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GA-01469 1955-05-20 Harian Rakjat rel C

Harian Rakjat, 20 Mei 1955, hlm. 1

Harian Rakjat, 20 May 1955, p. 1

Harian Rakjat, 20 Mei 1955, hlm. 1. Front page for National Awakening Day and the PKI's 35th anniversary; Kartini appears as the token woman pioneer; no Gerwani item.

GA-01470 1955-05-21 Harian Rakjat rel C

Harian Rakjat, 21 Mei 1955, hlm. 1

Harian Rakjat, 21 May 1955, p. 1

Harian Rakjat, 21 Mei 1955, hlm. 1. Front page with the CC PKI anniversary message 'Perluas persatuan untuk menang dalam pemilihan umum'; women appear only in cartoons; no Gerwani item.

GA-01474 1955-05-26 Harian Rakjat rel C

Harian Rakjat, 26 Mei 1955, hlm. 1

Harian Rakjat, 26 May 1955, p. 1

Harian Rakjat, 26 Mei 1955, hlm. 1. Front page reporting the PKI's 35th-anniversary celebrations in Jakarta; Aidit's speech and greetings including from 'wanita' at home.

GA-01477 1955-05-27 Harian Rakjat rel B

Harian Rakjat, 27 Mei 1955, hlm. 1

Harian Rakjat, 27 May 1955, p. 1

Harian Rakjat, 27 Mei 1955, hlm. 1. Front page with PM Ali Sastroamidjojo in Canton and 'Wanita tani ditangkap': Subang peasant women arrested during a land reoccupation against the British estate P&T; richest page for Gerwani in the batch.

GA-01492 1956-03-12 Kankakee Daily Journal rel A

Kankakee Daily Journal, 12 Maret 1956: Gerwani member Sansia arrested during Dulles visit to Jakarta

Gerwani member Sansia arrested during Dulles visit to Jakarta (Kankakee Daily Journal, 12 March 1956)

Full 20-page issue of the Kankakee Daily Journal (Illinois), 12 March 1956. Front-page AP/UP report on US Secretary of State Dulles's visit to Jakarta (talks with Sukarno) says police arrested a woman named Sansia, who said she was a member of Gerwani, 'a leftist women's organization founded in 1954', over a banner pro

GA-00381 1965-10-22 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 22 Oktober 1965

Berita Yudha, 22 October 1965

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.

GA-00382 1965-10-26 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 26 Oktober 1965

Berita Yudha, 26 October 1965

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.

GA-00387 1965-11-02 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 2 November 1965

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.

GA-00389 1965-11-09 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 9 November 1965

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.

GA-00395 1965-11-30 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 30 November 1965

Berita Yudha, 30 November 1965. Antara story that 'executioners of Lubang Buaya' interrogated in Bandung, including 19-year-old Sujati alias Jossy, 'confessed' Aidit promised a 'Golden Horse Star' for killing the generals.

GA-00397 1965-12-03 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 3 Desember 1965

Berita Yudha, 3 December 1965

Berita Yudha, 3 Desember 1965. Army's version of the 'confession' of SOBSI chair and Politburo member Njono, with Gerwani items on pp. 1–2.

GA-01697 1965-12-04 Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata, Intisari Berita, 4 Desember 1965

Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 4 December 1965: 'How the PKI poisons children's minds'

Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 4 Desember 1965. Item 'Cara PKI meracuni jiwa anak-anak' claims in PKI kindergartens run by 'Gerwani' women children were taught God does not exist because He could not give pencils; demonisation through religion and education.

GA-01698 1965-12-06 Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata, Intisari Berita, 6 Desember 1965

Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 6 December 1965: speech linking godless knowledge to Lubang Buaya

Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 6 Desember 1965. Speech at the Akademi Bahasa Asing Indonesia warning that godless knowledge led PR, CGMI and Gerwani/PKI to 'strip naked and sleep together at Lubang Buaya' because it held that 'women and men are equal'.

GA-01699 1965-12-07 Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata, Intisari Berita, 7 Desember 1965

Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 7 December 1965: sweeps in Central Java and condemnation of Gerwani

Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 7 Desember 1965. Three Gerwani members seized among 124 people in sweeps in Pemalang, Cilacap, Blora and Boyolali; a statement condemns Gerwani for 'tearing apart the personality of Indonesian women'.

GA-01700 1965-12-10 Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata, Intisari Berita, 10 Desember 1965

Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 10 December 1965: Chaerul Saleh condemns Lubang Buaya terror, Perwa...

Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 10 Desember 1965. Arrest round-up with 'a Gerwani'; Chaerul Saleh condemns the 'terror of Lubang Buaya in which Gerwani took an important part' and announces expulsion of Perwari members also in Gerwani.

GA-00193 1966-01-11 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 11 Januari 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 11 January 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 11 Jan 1966. NTB military order (31 Dec 1965) dissolving the PKI and affiliates including Gerwani, BTI, SOBSI, Lekra, Baperki and Universitas Rakyat (UNRA), confiscating their property; about 66,000 detainees in Central Java.

GA-00195 1966-01-15 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 15 Januari 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 15 January 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 15 Jan 1966. Veterans' Legion denounces a rival delegation at the Havana Tricontinental of 'PKI/Pemuda Rakyat, Gerwani, SOBSI elements'; Siliwangi bans all writings of the PKI and its affiliates.

GA-00203 1966-02-25 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 25 Februari 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 25 February 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 25 Feb 1966, during Untung's Mahmillub trial. A Padang anecdote mocks a PKI figure who called Gerwani 'Gargani' and Lekra 'Lecigak'; new Dwikora cabinet installed.

GA-00206 1966-03-12 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 12 Maret 1966 (edisi Supersemar)

Angkatan Bersendjata, 12 March 1966 (Supersemar Edition)

Angkatan Bersendjata, 12 Mar 1966, the Supersemar issue, with Sukarno's 8 March International Women's Day address, Muslimat NU's Mahmudah Mawardi demanding a PKI ban 'because women feel the effects', and the decree dissolving the PKI.

GA-00406 1966-04-27 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 27 April 1966: 'Taman Kanak² tak ketinggalan tendang G 30 S/PKI'

Berita Yudha, 27 April 1966: Kindergartens not left behind in kicking out G30S/PKI

Berita Yudha, 27 April 1966: 'Taman Kanak² tak ketinggalan tendang G 30 S/PKI'. Press conference of the Federation of Indonesian Kindergartens (GTKI, ~7,000 kindergartens) says it expelled persons and schools linked to G30S/PKI since October 1965; relevant to TK Melati's fate.

GA-00407 1966-05-11 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 11 Mei 1966: 'Kongres Wanita Indonesia' (Barindi)

Berita Yudha, 11 May 1966: Indonesian Women's Congress (Barindi)

Berita Yudha, 11 Mei 1966: 'Kongres Wanita Indonesia' (Barindi). Opinion article on the reorganisation of KOWANI after Subandrio's arrest: removal of coordinator Hurustiati Subandrio and the secretary, with a congress planned; accuses Hurustiati of dictating.

GA-00209 1966-05-14 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 14 Mei 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 14 May 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 14 Mei 1966. Front-page report of Ibu Soeharto telling armed forces wives to adopt their husbands' ideology: 'let it not happen that an ABRI wife becomes a member of Gerwani'.

GA-00410 1966-06-11 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 11 Juni 1966

Berita Yudha, 11 June 1966

Berita Yudha, 11 Juni 1966. Front page: Lt-Gen. Suharto at Perwari's 10th congress, where he is honoured 'Penyelamat Revolusi' and claims 40% of Central Java army units had been infiltrated; Gerwani mentioned.

GA-00211 1966-06-18 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 18 Juni 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 18 June 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 18 Juni 1966. Front-page editorial welcoming KODAM Jaya's ban on Partindo members at MPRS, arguing Partindo drew its members from the PKI, SOBSI, BTI, Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani; Suharto warns against the 'Lubang Buaya trap'.

GA-00213 1966-07-09 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 9 Juli 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 9 July 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 9 Juli 1966. 'Istri-istri ABRI turun tangan': Ny. Nasution says army wives take over social work, hampered earlier by 'Gestapu/PKI such as Gerwani', illustrating the displacement of Gerwani's welfare activities by military wives.

GA-01408 1966-08-01 Harian Kami rel B

Harian Kami, 1 Agustus 1966: 'Aidit, Gerpol PKI & Kita'

Harian Kami, 1 August 1966: 'Aidit, PKI political movement and us'

Harian Kami, 1 Agustus 1966: 'Aidit, Gerpol PKI & Kita'. Rosihan Anwar commentary quoting Aidit's alleged confession as published in the Asahi Evening News and The China Quarterly; mentions Gerwani as a 'gerpol' (political movement) front.

GA-00215 1966-09-13 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 13 September 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 13 September 1966. 'Bung Piket' retrospective names 'the PKI with its accomplices BTI, SOBSI, PR, GERWANI, BAPERKI, HSI, CGMI' as the 'thieves' of October 1965; issue also rich in items on women including Fatmawati Sukarno.

GA-00217 1966-09-20 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 20 September 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 20 September 1966. 'Bung Piket' part 13 asserts the PKI held military training 'under cover of volunteer training à la Lubang Buaya' whose core was PR and Gerwani, in the Fifth Force campaign; editorial on Madiun.

GA-00415 1966-09-25 Berita Yudha rel B

Berita Yudha, 25 September 1966 (edisi Minggu)

Berita Yudha, 25 September 1966 (Sunday edition)

Berita Yudha, 25 September 1966 (edisi Minggu). Gossip exposé tied to the Jusuf Muda Dalam corruption trial names Siti Wahjoeni as ex-'commander' of the Palace young women's corps 'Barisan Bhinneka Tunggal Ika'; Gerwani mentioned as comparison.

GA-00220 1966-10-04 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 4 Oktober 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 4 October 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 4 Oktober 1966. Front-page item: a women's action front states that the 'barbarous acts of Gerwani/PKI at Lubang Buaya' do not spring from the character of Indonesian women, distancing 'true' women from Gerwani.