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GA-02632 1961-10 rel A licensed

US Embassy reports on women's organizations in Indonesia and friendship-society regulation, Oct 1961

US Embassy Reports on Women's Organizations and Friendship-Society Regulation, Oct 1961

US Embassy Djakarta despatches, Oct 1961: transmittal of the July 1961 war-administrator regulation on international friendship societies, and the report 'Role of Women in Indonesia: Women's Organizations' with a memorandum of conversation with Maria Ulfah Santoso (8 March 1961) and biographic notes. It describes Gerwa

GA-02356 1962 rel A

The Communist Movement in Indonesia (memorandum CIA, 1962)

CIA memorandum, 15 August 1962: The communist movement in Indonesia

CIA memorandum, 15 August 1962, surveying organised communism in Indonesia; Gerwani has one entry (claimed 800,000 members, WIDF affiliate, valued as propaganda instrument). Gives US estimates of PKI front strength.

GA-02375 1965-10-25 rel A

Bi-Weekly Propaganda Guidance (WIDF 20th anniversary; Gerwani; 30 September Movement)

CIA Bi-Weekly Propaganda Guidance, 25 October 1965: WIDF 20th anniversary, Gerwani and the 30 September Movement

CIA Bi-Weekly Propaganda Guidance, 25 Oct 1965, calendar and background on the 30 September coup. It notes WIDF's 20th anniversary (26 Nov), lists GERWANI among PKI women's fronts (p.21), and repeats that about 3,000 PKI youth and women's group cadres were trained at Halim air base in September, with Gerwani and Pemuda