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GA-02376 1965-10-28 rel B licensed

Press Information Relating to Insurgency and Counterinsurgency: South and East Asia (217)

CIA, Press information relating to insurgency and counterinsurgency: South and East Asia (217), 28 October 1965

CIA Foreign Documents Division compilation of Indonesian, Malaysian, Burmese and Cambodian press, 28 Oct 1965. Djakarta's Angkatan Bersendjata (early Oct) is quoted on the 30 September Movement and the Lubang Buaya killings: bodies found near a bivouac of Gerwani and Pemuda Rakjat volunteers, Suharto's remark about a G

GA-02016 1965-11-07 Berita Harian rel B

Berita Harian, 7 November 1965: Wanita hamil belasan tahun mengaku (Lubang Buaya)

Berita Harian, 7 Nov 1965: pregnant teenage woman 'confesses' (Lubang Buaya)

Berita Harian, 7 Nov 1965 (UPI, lead only). Repeats the army newspaper Angkatan Bersenjata: a pregnant teenage woman 'confessed' she took part in hacking and mutilating a bound, blindfolded army general during the coup attempt. An early instance of the Lubang Buaya sexual-slander narrative in the regional press.

GA-03002 2018 rel B

Perempuan Ditekan, Perempuan Melawan (Historia, 2018)

Women suppressed, women resisting (Historia, 2018)

Historia feature (2018) on how the New Order subordinated the women's movement after 1965, branding politically minded women 'like Gerwani' and portraying Gerwani as beautiful but cruel, and how independent organising revived from the 1980s. Draws on Suryakusuma and Murniati.