Conversation on the 35th anniversary of the Dutch Women's Movement (Annie van Ommeren-Averink)
De Waarheid interview (20 Oct 1981, p.5) with Annie van Ommeren-Averink, CPN politician and NVB board member, on the NVB's 35th anniversary. She recalls labour and women's struggles; a photo of Umi Sardjono, freed after years of imprisonment, hangs in her home, last seen in March 1965, and she works for the CPN's Indon
Chance for Women (Canberra Times, 30 October 1982)
Canberra Times, 30 Oct 1982, p. 4 (AAP-AFP): short item citing Jakarta daily Sinar Pagi that seven women could be named candidates for Indonesia's Vice-Presidency, among them S.K. Trimurti, Harsati Subadio, Minister for Women's Affairs L. Sutanto and several officials' wives. Gerwani not mentioned.
Chance for Women (Canberra Times, 30 October 1982), duplicate
Canberra Times, 30 Oct 1982, p. 4 (AAP-AFP): short item citing Jakarta daily Sinar Pagi that seven women could be named candidates for Indonesia's Vice-Presidency, among them S.K. Trimurti, Harsati Subadio, Minister for Women's Affairs L. Sutanto and several officials' wives. Gerwani not mentioned.
Untung (Djoko Untung and Gatot Sutarjo sentenced to death)
De Waarheid item (21 Aug 1985, p.3) profiling death-row PKI prisoners Djoko Untung and Gatot Sutarjo, sentenced at Blitar on 2 Jan 1976, with Suharto rejecting clemency. Untung's wife Natsia, a known East Java Gerwani member, was arrested in 1968 and still imprisoned; Sutarjo's wife Poedji Aswati was jailed for 15 year
Ties (Joop Morrien on ties between CPN and PKI)
De Waarheid profile (11 Nov 1985, p.15) of CPN's Joop Morriën, who spent eight months in Indonesia in 1954 (Java tour, Yogyakarta artists' colony, meetings with unionists and Gerwani members) and planned Dutch-language book publication. He recalls being treated as PKI representative on the Prague journal 'Problems of P
Newspapers then and now (National Press Day, PWI), Berita Harian, 24 Feb 1987
Berita Harian feature of 24 Feb 1987 by I.A. Makmur Makka on the press then and now, tied to Indonesia's National Press Day and the PWI anniversary at Hotel Indonesia. Only the lead snippet was retrieved; it does not name S.K. Trimurti, and the sweep's Trimurti match is unverified. Little direct Gerwani relevance.
Twice Indonesia (announcement of Kartini evening)
Front-page De Waarheid listing (9 Apr 1988) of paper contents and events: Jan de Wit's story as a refuser, an essay on Kartini by Annie van Ommeren-Averink, a VPRO radio series on conscientious objectors, and a 21 April Kartini evening at the Tropenmuseum where Wertheim speaks and Francisca Fanggidaej discusses the pos
The Chinese: at school parties we were equal, that was modern (Go Gien Tjwan)
Interview with Dr Go Gien Tjwan in NRC Handelsblad's 'Hun Indië' series (30 Apr 1988): memories of peranakan Chinese life in colonial Malang, racial hierarchy, schooling, Chinese revival in the 1930s and student politics at Batavia under Wertheim. Background on Chinese Indonesians; no Gerwani content.
De Waarheid obituary-style note (15 Oct 1988, p.7) on Trees Sunito-Heyligers, Dutch lawyer who defended the Schoonhoven refusers and Piet van Staveren and was first chair of the Nederlandse Vrouwen Beweging (NVB) in 1946; her husband chaired Perhimpunan Indonesia. It summarises her defence arguments linking refusal to
Well-attended meeting in Amsterdam: East Timor must be free
De Waarheid report (24 Nov 1988, p.3) on a Komitee Indonesië solidarity evening in Amsterdam for East Timor, thirteen years after Fretilin's independence declaration. Francisca Fanggidaej, former MP from West Timor, says both Indonesians and East Timorese are victims of Suharto's regime; Fretilin's Abilio de Araujo pre
Harian Neraca serial 'Siapa menabur angin akan menuai badai' (65): Njono's confession and Untung as 'puppet'
Harian Neraca, 18 Maret 1989, p. 10: instalment 65 of Soegiarso Soerojo's serial. Covers Njono's confession on training at Lubang Buaya and opens a chapter on Untung as 'puppet'; names Mudigdio, mother of Aidit's wife, as a Gerwani figure.
Harian Neraca serial 'Siapa menabur angin akan menuai badai' (90): South Blitar captures; 'Gerwani leaders try to flee'
Harian Neraca, 18 April 1989, p. 10: instalment 90 of Soegiarso Soerojo's serial. July 1968 captures in South Blitar; sub-chapter 'Gerwani leaders try to flee' on hunting Gerwani women Ny. Lies Soekatno (alias Djemirah), Bu Djoyo, Ny. Moedji and others.
Indonesian communist free after 20 years in prison (Sundari Abdulrachman)
Front-page De Waarheid report (23 Aug 1989) on the release on 17 August of Sundari Abdulrachman, PKI central committee member and former MP, after over twenty years' imprisonment (arrested Lampung Nov 1968; life sentence 1976, commuted 1982). Notes 51 PKI members still held, fourteen under death sentence, and fourteen