Pravda no. 182, 1 July 1963 (excerpt). Prints the WIDF programme adopted at its Moscow congress (29 June 1963): equal rights, peasant women, children, peace, national independence, solidarity with persecuted women. Lists new Bureau members, including Umi Sardjono (Indonesia, spelled 'Umisa Sardjono').
Chinese-published pamphlet (Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1963) with statements and a report by Yang Yun-yu attacking Soviet and WIDF leaders at the June 1963 Moscow World Congress of Women over anti-imperialism versus disarmament and peaceful coexistence. It records the Indonesian delegation, led by Umi Sardjono, s
Book by PKI chairman D.N. Aidit (Demos, 1963) collecting his writings on the Indonesian revolution. Beyond the opening chapters, a passage on the Madiun affair (p. 128) records that Mrs Mudigdio and A.M. Tambunan put parliamentary questions on 9 December 1950 about the 1948 killing of Amir Sjarifuddin and ten comrades.
RAND paper P-2690 by Guy J. Pauker (Jan 1963, for Asian Survey), 'Indonesia: Towards Development or Expansionism?'. Surveys the West New Guinea settlement, the lifting of the state of emergency, PKI strength (Aidit versus Lukman factions), inflation, Soviet arms debt and the Brunei revolt. Mentions Gerwani once, as a P
Official history of the Indonesian youth movement (1908-1960) compiled by the Youth Bureau of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Balai Pustaka, Jakarta 1965 (prefaces dated Dec. 1963), in five periods. Gerwani appears only briefly: it is listed among organisations demanding action against the 1957-58 PRRI separatis
Pravda, 1 August 1965 (No. 213), pp. 1-2: TASS communique on the 7-31 July 1965 visit of a PKI delegation led by D.N. Aidit to the USSR, with talks with Brezhnev and Suslov, plus a notice of its departure. Umi Sardjono (Gerwani's leader) is listed as candidate member of the PKI Central Committee in the delegation. Gerw
Pravda no. 213, 1965 (excerpt; issue likely 1 August). Official communique on a PKI delegation's stay in the USSR, 7-31 July 1965: Aidit (head), Karel Supit, Ruslan Kamaluddin, Nungtjik A.R., candidate CC member Umi Sardjono, and an Aliarcham Academy representative; visits to Uzbekistan and Moscow, talks with Brezhnev'
Pravda no. 23, 23 January 1965 (full issue). Page 1 lists guests at a Kremlin luncheon for the WFTU Executive Bureau, including WFTU secretary Setiati Surasto and SOBSI deputy chairman Murdjoko. Page 3 reports Indonesia's notice of withdrawal from the UN over Malaysia's Security Council seat. No Gerwani content beyond
Pravda no. 23, 23 January 1965. File contains only a header line (title, archive link) and no article text; presumably a placeholder for the Setiati Surasto/WFTU item in the full-issue record.
Pravda no. 280, 7 October 1965 (full issue). Page 3 TASS item 'On the events in Indonesia' (Jakarta, 6 Oct): Nahdlatul Ulama and other groups, via Angkatan Bersendjata, demand Sukarno ban the PKI, Pemuda Rakyat, Gerwani, SOBSI; mass arrests of Communists; Sukarno urges calm ('saving the revolution is more important tha
Pravda no. 280, 7 October 1965 (excerpt of the page). Page 3 TASS item 'On the events in Indonesia' (Jakarta, 6 Oct): Nahdlatul Ulama and other groups, via Angkatan Bersendjata, demand Sukarno ban the PKI, Pemuda Rakyat, Gerwani, SOBSI; mass arrests of Communists; Sukarno urges calm ('saving the revolution is more impo
Pravda, c. 27 October 1965 (No. 300), 'The Situation in Indonesia': two short TASS dispatches from Jakarta dated 26 October. They report Sukarno and Subandrio on the 30 September Movement and ongoing repression of the PKI. Gerwani is mentioned once, among organisations banned by military authorities in North Sulawesi a
Pravda no. 300, 1965 (excerpt; TASS dispatch dated Jakarta, 26 Oct). Reports Sukarno ordering police and army to fire on those destroying Communist property, and military bans on the PKI, SOBSI and BTI in East Java and East Sulawesi; in North Sulawesi the ban also covers Gerwani. Rest is unrelated (OAU, Rhodesia, econo
Pravda no. 327, 23 November 1965 (full issue). Page 1 TASS item 'The situation in Indonesia' (Jakarta, 22 Nov): arrests of 1,600 in South Kalimantan; in Central Java 1,630 (Wonogiri), 820 (Sragen), 711 (Boyolali), over 2,200 (Klaten), said by ANTARA to be members of PKI, Gerwani, Pemuda Rakyat, BTI, Partindo; Subandrio
Pravda no. 327, 23 November 1965 (excerpt of the page). Page 1 TASS item 'The situation in Indonesia' (Jakarta, 22 Nov): arrests of 1,600 in South Kalimantan; in Central Java 1,630 (Wonogiri), 820 (Sragen), 711 (Boyolali), over 2,200 (Klaten), said by ANTARA to be members of PKI, Gerwani, Pemuda Rakyat, BTI, Partindo;
CIA 'Indonesian Situation' report no. 61, 14 November 1965: continuing anti-communist action and mass killings, Aidit's presumed whereabouts, and 1,000 women demonstrating in Jakarta for permanent dissolution of the PKI women's auxiliary. Records an early anti-Gerwani mobilisation.
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.
Full May 1965 issue of Women of the Whole World (WIDF), a commemorative number for the 20th anniversary of victory over Nazism: women in the resistance, wartime memoirs and Sholokhov's story, Coventry, Leningrad, Warsaw, Lidice-type massacres, Dresden and Hiroshima, plus peace, Vietnam and anticolonial pieces. Indonesi
Scinteia (Bucharest), 18 Jul 1965, p. 1: report on arrival of the PKI delegation for the 4th Congress of the Romanian Workers' Party. Delegation: D.N. Aidit (head), Karel Supit, Umi Sardjono (PKI CC alternate member, Gerwani chair) and Anwar Dharma of Harian Rakjat; met by Ceausescu. Setiati Surasto, named in the metad
Pravda, 17 November 1965 (No. 321), 'The Situation in Indonesia': TASS dispatches of 16 November on the removal of 62 MPs, a purge operation in Jepara (315 arrests), a curfew in Makassar and a planned army purge. Gerwani is named once, among left-wing organisations (with SOBSI and BTI) banned in the Moluccas by Brig. G
Pravda no. 321, 16 November 1965 (excerpt). TASS dispatch from Jakarta: 62 MPs (about 25 per cent) removed for alleged involvement in the 30 September Movement; the Moluccas commander Brig. Gen. Busiri temporarily bans the PKI, SOBSI, Gerwani and BTI; 315 arrested near Jepara; curfew in Makassar; planned army purge. Ot
Anonymous silent black-and-white documentary footage (30:51), 1965-68, uploaded to the Internet Archive in 2023, titled 'Victims of the barbarity of G30S-PKI'. Frames show army officers, mourners at funerals of the murdered generals (caption 'Mitze Farre, sister of Pierre Tandean') and soldiers searching a 'PKI member'
Army-published official record of the first Mahmillub trial, of PKI Politburo member Njono (1966), with decrees, indictment and proceedings; printed in 21,000 copies. Primary source on the legal framing of the 30 September Movement.
Army-published record of the second Mahmillub trial, of Lt. Col. Untung, commander of the 30 September Movement: indictment, eleven sessions (23 Feb-7 Mar 1966), witnesses, pleas; printed in 10,000 copies. Primary source on the official case.
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
Pravda, 19 Feb 1967 (No. 50), OCR excerpt re-captured from archive.org with the TASS item 'Arrests continue'. After arrests of PKI CC candidate Anwar Nasution and Pemuda Rakyat leaders, the security forces arrested PKI CC member Rachmat and three members of Gerwani's central leadership in Jakarta. Names not given; rest
Tricontinental Bulletin no. 21 (Havana, December 1967), organ of OSPAAAL. A passage denouncing the Suharto-Nasution regime says thousands of men and women suffer torture in Indonesian prisons and names those sentenced to death: Njono, Sudisman, Sakirman, Rewang, Latief, Sujono, 'Sutanti, Aidit', Omar Dani. The printed
Tricontinental Bulletin no. 21 (Havana, December 1967), organ of OSPAAAL. A passage denouncing the Suharto-Nasution regime says thousands of men and women suffer torture in Indonesian prisons and names those sentenced to death: Njono, Sudisman, Sakirman, Rewang, Latief, Sujono, 'Sutanti, Aidit', Omar Dani. The printed
Legislatif Jaya, the monthly magazine of the Jakarta provincial legislature (DPRD-GR DCI Jakarta), bound volume for 1969-70 under Governor Ali Sadikin. It carries council news, committee reports, regulations, speeches (including a Kartini Day address on women's duty, 1970) and a register of council decisions of 1966. T
RAND memorandum RM-5753-PR (Feb 1969), Guy J. Pauker, 'The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Indonesia'. Argues, from trial records, that Aidit planned the 30 September action against the generals and traces PKI strategy, the Chinese turn, the agrarian 'unilateral actions' and the killings (up to 300,000), and th