§ (Concluded at Cheribon (Linggadjati); Initialled at Batavia on 15th November, 1946; Signed at Batavia on 25th March, 1947.)
§ The Netherlands Government, represented by the Commission General, and the Government of the Republic of Indonesia, represented by the Indonesian delegation, moved by the sincere desire to ensure the good relations between the peoples of the Netherlands and Indonesia in new forms of voluntary co-operation, which offer the best guarantee for a sound and strong development of both countries in the future and which make it possible to give a new foundation to the relationship between the two peoples;
§ agree as follows and will submit this agreement at the shortest possible notice to the approval of the respective Parliaments: