The Guardian, 11 Oct 1973, p.8, Peter Cole: Amnesty International launches Prisoner of Conscience Week with ten emblematic torture cases. One is an Indonesian woman, Mrs Sri Ambar[...] (surname cut off in OCR), head of the women's department of the SOBSI trade union federation, who after arrest in 1966 was stripped nak
Swiss Thurgauer Zeitung, 12 October 1973, a dpa wire report on Amnesty International's 'Week of the Political Prisoner' campaign against torture, naming ten torture victims. The Indonesian Sri Ambar (Sri Ambar Rukmiati per the sweep log) is said to have been beaten stripped and hung naked by her wrists a whole night. H
Swiss newspaper page (Walliser Bote, 12 Oct 1973) of agency news, mostly German Ostpolitik and Swiss matters. A short item on Amnesty International's anti-torture campaign says that the Indonesian woman Sri Ambar was beaten naked and hung by her wrists for a whole night; the catalogue identifies her as Sri Ambar Rukmia
Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, 19 January 1978, p. 5, feature by George Oliver on the release of 10,000 political prisoners held since the 1965 coup, with PKI members forced to swear loyalty. It describes the Category A, B, C system, the 1965-66 massacres (estimates up to half a million killed), Amnesty International's
Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, 19 January 1978, p. 5, clean OCR of George Oliver's feature on the release of 10,000 political prisoners held since the 1965 coup (same article as GA-00267). It covers the official and alternative accounts of 30 September, killings of perhaps half a million, half to three-quarters of a mi
The Observer, 14 Oct 1979, p.2, Ian Mather, 'Children are tortured': on an Amnesty International report on torture of children in many countries. For Indonesia it reports that the daughter of Sri Ambar, a woman trade unionist, was tortured in her mother's presence and disappeared, that many children arrested in 1965 re
Tempo book review (29 Aug 1999) of Carmel Budiardjo's prison memoir on New Order detention (Likdam, Bukit Duri, 'bon' interrogations, ET stigma). It records her witness to teenage women political prisoners tortured to make the script of Gerwani's involvement in the Lubang Buaya killings work, and notes she founded Tapo