CONEFO
The Conference of the New Emerging Forces (CONEFO) was an attempt 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.[1] 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 the People's Republic of China.[2] Since CONEFO never met, the complex – now called the MPR/DPR/DPD building – houses the Indonesian national parliament.[3] 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.