On 18 January 1948, the day after the signing of the Renville Agreement, the French General Consul in Batavia, Étienne Raux, describes the signing ceremony. The agreement, signed on the foredeck of the USS Renville, an American warship moored in the Bay of Jakarta, between the Netherlands and the Republic of Indonesia and under the auspices of the United Nations Security Council, establishes a ceasefire along the ‘Van Mook line’.