KAEDAH PERANG SARAF DALAM MEMBANTERAS GERAKAN KOMUNIS DI BAHAGIAN PERTAMA, SARAWAK 1963 - 1974.

The establishment of communist-inspired organization in Sarawak during 1941s' indicated the beginning of communist movement in Sarawak and the spreading of communist ideology toward civilians. It was believed, the communist influences spread to Sarawak through the border when 1 000 of youths went to Kalimantan for military training. Consequently, the First Division of Sarawak have to endure communist terrorism for the first time in August, 1952. This incident triggered the government to implement psychology warfare as a part of counter measure of thwarting subversive activities particularly by communist. Therefore, this article attempt to discuss about the psychology warfare as a measure taken to encounter communist activities. This paper had concluded, the implementation of psychology warfare had succeeded in suppressing the communist movement in First Division of Sarawak. Thus, in completing this paper, a few primer sources including reports and documents had been used namely the resident office, district office, colonial office, foreign colonial office and secondary sources have been able to address the issues making such study became feasible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]