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GA-02772 1965 rel C

Siaran RRI 1 Oktober 1965, Dewan Revolusi (audio)

RRI Broadcast of 1 October 1965: The Revolutionary Council (Audio)

Audio (9:23) of the Radio Republik Indonesia broadcast of 1 October 1965 announcing the 30 September Movement's 'Dewan Revolusi' (Revolutionary Council), uploaded to the Internet Archive; provenance unverified. Primary source for the coup's opening moments; Gerwani not mentioned in the description.

GA-02614 1965-10 rel B licensed

LBJ National Security File: Indonesia, komunis dan politik dalam negeri, Oktober-November 1965 (Indonesia communist parties and internal politics)

LBJ National Security File: Indonesia, Communists and Internal Politics (Oct-Nov 1965)

Compilation from the LBJ National Security File (ProQuest), Oct-Nov 1965: State Department memos, CIA intelligence memoranda and Indonesia Working Group situation reports on the 30 September Movement and army counter-moves. Gerwani appears only in passing: arrests of Gerwani and Pemuda Rakyat members (6 Oct), CIA claim

GA-03338 1965-10-07 Berita Harian rel B

Komunis sembeleh keluarga panglima tentera Jogja (Communists slaughter family of Jogja army commander)

Communists slaughter family of Yogyakarta army commander (Berita Harian, 1965)

Berita Harian, 7 October 1965, p. 1: Radio Yogyakarta claims Col. Katamso's family was slaughtered; fighting at Klaten and Cirebon, where rebels included armed communist youth and Gerwani members; army paper's account of the seven officers' deaths (Yani, Suprapto, Haryono, Parman, Panjaitan, Sutoyo, Tendean) at Lubang

GA-02224 1965-10-12 Thurgauer Zeitung rel B

Die antikommunistische Welle in Indonesien (Gelombang antikomunis di Indonesia)

Thurgauer Zeitung, 12 October 1965: The anti-communist wave in Indonesia

Thurgauer Zeitung wire digest, 12 Oct 1965, on the anti-communist wave in Indonesia: Communists fleeing in Central Java, an angry crowd burning Gerwani premises in Aceh (per Radio Djakarta), Untung's capture, Antara placed under Army control, and Sukarno's remarks on 'imperialists'. Gerwani appears only in one sentence

GA-02926 1966 rel B licensed

Dossier of the Indonesian Drama (New Left Review 36)

Dossier of the Indonesian Drama (Lucien Rey, New Left Review, 1966)

Article by Lucien Rey (New Left Review no. 36, March 1966) reconstructing the 1 October 1965 events as a plot by dissident Central Java officers, plus a translated Asahi Shimbun interview with PKI deputy chair Njoto. Says People's Youth and Gerwani auxiliaries trained at Halim took part in the generals' executions in r