Le Nouvelliste, 11 October 1965: In Indonesia, the hunt for rebels and communists
Le Nouvelliste (Valais), 11 Oct 1965, 'In Indonesia, rebels and ... communists are hunted down'. A military source claims 90% of rebels arrested and five battalions (4,000 men) took part in the coup. Repeats the AFP account that Muslims ransacked the homes of Aidit and Njoto and then the Gerwani headquarters, with one
Sukarno seeks to restore orderly rule (Globe and Mail, 12 October 1965)
Globe and Mail, 12 Oct 1965, p.8 (NYT/AP/Reuters wire): Sukarno returns to Jakarta and urges normal conditions two weeks after the 30 September coup; the army is cracking down on the PKI, with about 1,000 arrests. Malaysian radio reports a Muslim crowd sacked the Medan branch office of Gerwani, 'the Communist women's o
Suara Merdeka, 12 Oct 1965, p. 1: Krukut 'cleansing operation' claims
Suara Merdeka (Semarang), 12 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1. Berita Yudha-based report on the Krukut 'cleansing operation' of 4–5 October claiming local activists joined the kidnappings and killings at Lubang Buaya. Gerwani is not named.
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 12 October 1965: Normalisation in Indonesia
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 12 Oct 1965, 'Normalisation in Indonesia' (Reuter/UPI wire digest). Items: armed Communists fleeing into Central Java mountains, Antara placed under military management, evacuation of American embassy families, and a Swiss ambassador's credentials. Relevant here: Malaysian radio, citing Radio Jaka
FBIS-monitored Manado radio text (3 Nov 1965), released by the 13th Regional Military Command: PKI chapter and affiliates in Tolitoli, Central Sulawesi, condemned the 30 September Movement, severed ties with PKI leadership and resigned en masse from 15 October, pledging loyalty to Sukarno. Signatories include represent
Njono: PKI coup hastened by Sukarno's illness
Leeuwarder Courant, 1 December 1965, p. 11: relays armed-forces newspaper reports of SOBSI chief Njono's interrogation statements: planning began in July, Aidit's claim that Sukarno was gravely ill was decisive, and Njono was to raise a 2,000-man reserve from PKI, Pemuda Rakjat, Sobsi, BTI and Gerwani members, learning
The G30S-PKI in modern Indonesian novels by post-Reformasi women authors (Efendi et al., 2023)
2023 UNY article on how three post-Reformasi novels by women authors (Ayu Utami's Manjali dan Cakrabirawa, Leila Chudori's Pulang, Laksmi Pamuntjak's Amba) re-interpret facts of G30S, including Buru detention and 'PKI descendant' stigma. Literary context.