Organization:CONEFO

Short description: Former alternative to the United Nations

Conference of the New Emerging Forces Konferensi Negara-Negara Berkembang  (Indonesian)
Member states      Observer states
Headquarters	Jl. Gatot Subroto, Jakarta, Indonesia
Type	Intergovernmental organization
Membership	4 member states 5 observer states
Establishment
• Established	7 January 1965 (1965-01-07)
• Dissolved	11 August 1966 (1966-08-11)

The Conference of the New Emerging Forces (CONEFO) was an effort by President Sukarno of Indonesia to create a new bloc of "emerging countries" that would be an alternative power centre to the United Nations and to the "old-established forces"—a category in which Sukarno included both the United States and the Soviet Union. It was intended to build on the legacy of the 1955 Bandung Conference and assert the interests of the Third World and a neutral posture towards the Cold War.

To host CONEFO, Indonesia constructed a new building complex in Jakarta with the financial aid of China . Since CONEFO never met, the complex – now called the MPR/DPR/DPD building – houses the Indonesian national parliament.

CONEFO was officially established on 7 January 1965, after Sukarno's government objected to Malaysia becoming a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council at a time when Indonesia had declared a low-level conflict called the Konfrontasi (confrontation) against Malaysia. An angry Sukarno took Indonesia out of the UN and formed a rival world organization. He had taken similar steps in 1963 when he created the Games of the New Emerging Forces (GANEFO) as an alternative to the Olympic Games.

CONEFO was dissolved on 11 August 1966 by General Suharto, who had ousted Sukarno from power.

CONEFO member states

• Indonesia
• China
• North Korea
• North Vietnam

Observers

• Soviet Union
• Cuba
• Yugoslavia
• Template:Country data UAR United Arab Republic
• Template:Country data PLO Palestine Liberation Organization

References

• "GANEFO & CONEFO Lembaran Sejarah yang Terlupakan". JakartaGreater. 2015-10-25. http://jakartagreater.com:80/ganefo-conefo-lembaran-sejarah-yang-terlupakan/. Retrieved 2017-05-19. 
• Redfern, William (2010), Sukarno's Guided Democracy and the Takeovers of Foreign Companies in Indonesia in the 1960s, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States: University of Michigan, https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/77846/wredfern_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y