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GA-02326 1955-04-26 Daily Worker rel C licensed

Bandung Notebook: The Spirit in the Streets (Ralph Parker from Bandung)

Daily Worker, 26 April 1955: Bandung notebook - the spirit in the streets (Ralph Parker)

Page 2 of the Daily Worker (New York, 26 Apr 1955) with Ralph Parker's 'Bandung Notebook' on the Asian-African Conference: Indonesian hosts, students, land and independence hopes. A separate item reports 27 doctors' protest over Claudia Jones's imprisonment, citing a WIDF report. Indonesian women appear only in a fragm

GA-02075 1964-04-25 Moscow News rel B licensed

Moscow News, 25 April 1964 (Indonesia, 'Remote but Near'; Moskow memperingati Kartini)

Moscow News, 25 Apr 1964: 'Remote but Near' on Indonesia; Moscow commemorates Kartini

Moscow News (English), 25 April 1964, pp. 13-16 section. Includes a travelogue by a Soviet cultural-delegation member on Indonesia (new Jakarta monuments, Soviet-built stadium, 100,000 students, Lekra in Bandung) and a short item on a Moscow meeting marking Kartini's birth, run by the USSR-Indonesia Society's Women's C

GA-02152 1964-05-31 Soviet Woman rel A licensed

Soviet Woman, 31 Mei 1964: 'Our Visit to Indonesia' (Ludmila Balakhovskaya)

Soviet Woman, 31 May 1964: 'Our Visit to Indonesia' (Ludmila Balakhovskaya)

Soviet Woman, 31 May 1964: Ludmila Balakhovskaya's 'Our visit to Indonesia', on a two-week Soviet Women's Committee tour for Mother's Day (22 Dec) at Hurustiati Subandrio's invitation (Kowani). Notes 30 women among 300 MPs, creches and women's clubs, and that Gerwani runs 1,400 kindergartens (50+ children each), planni

GA-02154 1964-11-30 Soviet Woman rel B licensed

Soviet Woman, 30 November 1964: 'Indonesia's Independence Day' (Kongres X Kowani)

Soviet Woman, 30 Nov 1964: 'Indonesia's Independence Day' (10th Kowani Congress)

Soviet Woman, 30 Nov 1964, p. 11-12: Victor Tsoppi's 'Indonesia's Independence Day' (with a separate Algerian woman's story). Madame Manai Sofian and Soviet women, incl. Nina Orlova, report on attending the 10th Congress of Kowani (Federation of Indonesian Women's Organizations) at Jakarta's stadium, invited by Hurusti

GA-00280 1964-12-31 The Canberra Times rel B

Prisoners tell of Indonesian plan (Canberra Times, 31 Desember 1964)

Prisoners Tell of Indonesian Plan (Canberra Times, 31 December 1964)

Canberra Times, 31 Dec 1964, p. 1 (AAP-Reuter): two captured Indonesian soldiers claim Indonesia is forming a Malayan government and army in exile in Sumatra during Konfrontasi. Final paragraphs report about 500 housewives, led by Mrs Subandrio of the Indonesian Women's Congress, protesting prices in Jakarta. Gerwani n

GA-01661 1965-10-12 Evening Post rel A

Armed Java Reds Flee to Hills to Escape Dragnet (Evening Post, 12 October 1965)

Evening Post (Wellington), 12 Oct 1965, NZPA-Reuter report: Communists flee into Central Java hills from an Army dragnet; branch officials detained; US embassy dependants withdrawn. Mobs ransacked Communist youth, women's and trade-union offices in Jakarta; per Radio Malaysia quoting Radio Jakarta, a crowd burned the G

GA-01664 1965-10-12 Evening Post rel A

Armed Java Reds Flee to Hills to Escape Dragnet (Evening Post, 12 October 1965)

Armed Java Reds Flee to Hills to Escape Dragnet (Evening Post, 12 October 1965), clipping on arrests and Aceh office

Clipping from the Evening Post of 12 Oct 1965: US embassy dependants withdrawn; hundreds of Communist branch officials detained, Bandung committee arrested in Yogyakarta; Jakarta curfew eased. Communist youth, women's and trade-union offices ransacked in Jakarta, and a crowd burned the Gerwani office in Aceh, north Sum

GA-01508 1965-11-20 South China Morning Post rel A licensed

Girl Admits Role In Coup (South China Morning Post, 20 November 1965)

Girl admits role in coup (South China Morning Post, 20 November 1965)

South China Morning Post, 20 Nov 1965, p.20 (Jakarta, 19 Nov; UPI/AP via Antara): a girl captured near Bandung admitted taking part in the killing of the six generals at Lubang Buaya and among those who shot the Army commander, and admitted membership of Gerwani, the Communist women's auxiliary. The item also reports a

GA-02043 1966-09-15 The Straits Times rel B

The Straits Times, 15 September 1966: Students open new assault on Hartini

Straits Times, 15 Sep 1966: students open new assault on Hartini

Straits Times, 15 Sep 1966 (lead only). The Bandung and Jakarta chapters of the Indonesian Action Front (KAMI) demanded that President Sukarno resign and answer before a special military tribunal, with an attack on Hartini. Matched on Gerwani; lead does not mention it.

GA-02162 1967-04-30 Soviet Woman rel C licensed

Soviet Woman, 30 April 1967: 'Our Indonesian Friends Write'

Soviet Woman, 30 Apr 1967: 'Our Indonesian Friends Write'

Soviet Woman, 30 Apr 1967: Nina Voronina's 'Our Indonesian friends write' describes correspondence between the Soviet Women's Committee and Indonesian women (Asih Budi society in Bandung, journalist Sakti Alamsjah, pharmacist Salamah Adipura, Tulungagung teachers' club). Mentions Indonesia only through Kowani-era conta

GA-00368 1970-01-21 Tribune rel A

The forgotten massacre: 'More killed than in Vietnam so far' (Tribune, 21 Januari 1970)

The forgotten massacre: 'More killed than in Vietnam so far'

Tribune (Sydney), 21 Jan 1970, p. 8: extract from Hong Kong's Eastern Horizon of letters by an Indonesian writing as 'Barbro Karabuda' on the 1965-66 massacre and prisoners (official 86,000 detainees; torture; Army extortion). The writer finds Tanti Aidit in Bukit Duri women's prison in Jakarta with Aidit's mother-in-l

GA-00369 1970-01-21 Tribune rel A

The forgotten massacre: 'More killed than in Vietnam so far' (Tribune, 21 Januari 1970)

The forgotten massacre: 'More killed than in Vietnam so far'

Tribune (Sydney), 21 Jan 1970, p. 8: extract from Hong Kong's Eastern Horizon of letters by an Indonesian writing as 'Barbro Karabuda' on the 1965-66 massacre and prisoners (official 86,000 detainees; torture; Army extortion). The writer finds Tanti Aidit in Bukit Duri women's prison in Jakarta with Aidit's mother-in-l

GA-01539 1978-07-27 The Times rel C licensed

Jakarta releases 8,000 political prisoners (The Times, 27 Juli 1978)

Jakarta releases 8,000 political prisoners (The Times, 27 July 1978)

The Times, 27 July 1978, p.6, whole page of overseas news; the relevant item reports (Bandung, 26 July) that more than 8,000 political prisoners, communists jailed since the 1965 coup attempt, were released across Indonesia, about 4,000 in Bandung. They were 'B'-class prisoners who could have been tried; Colonel Sardjo