Suara Tani (BTI organ), Feb 1960 (vol. XI no. 2), OCR noisy. Covers BTI protest over price rises, sugar-cane land rents, Khrushchev's coming visit and the Bandung peace conference. On p. 3 an article welcomes the WIDF Bureau session in Jakarta (late Jan 1960), stressing peasant women's backwardness, citing Sri Darnings
Suara Tani (BTI organ), June 1960 (vol. XI no. 6), OCR noisy. Issue marks PKI's 40th anniversary, the DPR-GR, the sharecropping law and the 5-Principles rice method. P. 3 (cont. p. 6) gives short biographies of BTI peasant representatives in the DPR-GR, including Ny. Kartinah Kurdi (Taman Siswa teacher, Yogyakarta, act
OCR of Sinar Harapan, 22 Oct 1962, pages 1-4 (columns interleaved). Gerwani appears in one front-page Antara-style item: Roeslan Abdulgani, chair of the Manipol/USDEK indoctrination committee, lectured before a Gerwani training centre at the Prison Service Academy in Jakarta on 'revolution of rising expectations/explod
Full page 2 of Sinar Harapan, 31 Oct 1962 (noisy OCR, many unrelated items). The Gerwani item reports Jakarta deputy governor Henk Ngantung addressing participants of Gerwani's national training-centre, held for a month in Jakarta with delegations from all Indonesia, urging women to play a positive role in neighbourhoo
Front page of Sinar Harapan, 19 Jul 1963. A women's delegation including Ny. M. Siwi (Gerwani) and Ny. Coa Hin Huy (Wanita Baperki) was received by First Minister Juanda and voiced mothers' anxiety over soaring prices of daily necessities. Another item covers the row at a WIDF (GWDS) session, with the Chinese delegatio
Sinar Harapan, 22 Jan 1964, p. 2. Reports Deputy PM Dr Leimena's written message to the 18-20 January plenary of Gerwani's national leadership (DPP) in Bandung: housewives face food and clothing shortages first-hand, and Gerwani, aware of the causes, should help government programmes. The rest of the page is unrelated
Berita Yudha, 7 Oktober 1965. Week after 30 September: Pemuda Rakyat members captured in Krukut allegedly took part in the Lubang Buaya killings; Sukarno's Bogor cabinet session condemns the killings; Gerwani mentioned on p. 2.
Berita Yudha, 8 Oktober 1965. First issue using 'Gestapu': Gerwani appears five times as an organisation to be dissolved, including Perti, PMKRI and Sarbumusi backing the NU-PSII demand to dissolve 'PKI, PR, Gerwani, CGMI, Lekra'.
Berita Yudha, 12 Oktober 1965. Front-page report that crowds in Yogyakarta (5–6 Oct 1965) put up placards 'Who killed the Heroes of the Revolution? Gerwani-PR' and destroyed PKI and IPPI offices; an early link of Gerwani to the killings.
Berita Yudha, 14 Oktober 1965. Regional items: 105 organisations of South Kalimantan demand dissolution of the PKI and affiliates including Gerwani; Aceh demands; Gerwani listed among organisations to be banned.
Berita Yudha, 18 Oktober 1965. Crowds raiding the Matraman house of 'Gestapu ringleader' Tjugito reportedly found 'a list of Gerwani members who were combat ready' and Gerwani banners; Suharto installed as Army commander.
Berita Yudha, 20 Oktober 1965. Richest issue in the set for Gerwani: Jakarta commander freezes activities of 'PKI, Gerwani, Pemuda Rakyat, BTI, CGMI...' and the women's volunteer corps leader Ibu Soemarno speaks; formal freeze of Gerwani.
Berita Yudha, 21 Oktober 1965. Army information chief alleges 'Gerwani Semarang' ran a public kitchen for 3,000 at the time of the 'coup'; further reports on the fate of Gerwani and the women's federation.
Berita Yudha, 22 Oktober 1965. Page 2 key items on Gerwani after the Cabinet Presidium's 20 Oct instruction to freeze implicated mass organisations in state enterprises and dismiss employees; Riau 'Malaysian' subversion reports.
Berita Yudha, 26 Oktober 1965. Antara: West Java police close and freeze assets of seven private universities suspected of G30S links, including Universitas Rakyat (UNRA) in Bandung and Cirebon; important for the education strand.
Berita Yudha, 27 Oktober 1965. Demonstration of about 300,000 demands the dismissal of Tjugito and Nj. Umi Sardjono from Kotrar; three Gerwani-related items of central importance.
Berita Yudha, 28 Oktober 1965. Youth Pledge Day issue: Central Java under a state of war, 104 dead in Banyuwangi with 62 bodies in three pits; Gerwani item on p. 2.
Berita Yudha, 29 Oktober 1965. Kodam Bukit Barisan report 'Digerebeg di Siantar' claims a Gerwani woman 'trained at Lubang Buaya' was found in a raid in Pematang Siantar, repeating eye-gouging claims.
Berita Yudha, 30 Oktober 1965. Gerwani appears in six items: a Pemuda Rakyat detainee describes Lubang Buaya training of thousands of men and women, seeing 'many members of Gerwani' lined up; one month after 1 October.
Berita Yudha, 2 November 1965. Kowani expelled Gerwani from membership as of 29 October 1965 for being 'clearly involved' in G30S; Muslimat NU chair Mahmudah Mawardi demands action against it.
Berita Yudha, 8 November 1965. Central Java war administration's Maj. Suroto lists 'indications' preceding G30S, starting with 'the demand of Gerwani Semarang for a reduction of the rice price' and unauthorised training in Klaten.
Berita Yudha, 9 November 1965. Front-page 'Peranan dan jeritan kaum ibu' on a demonstration of over 30,000 Jakarta women (8 Nov) organised by the anti-G30S front's women's section; key document of the gendered campaign against Gerwani.
Berita Yudha, 10 November 1965. Heroes' Day issue: the humour column 'Soal silet' treats the razor-blade mutilation story as common knowledge ('barbaric deeds of Gerwani who slashed our generals with razor blades').
Berita Yudha, 16 November 1965. Puspen AD report that the PKI in Ambon dissolved itself and its former Maluku head Umar Lestaluhu instructed PKI, PR, Gerwani, SOBSI, Lekra, IPPI, CGMI and BTI to follow.
Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 18 November 1965. Round-up from Central Java reports 1,636 arrests 'including 16 Gerwani members' and 'self-dissolution' of the PKI and mass organisations in several towns; a second Gerwani item names a woman.
Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 22 November 1965. Arrest in Tebet of Ny. Suning, chair of Gerwani's Jakarta Raya DPD, under an alias; Puspen AD report on the 'self-dissolution' of Gerwani, Baperki, IPPI and Partindo in Purwodadi.
Berita Yudha, 23 November 1965. Front page: Maluku Pepelrada dissolves the PKI and its mass organisations and detains 279 on Ambon in religious language denying the 'godless' PKI the right to live; Gerwani item on p. 2.
Berita Yudha, 24 November 1965. Antara: police and army officer at Harau (Payakumbuh), assisted by villagers, seize 38 Gerwani and 39 PKI members and 'green clothing' and an Aidit book.
Berita Yudha, 26 November 1965. Humour box 'Lagi-lagi soal silet': a lecturer asks 'is there a Gerwani here? why is there a razor blade?', showing the Lubang Buaya razor-blade slander as a classroom joke.
Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 27 November 1965. Serial 'Mengikuti Operasi RPKAD' says the PKI in Klaten held training for Gerwani, PR and BTI, and insists its claims are as true as 'the Gerwani who razored our Heroes of the Revolution'.