FBIS summary of Manado radio (3 Nov 1965): the North Sulawesi Regional Council pledged to implement Sukarno's 21 October commands and asked him to dissolve the PKI and affiliates including Pemuda Rakjat, Gerwani, SOBSI, BTI, fishermen's front, HSI, Lekra, CGMI, IPPI, Perhimi and Baperki; it urged purges, and trial of d
FBIS summary of Sukarno's 17 Dec 1965 speech at the Perwari anniversary rally. He praised West Irian volunteer Herlina, discussed ideas and 'progressive' versus 'retrogressive' revolutionaries, and defended Nasakom. He ordered a tribunal for those directly involved in Gestok and said those responsible for killing innoc
Two-page FBIS extract (18 Nov 1966) from HathiTrust. The Gerwani-relevant item says PKI Central Committee member Suwarti, called a Gerwani leader, will be tried by the South Sumatra Mahmilub, the first woman Gestapu-PKI leader to be tried. Other items cover Indonesian students in Bulgaria and a radio commentary on rumo
Brief FBIS item (Jakarta radio, 18 Nov 1966): Suwarti, a former PKI Central Committee member described as a Gerwani leader, will soon be tried by the South Sumatra Mahmilub, the first woman leader of the Gestapu-PKI so tried. The regional commander alleged she tried to build an underground PKI chapter there in June.
UK Foreign Office file FCO 15/155 (Feb 1967 to June 1968) of Jakarta embassy letters, press cables and an air attache's report on the Mahmilub trials of Supardjo and Omar Dani, plus a June 1968 note on a Soviet protest over PKI prisoners. Gerwani appears only in the Omar Dani report, as female youth trained at Lubang B