Dutch Senate written questions (19 May 1970) by Senator Van Hulst on Indonesian political prisoners, with PM De Jong's answer of 10 June 1970. Context on Dutch parliamentary attention to post-1965 detainees.
De Tijd retrospective on Sukarno's megalomania (22 Jun 1970, after his death): his second marriage to Hartini in 1954 provoked opposition from the monogamy-minded women's movement, then the 1965 coup, Suharto's rise, the March 1966 transfer of powers and the PKI ban. Gerwani is not named.
De Tijd retrospective on Sukarno's megalomania (22 Jun 1970, after his death): his second marriage to Hartini in 1954 provoked opposition from the monogamy-minded women's movement, then the 1965 coup, Suharto's rise, the March 1966 transfer of powers and the PKI ban. Gerwani is not named. Duplicate of GA-00735.
Ottawa Citizen, 17 Dec 1971, p.31 (women's page): a short social note that Mrs. I. Darmo Bandoro will hold a coffee morning on Wednesday 29 Dec at 11 a.m. at the Indonesian embassy to commemorate the Indonesian Women's Movement (the Mother's Day anniversary). The remainder is unrelated (toy torture kits, Christmas safe
Tempo article (online archive, dated 1972) on the political prisoner (tapol) problem: Archbishop Leo Soekoto urges society to help, Amnesty and the Red Cross press Jakarta, Buru resettlement of about 5,000 Group B prisoners is presented as the best option, and officials still see ex-PKI as a threat. No Gerwani content.
ANP radio bulletin, 21 June 1972: 700 Indonesian women and their children will join husbands detained on Buru, where 10,000 alleged communist men have been held for three years. Suharto allowed family reunification, limited to one child per woman; more groups to follow. Gerwani not named but relevant to the fate of pol
Edmonton Journal, 16 Aug 1972, p.20: a column on Women's Studies reviewing the essay collection Woman in Sexist Society. A short passage on non-Western women's status notes that Indonesian women's active economic role, and that the Indonesian women's movement's major goals were abolition of polygamy and divorce by repu
Willem Oltmans's 'Hollands Dagboek' in NRC Handelsblad (22 Sep 1973), entries 13-20 Sept. Covers his New Guinea/Luns campaign, Hatta, Pertamina corruption, Chile 1973 compared to Indonesia 1965 mass murder, and Nasution's letters about Aidit shared by Dewi Sukarno. Lists imprisoned Indonesian writers and journalists. N
Eleven damaged colour prints (June 1974) of dioramas made by Edhi Sunarso's workshop for the Museum Satriamandala, showing oath-taking, assemblies and possibly an exhumation scene. Uncaptioned visual record of the military museum's historical narrative.
Journal article by Reuven Kahane (Contributions to Asian Studies, vol. 5, 1974) giving a structural-sociological explanation of the 1965 coup and army dominance in Indonesia: religious-class polarisation, failing Sukarno-era control mechanisms, and the army's rise. Gerwani appears only in a footnote listing PKI-affilia
De Tijd profile by Anton Koene (8 Feb 1974) of Ratna Sari Dewi Sukarno in Paris, who is serialising her memoirs to clear Sukarno's name over the 1 Oct 1965 coup, rebuts the Widjanarko report in Dake's book and criticises Suharto's regime. Gerwani and Gerwani women are not mentioned.
Photo caption in the Surinamese weekly Vrije Stem (2 Jul 1974): the 'Miss Djawa' contest organised by Trie Djokko Moeljo, won by Mavis Wirioredjo. Concerns Javanese-Surinamese community life; nothing on Indonesia's women's movement or Gerwani.
Official record of the first handover, 30 Sep 1975, of 29 dioramas by Edhi Sunarso to the Armed Forces History Centre for the Museum Pusat ABRI. Documents the production of military-history dioramas that fed the 1965 narrative.
Official record of the second and final handover of 29 dioramas by Edhi Sunarso to Nugroho Notosusanto's Armed Forces History Centre, Dec 1975. Shows the Pusjarah project that produced official military history displays.
Urgent memo no. 741, 22 May 1975, from Pusjarah ABRI asking Edhi Sunarso to send finished diorama figures to the Museum ABRI before a ministry inspection. Administrative record; no Gerwani or 1965 content.
Poster for a three-day congress '10 jaar generaalsbewind in Indonesie' (Nijmegen, 9-11 Oct 1975) with speakers including W.F. Wertheim, Jan Pluvier and Ingrid Palmer. Dutch critical scholarship on the New Order.
Neues Deutschland, 1 February 1975, p. 15 (anniversary supplement for International Women's Year): retrospective 'Paris war das Reiseziel für Delegierte aus aller Welt' on the 1934 World Women's Congress against Fascism and War in Paris. Among the speakers, 'the delegate Siti' (surname not given) brought greetings from
Photograph from the Koleksi Idayu album at Perpusnas Khastara, captioned as Dr. (h.c.) S.K. Trimurti giving a lecture. The album caption OCR reads a title 'Hubungan Pergerakan Buruh Indonesia dengan Pergerakan Kemerdekaan Nasional' dated 14 May 1975; the file name's truncated caption points to the labour and women's mo
Photograph, image 06 of the same Khastara item (575445) as the S.K. Trimurti lecture photograph, from the Yayasan Idayu albums, Perpusnas Khastara. Captioned in the file name as a lecture by Dr. (h.c.) S.K. Trimurti on the relation of the labour movement to the women's movement (title truncated). The OCR gives only the
Dutch Second Chamber written question no. 111 (Aug 1975) by Fred van der Spek and Foreign Minister Van der Stoel's reply, on an Indonesian embassy claim that the Dutch government fully understood Indonesia's political prisoner problem. Context on Dutch diplomacy over post-1965 detainees.
Ann Gregory's Columbia PhD thesis (1976) on the recruitment, career patterns and factions of the Indonesian political elite under Guided Democracy and the New Order, based on elite biographies, with chapters on military and civilian factions. It is a quantitative study of Javanese dominance and clientelism. Gerwani is
Hiroko Horikoshi's 1976 University of Illinois anthropology PhD thesis on kijaji and ulama as traditional leaders in a West Java (Priangan, Cipari) Islamic village, covering kinship, rural economy, the life cycle, the ulama as educators and legal experts, and kijaji charisma. It has almost nothing on Gerwani: a single
Mitsuo Nakamura's 1976 Cornell PhD thesis, an ethnography and local history of the Muhammadiyah reform movement in Kotagede, Yogyakarta, arguing that Islamization of Java is an ongoing, internally generated process. Gerwani appears only in passing (p. 208), listed with Pemuda Rakyat and Lekra as PKI-influenced mass org
Amigoe di Curaçao, 10 Apr 1976: the Curaçao branch of Amnesty International adopts three prisoners, including Sri Kusnapsiah, 67, imprisoned in Indonesia for over ten years. No organisation is named in the text, but the case is of interest as a long-term woman political prisoner from 1965. Also reports 1,688 releases i
Tempo profile of Sawito Kartowibowo, the mystic behind the 1976 'Sawito affair' manifesto, discussing his prophecies of a new 'Sawitan' age. It notes that his essays appeared in Mawas Diri, the monthly led by Dra. S.K. Trimurti. Trimurti appears only incidentally; Gerwani is not mentioned.
Photograph from the Yayasan Idayu S.K. Trimurti albums (Perpusnas Khastara): a PDI (Indonesian Democratic Party) campaign rally at Lapangan Banteng, Jakarta, with speakers including Dra. S.K. Trimurti, Wilopo and Moh. Isnaeni. The caption OCR gives 1977, so the 1977 election campaign. S.K. Trimurti is the labour and wo
Photograph from the S.K. Trimurti album series (Koleksi Idayu), National Library of Indonesia (Khastara 582249), of the 21 May 1977 meeting of women fighters at Gedung Kebangkitan Nasional, Jakarta. The album caption page, partly legible, says the meeting marked the founding of the 'Yayasan Wanita Pejuang', chaired by
Photograph from the S.K. Trimurti album series (Koleksi Idayu), National Library of Indonesia (Khastara 582249), of the 21 May 1977 meeting of women fighters at Gedung Kebangkitan Nasional, Jakarta. Image 02 of the album series; no text on the image. Summary is from file name and folder only; individuals shown are not
Photograph from the S.K. Trimurti album series (Koleksi Idayu), National Library of Indonesia (Khastara 582249), of the 21 May 1977 meeting of women fighters at Gedung Kebangkitan Nasional, Jakarta. Image 03 of the album series; no text on the image. Summary is from file name and folder only; individuals shown are not
Photograph from the Yayasan Idayu album of S.K. Trimurti (Perpusnas Khastara 582249, image 04): by its title, a meeting of women fighters (wanita pejuang) at Gedung Kebangkitan Nasional, 21 May 1977. Trimurti's presence is inferred from the album; the file has no text and no named participants.