Gerwani Archive
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2 itemsTopic: Lubang Buaya and sexual slander ✕Organisation: Indonesian National Armed Forces ✕Decade: 1970s ✕
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GA-03050 1970 rel B licensed

Youth and the Wane of Soekarno's Government

Youth and the Wane of Soekarno's Government (Paget, 1970)

Roger Paget's 1970 Cornell PhD thesis on how student and youth action groups, culminating in KAMI, emerged after 1 October 1965 and helped undermine Sukarno. Gerwani appears in several passages: action fronts demanded its banning (p. 44) and its offices were ransacked (p. 63); Herlina denounced it for not fighting Mala

GA-01493 1977-06 Kinesis rel A licensed

Women round the World: Indonesian Women (Kinesis, Juni 1977)

Women round the World: Indonesian Women (Kinesis, June 1977)

Kinesis (Vancouver feminist paper), June 1977, p.10, 'Women round the World': a section on Indonesian women. It says Gerwani, the largest women's organisation (over one million members), was banned for alleged complicity in the 1965 coup and blamed for atrocities; many members suffered torture and sexual abuse in inter