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GA-02070 1968-08-15 Izvestiia rel A licensed

Izvestiia, 15 August 1968, p. 2: Arrests of communists (East Java)

Izvestiia, 15 Aug 1968: arrests of communists in East Java

Izvestiia, 15 Aug 1968, p. 2, TASS citing Antara: about 850 members of the banned PKI arrested in East Java, including six Central Committee members; the chairwoman of Gerwani has also been arrested. A fragment 'Sukatno' follows the sentence but cannot reliably be attached to her.

GA-01499 1968-10-27 New York Times rel B licensed

Sukarno's Role: An Exile at Home (New York Times, 27 Oktober 1968)

Sukarno's role: an exile at home (New York Times, 27 October 1968)

New York Times, 27 Oct 1968, p.5, Terence Smith from Jakarta: Sukarno lives under house arrest at Bogor and was interrogated in Sept-Oct 1968 about clandestine contacts with former associates, after Communists captured in the Blitar operations (2,000 killed or captured, including PKI chairman Oloan Hutapea) implicated

GA-03419 1968-11-03 Berliner Zeitung rel B licensed

Berliner Zeitung, 3 November 1968, S. 5: Protest gegen Massaker

Berliner Zeitung, 3 Nov 1968, p. 5: Protest against massacre

Berliner Zeitung, 3 November 1968, p. 5. ADN/BZ brief 'Protest gegen Massaker': the IDFF (WIDF) telegraphed General Suharto its outrage at continuing massacres of Indonesian patriots and democrats, calling them a flagrant violation of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. The same page's column 'Es geschah in dieser Woch

GA-03420 1968-11-04 Neues Deutschland rel B licensed

Neues Deutschland, 4 November 1968, S. 4: Weltorganisationen protestieren bei Suharto

Neues Deutschland, 4 Nov 1968, p. 4: World organisations protest to Suharto

Neues Deutschland, 4 November 1968, p. 4: Paris/Berlin ADN/ND item "Weltorganisationen protestieren bei Suharto". The International Association of Democratic Lawyers condemns the murder of leading Indonesian communists (unnamed) and urges protests to save those facing death sentences. The WIDF (IDFF), in a telegram to

GA-02333 1969-01-11 Daily World rel C licensed

Women's political rights worldwide, including Indonesia illiteracy figures

Daily World, 11 January 1969: Women's political rights worldwide

Daily World, 11 Jan 1969, p. M-5: feature on women's political rights worldwide, covering suffrage dates, education and the work-family dilemma. Indonesia appears only in passing, with the figure that some years earlier 42% of Indonesian men and 70% of women were illiterate, and as a country granting women equal status

GA-01502 1969-01-14 Ottawa Citizen rel C licensed

Embassy tea for 40th anniversary of the Indonesian Women's Movement (Ottawa Citizen, 14 Januari 1969)

Embassy tea for 40th anniversary of the Indonesian Women's Movement (Ottawa Citizen, 14 January 1969)

Ottawa Citizen, 14 Jan 1969, p.31 (women's page): a one-paragraph social note that Mrs. I. Darmo Bandoro will host a tea at the Indonesian embassy residence on 21 Jan 1969 for the 40th anniversary of the Indonesian Women's Movement. The rest of the page is unrelated social and advertising copy. Gerwani is not mentioned

GA-02329 1969-06-17 Daily World rel B licensed

Women's Congress Cheers Plea for a Free Vietnam (WIDF Helsinki congress; women tortured in Indonesian prisons)

Daily World, 17 June 1969: Women's congress cheers plea for a free Vietnam (WIDF Helsinki congress)

Page 10 of the Daily World (New York, 17 Jun 1969) with a Beatrice Johnson report on the WIDF World Congress of Women in Helsinki. Vietnamese NLF delegate Nguyen Thi Binh appeals for US withdrawal, and the congress hears that hundreds of women are being tortured in camps and prisons in Greece, Indonesia, Spain and else

GA-02334 1969-07-08 Daily World rel C licensed

Indonesia now a boom for foreign firms, banks

Daily World, 8 July 1969: Indonesia now a boom for foreign firms, banks

Daily World, 8 July 1969, p. 10: William J. Pomeroy (London) and the Foreign Department on British 'withdrawal' from bases in Singapore and Malaysia, and on Indonesia's opening to foreign capital after the 1967 investment law and the 1965 massacre of up to 566,000 Communists. Lists US oil firms and banks returning and

GA-03548 1971-01-07 Eastern Sun rel C licensed

Eastern Sun, 7 January 1971: PKI did not lead '65 coup - Red in court

Eastern Sun, 7 Jan 1971: PKI did not lead '65 coup - Red in court

Eastern Sun (Singapore), 7 Jan 1971 (lead snippet only). Reports that an Indonesian Communist leader, Sukatno, former chairman of an organisation (cut off), said at his trial that it is wrong to accuse the PKI of masterminding the 1965 coup. No woman or Gerwani member is named; the catalogue's 'Sri Sukatno' hit is unve

GA-01503 1971-12-17 Ottawa Citizen rel C licensed

Embassy coffee morning to commemorate the Indonesian Women's Movement (Ottawa Citizen, 17 Desember 1971)

Embassy coffee morning to commemorate the Indonesian Women's Movement (Ottawa Citizen, 17 December 1971)

Ottawa Citizen, 17 Dec 1971, p.31 (women's page): a short social note that Mrs. I. Darmo Bandoro will hold a coffee morning on Wednesday 29 Dec at 11 a.m. at the Indonesian embassy to commemorate the Indonesian Women's Movement (the Mother's Day anniversary). The remainder is unrelated (toy torture kits, Christmas safe

GA-02227 1972-01-01 Tempo rel C licensed

Soal Pertapolan (Soal tapol)

Tempo, 1972: The political prisoner problem

Tempo article (online archive, dated 1972) on the political prisoner (tapol) problem: Archbishop Leo Soekoto urges society to help, Amnesty and the Red Cross press Jakarta, Buru resettlement of about 5,000 Group B prisoners is presented as the best option, and officials still see ex-PKI as a threat. No Gerwani content.

GA-03421 1972-03-07 Neues Deutschland rel C licensed

Neues Deutschland, 7 March 1972, S. 6: Indonesiens Probleme der Familienplanung

Neues Deutschland, 7 Mar 1972, p. 6: Indonesia's family-planning problems

Neues Deutschland, 7 March 1972, p. 6: report 'Indonesiens Probleme der Familienplanung' by Jakarta correspondent Frieder Reinhold on population growth (125 million) and the 1971–76 family-planning plan. It notes that nearly half of women aged 10–14 in the (unrecovered) area surveyed have married and that twenty-year-o

GA-01489 1972-08-16 Edmonton Journal rel C licensed

Women's studies column, with note on Indonesian women's movement and polygamy (Edmonton Journal, 16 Agustus 1972)

Women's studies column, with note on Indonesian women's movement and polygamy (Edmonton Journal, 1972)

Edmonton Journal, 16 Aug 1972, p.20: a column on Women's Studies reviewing the essay collection Woman in Sexist Society. A short passage on non-Western women's status notes that Indonesian women's active economic role, and that the Indonesian women's movement's major goals were abolition of polygamy and divorce by repu

GA-02228 1972-09-30 Tempo rel C licensed

Laput G30S/PKI (Laporan utama G30S/PKI)

Tempo, 30 September 1972: Cover story G30S/PKI (editor's note)

Short Tempo editor's note (30 Sept 1972) introducing a cover story on alleged underground G30S/PKI activity, with reporters in Central Java and an interview with Jakarta commander Poniman. It describes the editorial process only; the report itself is not included. No Gerwani content.

GA-01522 1973-10-11 The Guardian rel B licensed

Ten torture cases to be used by Amnesty (The Guardian, 11 Oktober 1973)

Ten torture cases to be used by Amnesty (The Guardian, 11 October 1973)

The Guardian, 11 Oct 1973, p.8, Peter Cole: Amnesty International launches Prisoner of Conscience Week with ten emblematic torture cases. One is an Indonesian woman, Mrs Sri Ambar[...] (surname cut off in OCR), head of the women's department of the SOBSI trade union federation, who after arrest in 1966 was stripped nak

GA-01544 1974 Vashti's Voice rel B licensed

Vashti's Voice, Women's Liberation Newspaper, Issues 6-9 (1974-1975)

Vashti's Voice, Women's Liberation Newspaper, issues 6-9 (1974-1975)

Issues 6-9 (March 1974 onward) of Vashti's Voice, a Melbourne women's liberation newspaper, covering rape crisis, abortion, women's theatre and conferences. The only Indonesia item found is a page of Jakarta family-planning posters in Indonesian; no legible mention of Gerwani survives in the poor OCR.

GA-02335 1974-04-09 Daily World rel C licensed

Asian scholars panel, political prisoners in Philippines and Indonesia

Daily World, 9 April 1974: Asian scholars panel on political prisoners in the Philippines and Indonesia

Daily World, 9 April 1974, p. 3: page with several items; the Indonesia-related part is a short report that an Association of Asian Scholars panel on martial law in the Philippines (3 April; Kerkvliet, Stauffer, Manglapus) also raised political prisoners in the Philippines and Indonesia. Other articles cover the Vietna

GA-02229 1974-06-29 Tempo rel A licensed

Ultah SK Trimurti (Ulang tahun S.K. Trimurti)

Tempo, 29 June 1974: S.K. Trimurti's birthday

Tempo profile (29 June 1974) of S.K. Trimurti on her 64th birthday by the Javanese calendar: ex-Minister of Labour (1946-47), journalist since 1933, now editing the spiritual magazine Mawas Diri. Notes her will asking for cremation, her economics degree at 48, a forthcoming biography by Kustiniati Mochtar. No mention o

GA-03422 1975-02-01 Neues Deutschland rel C licensed

Neues Deutschland, 1. Februar 1975, S. 15: Paris war das Reiseziel für Delegierte aus aller Welt

Neues Deutschland, 1 Feb 1975, p. 15: Paris was the destination for delegates from all over the world

Neues Deutschland, 1 February 1975, p. 15 (anniversary supplement for International Women's Year): retrospective 'Paris war das Reiseziel für Delegierte aus aller Welt' on the 1934 World Women's Congress against Fascism and War in Paris. Among the speakers, 'the delegate Siti' (surname not given) brought greetings from

GA-01510 1975-02-04 South China Morning Post rel A licensed

Jakarta trial for women (South China Morning Post, 4 Februari 1975)

Jakarta trial for women (South China Morning Post, 4 February 1975)

South China Morning Post, 4 Feb 1975, p.22 (AFP, Jakarta, 3 Feb): four leading women of the outlawed PKI went on trial in Jakarta District Court charged with conspiracy to topple the Government. Miss Sulami was secretary general and the other three were board members of the 'defunct communist women's movement' (Gerwani

GA-02330 1975-05-16 Daily World rel B licensed

Connecticut Towns Hear Peace Delegates (WILPF-WIDF disarmament seminar)

Daily World, 16 May 1975: Connecticut towns hear peace delegates (WILPF-WIDF seminar)

Page 9 of the Daily World (New York, 16 May 1975) with a Connecticut report on delegates to a WILPF-WIDF disarmament seminar. They included British woman Carmel Budiardjo, who was in Djakarta in 1965 and imprisoned for three years while her husband remained jailed after ten years; she says over a million were killed an

GA-02331 1975-07-02 Daily World rel C licensed

Mexico Conferees Tie Women's Freedom to Economic Problems (Women under capitalism; Indonesian delegate)

Daily World, 2 July 1975: Mexico conferees tie women's freedom to economic problems

Page 10 of the Daily World (New York, 2 Jul 1975) with a special report from the UN International Women's Year Conference in Mexico City. Delegates from Italy, Fiji, Norway and Indonesia describe discrimination against women workers under capitalism, including lower pay and unemployment; tensions between US feminists a

GA-02336 1975-07-03 Daily World rel C licensed

WFTU condemns jailings of Indonesian workers, SOBSI ban

Daily World, 3 July 1975: WFTU condemns jailings of Indonesian workers and SOBSI ban

Daily World, 3 July 1975, p. 5: page of mixed US labour news; the Indonesia item (Prague) reports the WFTU condemning the imprisonment of thousands of political prisoners in Indonesian military compounds and demanding that the ban on SOBSI be lifted, calling both violations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

GA-02332 1975-07-26 Daily World rel A licensed

Women leaders jailed by Indonesian junta

Daily World, 26 July 1975: Women leaders jailed by Indonesian junta

Daily World (New York), 26 July 1975, p. 9: Foreign Department report that a Jakarta court on 16 June 1975 sentenced four women after a five-month trial: Sulami (general secretary of the Indonesian Women's Movement, 20 years), Sudjinah (magazine editor, 18), Sri Ambar (SOBSI women's section, 15) and Suharti Alimarkaban

GA-03423 1975-08-08 Neues Deutschland rel B licensed

Neues Deutschland, 8 August 1975, S. 2: IDFF verlangt Freilassung von indonesischen Frauen

Neues Deutschland, 8 Aug 1975, p. 2: WIDF demands release of Indonesian women

Neues Deutschland, 8 August 1975, p. 2. Short ND item 'IDFF verlangt Freilassung von indonesischen Frauen': the WIDF (IDFF), with 120 organisations in 103 countries, wrote to the President of Indonesia (Suharto, not named in the text) appealing for release of the women sentenced in June 1975 and all women held for poli

GA-03424 1975-10-22 Neues Deutschland rel B licensed

Neues Deutschland, 22 October 1975, S. 3: Beratungen der neun Kommissionen

Neues Deutschland, 22 Oct 1975, p. 3: Deliberations of the nine commissions

Neues Deutschland, 22 October 1975, p. 3: "Beratungen der neun Kommissionen", report from the World Congress of Women in East Berlin (International Women's Year). Under the subhead "Schulwesen abhängig von sozialem System" (Commission 5), the Indonesian delegate Sjamsiddar Moerdono is quoted that 51 percent of the coun

GA-02337 1975-11-04 Daily World rel C licensed

PKI leader dies in Nusakambangan camp, 100,000 political prisoners

Daily World, 4 November 1975: PKI leader dies in Nusakambangan camp; 100,000 political prisoners

Daily World, 4 Nov 1975, p. 10: among short news items, a report that Zain Nasution, 50, PKI central committee member and former secretary of its foreign affairs commission, died on 3 October 1975 in Nusakambangan camp after ten years' imprisonment. The PKI estimates at least 100,000 political prisoners face 'slow deat

GA-01511 1975-11-26 South China Morning Post rel B licensed

Indonesia: a fresh start (South China Morning Post, 26 November 1975)

South China Morning Post, 26 Nov 1975, p.22, Kenneth Whiting (AP), 'Indonesia: a fresh start': ten-year retrospective on the 1965 coup and 'bloodbath' (about 300,000 killed, 100,000 jailed, 20,000 political detainees still held), with oil-led economic recovery. A short passage says women were killed if believed to be p

GA-03466 1976-01-10 The New York Times rel B licensed

Freedom, by Sugiarti Siswadi (New York Times, 10 January 1976, p. 20)

Freedom, by Sugiarti Siswadi (New York Times, 10 Jan 1976)

Poem 'Freedom' by Sugiarti Siswadi, printed in the New York Times on 10 January 1976, p. 20 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers). The supplied file contains only the title, author and citation header, not the poem text. The catalogue records Sugiarti Siswadi as a member-name hit and notes a Dutch-language version elsewhere

GA-03464 1976-10 New Internationalist, Oct 1976, pp. 16-17 rel B licensed

New Internationalist, October 1976, pp. 16-17: 'Journalists in Jail' (Indonesia box names Miss Sudjinah, Lies Sukatno)

New Internationalist, Oct 1976: 'Journalists in Jail' (Indonesia entries incl. Sudjinah, Lies Sukatno)

Two-page Amnesty-based list of journalists detained or missing as of 23 April 1976, in New Internationalist (October 1976). Its Indonesia entries include 'Mrs Rusijati '65', 'Miss Sudjinah '66' and 'Lies Sukatno '66', giving only arrest years; no Gerwani link is stated. OCR is rough and the layout mixes countries.