Gerwani Archive
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2 itemsOrganisation: National Front ✕Place: Central Java ✕Event: Army press sexual slander campaign against Gerwani ✕
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GA-01265 1965-11-09 Leeuwarder Courant rel A

In Midden-Java 251 doden: Vrouwen betogen tegen de PKI (251 dead in Central Java; women demonstrate against the PKI)

251 dead in Central Java; women demonstrate against the PKI

Leeuwarder Courant, 9 November 1965, p. 5: report that about 10,000 housewives, schoolgirls and actresses marched in Jakarta to the National Front office demanding dissolution of Gerwani and state control of communist-run schools, while over a million demanded the PKI's dissolution. Governor Mokhtar says 251 were kille

GA-03050 1970 rel B licensed

Youth and the Wane of Soekarno's Government

Youth and the Wane of Soekarno's Government (Paget, 1970)

Roger Paget's 1970 Cornell PhD thesis on how student and youth action groups, culminating in KAMI, emerged after 1 October 1965 and helped undermine Sukarno. Gerwani appears in several passages: action fronts demanded its banning (p. 44) and its offices were ransacked (p. 63); Herlina denounced it for not fighting Mala