitisastro of national development; Gen. Umar Wirahadikusumah, chief of staff; Maj. Gen. Soeharmono, secretary of state; and R. B. I. D. Djajadiningrat, secretary-general for political affairs of the Indonesian foreign ministry.
Aside from his talks with the visiting President, the Chief Executive also received a number of callers.
Notable among the callers was Dr. Malcolm Mackay, minister of the Australian Navy, who paid his respects. Dr. Mackay was accompanied to Malacañang by Australian Ambassador to the Philippines James C. Ingram and Gregorio Abad, Philippine envoy to Australia.
At noon, the President joined the First Lady, Mrs. Imelda R. Marcos, at the Nayong Pilipino where they hosted at a luncheon in honor of visiting President and Madame Soeharto of Indonesia.
In the afternoon, the President resumed his regular schedule of desk work and received callers in-between.
The first page of this entry [pp1023 and 1024] are missing, and the PCGG stranscript leaves out a fragment, two lines at the top of the page.
Suharto (1921-2008) was the second and longest serving president of Indonesia from 1967-1998. As a former military man who crushed the Communist Party of Indonesia, Marcos surely brought in this in during their private talks.
Suharto addressed the joint Philippine Congress and historian Joseph Scalice states that he “met privately with Ferdinand Marcos, who sought his advice on how best to implement military rule in the country. The conventional scholarly argument about Marcos’ declaration of martial law is that his success was predicated upon the ties which he cultivated with military leadership and the legal and political groundwork which he prepared for dictatorship…While this is true, the conventional argument overlooks the history of multiple prior presidents who likewise developed an extensive network of military ties and who deployed the threat of martial law at various junctures during their terms in office. Situated historically, there was nothing particularly remarkable about Marcos’ conduct in office or his threats of dictatorship.” See “47 years since the imposition of Martial Law in the Philippines” josephscalice.com