These contacts with Taiwan did not go unnoticed in Peking. On 5 September the New China News Agency reported that since April ten groups of Indonesian officials had visited Taiwan secretly. The officials had come from the army and various government departments, including defense, trade, foreign affairs and information. According to the NCNA report, the establishment of diplomatic relations between Taipei and Jakarta had been solved in principle, and a site for a Taiwanese embassy in Indonesia had even been determined. Two Taiwan officials were also said to have visited Indonesia on Taiwanese passports and to have met high-ranking Indonesian officials. Another indication of the sinister intentions of the Indonesian government, according to the same report, was the formation of an ‘overseas Chinese liaison committee’ (presumably the ‘Contact Body for Chinese Affairs’, or BKUT) which was ‘under the control of Chiang Kai Shek elements’. (It was true that the Chinese who were enlisted as communist.) Chinese objections to growing contact between Taiwan and Indonesia were translated into official protests over the invitation to the Taiwanese trade mission and its visit to Indonesia.
While the Taiwanese mission was actually visiting Indonesia, the Indonesian government declared the interim Chinese charge affaires and his second secretary persona non grata, ordering them to leave the country by 18 September. The ground for their expulsion was that they were responsible for the shooting alleged to have occurred from the embassy on 5 August. On 15 September Adam Malik announced to the press that the Indonesian embassy in Peking had been wrecked by demonstrators some three to four weeks earlier. Included in the equipment destroyed was the embassy radio transmitter. The remaining eight Indonesian diplomats had been reduced to living in the embassy storeroom and were unable to change their clothing. Because it was no longer possible to carry on the work of the embassy, Malik said, the government had ordered them to leave China at once, but the Chinese government had refused to give them an exit permit and in fact had ordered them not to leave the storeroom. The Indonesian government had therefore banned the use of the Chinese embassy radio transmitter in Jakarta, since the Indonesian one in Peking was out of action.