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GA-01672 1966-10-08 Press rel B

Students Demand Trial for Mrs Hartini Sukarno (Press, Christchurch, 8 October 1966)

Students Demand Trial for Mrs Hartini Sukarno (Press, Christchurch, 8 October 1966), photograph clipping

Photograph-only clipping from the Press (Christchurch), 8 Oct 1966: demonstrators with banners and flags in Jakarta, one banner partly legible; illustrates the students' demand to try Hartini Sukarno for patronage of Gerwani. No caption text in this clipping.

GA-01673 1966-10-08 Press rel A

Students Demand Trial for Mrs Hartini Sukarno (Press, Christchurch, 8 October 1966)

Students Demand Trial for Mrs Hartini Sukarno (Press, Christchurch, 8 October 1966), caption clipping

Caption clipping from the Press (Christchurch), 8 Oct 1966: anti-Communist students in Jakarta demand Hartini Sukarno's arrest and trial for economic deviation, affiliation with Communist leaders and patronage of Gerwani, 'whose members are said to have played a major role' in the killing of six Army generals in Octobe

GA-00223 1966-10-18 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 18 Oktober 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 18 October 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 18 Oktober 1966. Minister Soetjipto says the 'Old Order' denied that Gerwani and Pemuda Rakyat 'immorally' trained at Lubang Buaya while the New Order has found photo and film documentation made by participants.

GA-00225 1966-10-29 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 29 Oktober 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 29 October 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 29 Oktober 1966. Satirical column where a visitor must declare whether he took part in 'Lubang Buaya training'; the mention of Gerwani reflects the pervasive loyalty-screening culture.

GA-01537 1966-10-29 The Scotsman rel C licensed

Not the old Subandrio (The Scotsman, 29 Oktober 1966)

Not the old Subandrio (The Scotsman, 29 October 1966)

The Scotsman, 29 Oct 1966, 'Not the old Subandrio': profile of Sukarno's former foreign minister, condemned to death by a military tribunal for treason and bearing 'heavy responsibility for the rise of the PKI'. It traces his career and notes he is a scapegoat the Suharto regime can blame while Sukarno is retained for

GA-02008 1966-11-06 Sinar Harapan rel B

Sinar Harapan, 6 November 1966 (edisi Minggu)

Sinar Harapan, 6 Nov 1966: customs purge expose; official's wife a 'Gerwani ringleader'

Sinar Harapan, 6 November 1966 (edisi Minggu). Exposé demanding a deeper purge of Customs; customs inspector Heru Basoeki was arrested with 'his wife, a Gerwani ringleader', yet reinstated and posted to Tanjung Pinang.

GA-02012 1966-12-17 Sinar Harapan rel B

Sinar Harapan, 17 Desember 1966

Sinar Harapan, 17 Dec 1966: Dharsono at KAMI Puteri Mother's Day commemoration

Sinar Harapan, 17 Desember 1966. Dharsono at a KAMI Puteri Hari Ibu commemoration says 'Gerwani/Gestapu/PKI' honoured heroes only as a mask; a second Gerwani hit in a serialised verdict digest.

GA-03331 1966-12-21 Berita Harian rel A

Isteri Aidit ditangkap (Army seizes Aidit's wife)

Army seizes Aidit's wife (Berita Harian, 1966)

Berita Harian, 21 December 1966, p. 1, UPI: the wife of D.N. Aidit, described as a leader of the communist women's section (Gerwani), is arrested; per the paper 'Harian Perang' she had been watched since the coup and stayed very active as a fugitive. Short item; she is not named in the text.

GA-00574 1966-12-22 Amigoe di Curacao rel C

Actie houdt aan tegen Soekarno (Action against Sukarno continues)

Action against Sukarno continues

Amigoe di Curaçao wire report, 22 Dec 1966: Indonesian chiefs of staff warn against illegal action as students demand Sukarno resign over the 1965 coup. A Mother's Day meeting of women's organisations at Sukarno's palace (organised by the PNI women's league) was boycotted by other groups including the women's action fr

GA-02123 1967 Pravda rel A

Pravda, 19 February 1967, No. 50: Arrests in Jakarta (PKI, Pemuda Rakjat, Gerwani)

Pravda, 19 Feb 1967: arrests in Jakarta (PKI, Pemuda Rakjat, Gerwani)

Pravda, 19 February 1967 (No. 50): a short TASS item 'Arrests' (p. 1) citing Sinar Harapan on arrests in Jakarta of PKI figures. It reports that security forces arrested three members of the central leadership of the women's organisation 'Gervani' [Gerwani], along with a PKI CC member. A page 5 item covers the MPRS rej

GA-00290 1967-01-06 The Canberra Times rel B

Sukarno will explain his actions (Canberra Times, 6 Januari 1967)

Sukarno Will Explain His Actions (Canberra Times, 6 January 1967)

Canberra Times, 6 Jan 1967, p. 1 (AAP): Sukarno promises a written account of his policies and role in the 1965 coup within a week; Cabinet Presidium plans debt-rescheduling teams; Indonesia to hold West Irian plebiscite in 1969. A brief item says Mrs Tanti Aidit, wife of the dead PKI chairman, captured last month, wil

GA-00291 1967-01-06 The Canberra Times rel B

Sukarno will explain his actions (Canberra Times, 6 Januari 1967)

Sukarno Will Explain His Actions (Canberra Times, 6 January 1967), duplicate

Canberra Times, 6 Jan 1967, p. 1 (AAP): Sukarno promises a written account of his policies and role in the 1965 coup within a week; Cabinet Presidium plans debt-rescheduling teams; Indonesia to hold West Irian plebiscite in 1969. A brief item says Mrs Tanti Aidit, wife of the dead PKI chairman, captured last month, wil

GA-00231 1967-02-13 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 13 Februari 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 13 February 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 13 Februari 1967. Issue on the DPR-GR resolution and memorandum (9 Feb 1967) on Sukarno's accountability for G30S/PKI; Gerwani mentioned in an inner-page item.

GA-00587 1967-02-17 ANP Radiobulletin rel A

ANP Nieuwsbericht, 17-02-1967 (Indonesia: four PKI leaders arrested)

ANP news report, 17 February 1967 (Indonesia: four PKI leaders arrested)

ANP radio bulletin, 17 Feb 1967: four prominent banned-PKI members arrested in Jakarta, three of them Central Committee members (Rachmat, 'Mrs Soedjimah' [Sudjinah] and Mrs Soelami [Sulami]). The last two were also leading figures in Gerwani. Documents the arrest of two top Gerwani leaders.

GA-00292 1967-04-03 The Canberra Times rel B

A fighting editor: Jogjakarta (Canberra Times, 3 April 1967)

A Fighting Editor: Jogjakarta (Canberra Times, 3 April 1967)

Canberra Times, 3 Apr 1967, p. 2: Creighton Burns profiles Jussac Margo Rahardjo, editor of Pelopor Jogja, a former Radio Australia announcer turned anti-Communist propagandist. In 1965 local authorities, he says, used Gerwani, which then controlled the Jogjakarta federation of women's associations, as 'the lever' to p

GA-00293 1967-04-03 The Canberra Times rel B

A fighting editor: Jogjakarta (Canberra Times, 3 April 1967)

A Fighting Editor: Jogjakarta (Canberra Times, 3 April 1967), duplicate

Canberra Times, 3 Apr 1967, p. 2: Creighton Burns profiles Jussac Margo Rahardjo, editor of Pelopor Jogja, a former Radio Australia announcer turned anti-Communist propagandist. In 1965 local authorities, he says, used Gerwani, which then controlled the Jogjakarta federation of women's associations, as 'the lever' to p

GA-00232 1967-04-21 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 21 April 1967 (Hari Kartini)

Angkatan Bersendjata, 21 April 1967 (Hari Kartini). Small Antara item: an RPKAD climbing team on Merapi found a skeleton locals said was 'probably a woman member of Gerwani' who fled arrest; Kartini Day editorial.

GA-00233 1967-04-27 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 27 April 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 27 April 1967. South Kalimantan governor Aberani Sulaiman says mothers must 'eradicate women of the Gerwani type, the Lubang Buaya type' to realise 'true Indonesian women'; KOWANI Kartini meeting.

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-01268 1967-05-24 Leeuwarder Courant rel C

Achter het nieuws (Behind the news: Chinese in Indonesia)

Behind the news: Chinese in Indonesia

Leeuwarder Courant, 24 May 1967, p. 1: front-page background column on the persecution of ethnic Chinese in Indonesia after 1965, citing camps in Medan, roundups in Borneo, closed Chinese schools in East Java, and the mass killings of communists and suspects in which Chinese families died. The tone is stereotyping. Ger

GA-02045 1967-06-22 The Straits Times rel A

The Straits Times, 22 June 1967: Woman Red gets life sentence

Straits Times, 22 Jun 1967: woman Red gets life sentence (Palembang)

Straits Times, 22 Jun 1967 (lead only). A special military tribunal in Palembang sentenced Mrs Suwardiningsih, a local communist leader, to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1965 coup attempt; she was the first woman tried by that tribunal.

GA-01410 1967-07-05 Harian Kami rel A

Harian Kami, 5 Juli 1967

Harian Kami, 5 July 1967: Sudisman's lawyers and witnesses

Harian Kami, 5 Juli 1967. List of Sudisman's three defence lawyers and 22 witnesses for his Mahmillub trial includes two Gerwani leaders with underground aliases, including Sulami (alias Siti Alfiah).

GA-00234 1967-07-09 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 9 Juli 1967 (edisi Mingguan)

Angkatan Bersendjata, 9 July 1967 (Weekly Edition)

Angkatan Bersendjata, 9 Juli 1967 (edisi Mingguan). Family column 'Jadilah seorang wanita yang baik' defines womanhood through motherhood and invokes 'how savage and cruel Gerwani women' were in torturing the generals, using the slander as a moral counterexample.

GA-03326 1967-07-11 Berita Harian rel A

Ketua Komunis Jawa Barat di-tawan dekat Bandung (Gerwani members arrested)

Communist leader in West Java captured near Bandung: Gerwani members arrested (Berita Harian, 1967)

Berita Harian, 11 July 1967, p. 3, Reuters: the army announces capture near Bandung of Yakob Margolang, who allegedly tried to form a new Communist party in West Java; several women believed to be members of Gerwani, 'the secret organisation of Communist women', were also arrested. Context: army warnings against pro-Su

GA-00236 1967-08-05 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 5 Agustus 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 5 August 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 5 Agustus 1967. Siliwangi commander Dharsono hands West Java prosecutors case files of 141 'G.30.S/PKI persons' from Pemuda Rakyat, BTI, SOBSI, Gerwani and Lekra; Sukarno confined to Bogor.

GA-01411 1967-09-01 Harian Kami rel A

Harian Kami, 1 September 1967

Harian Kami, 1 September 1967: arrest of Nyonya Djubaedah

Harian Kami, 1 September 1967. Arrest in Jakarta on 29 Aug 1967 of Nyonya Djubaedah, wife of Nun Tjik AR, called 'cashier of Gerwani' and 'G30S/PKI ringleader', after two years in hiding; includes her biography.

GA-01316 1967-09-02 Nieuwsblad Van Het Noorden rel A

Rode Kruis krijgt nieuwe uniformen (Red Cross gets new uniforms; note on arrest of Gerwani's former treasurer)

Red Cross gets new uniforms (note on arrest of Gerwani's former treasurer)

Nieuwsblad van het Noorden, 2 September 1967, p. 7: page-column item on new Red Cross uniforms, followed by a short wire note that Mrs Djoebaedah, former treasurer of the PKI women's movement (Gerwani), was arrested in Jakarta, per an Indonesian paper, accused of taking part in the torture and murder of six generals on

GA-03577 1967-09-03 Szolnok Megyei Néplap rel B

Arrest of Mrs Djubaedah, leftist organisation (Szolnok Megyei Néplap, 3 September 1967)

Arrest of Mrs Djubaedah, leftist organisation (Szolnok Megyei Neplap, 3 Sep 1967)

Hungarian county daily, 3 Sep 1967: a search snippet states that Mrs Djubaedah was arrested on charges of taking part in 'the events', described as belonging to one of the banned leftist organisations (text cut off). The sweep identifies her as Djubaedah (Zubaidah Nungtjik A.R.); unverified. Page OCR not retrieved.

GA-00575 1967-09-06 Amigoe di Curacao rel B

Oud-penningmeesteres P.K.I. gearresteerd (Former PKI treasurer arrested)

Former PKI treasurer arrested

Amigoe di Curaçao, 6 Sept 1967: Mrs Djoebaedah, former treasurer of the PKI women's movement (i.e. Gerwani, not named), was arrested in Jakarta after being a fugitive. She is accused of taking part in the torture and murder of six generals on 1 October 1965; documents were reportedly found. Typical New Order framing of

GA-00733 1967-09-29 De Tijd rel B

Executies in Indonesië (Executions in Indonesia)

Executions in Indonesia: Untung and others, with Gerwani blamed

De Tijd commentary by C.H. Schaap (29 Sep 1967) on the executions of Untung and others for the 1965 coup. It says the generals were killed at Halim by "volunteers" trained by Maj. Sujono, "among them members of the communist women's organisation Gerwani", and notes the trials were broadcast and published.