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GA-02388 1971-01 rel A

Penyiksaan Para Jenderal Diceritakan: Kesaksian Emi Marijam (Kompas, 12 Januari 1971; terjemahan JPRS)

Torture of the generals recounted: testimony of Emi Marijam (Kompas, 12 January 1971; JPRS translation)

JPRS translation of Kompas, 12 Jan 1971: Emi Marijam, 24, described as a Jakarta Gerwani activist, testifies as witness in the subversion trial of Pemuda Rakjat secretary-general Sukatno. She says she and three women were assigned to torture the generals at Lubang Buaja, gouging eyes for one million rupiah, after train

GA-03345 1971-01-13 The Straits Times rel A

Day woman gouged general's eyes with a knife (Emmy Marjam testimony)

Day woman gouged general's eyes with a knife: Emmy Marjam testimony (Straits Times, 1971)

The Straits Times, 13 January 1971, p. 2: at the special-court trial of Pemuda Rakjat chairman Sukatno, witness Emmy Marjam, 24, a Gerwani member now under arrest, testifies that she gouged a general's eyes with a knife and saw friends mutilate another's genitals at Lubang Buaya after training from 26 Sept. Reported as

GA-02540 1975-02-03 rel A licensed

Subversion Trial (Four Gerwani leaders)

Subversion Trial of Four Gerwani Leaders (FBIS, 3 Feb 1975)

Short FBIS item (Jakarta radio, 3 Feb 1975): four leaders of the PKI-affiliated Gerwani, Mrs Sri Ambar, Sujinah, Sulami and Suharti, went on trial in the Central Jakarta district court on subversion, conspiracy and rebellion charges linked to Gestapu-PKI. The report calls them the first PKI woman leaders to be tried.

GA-02332 1975-07-26 Daily World rel A licensed

Women leaders jailed by Indonesian junta

Daily World, 26 July 1975: Women leaders jailed by Indonesian junta

Daily World (New York), 26 July 1975, p. 9: Foreign Department report that a Jakarta court on 16 June 1975 sentenced four women after a five-month trial: Sulami (general secretary of the Indonesian Women's Movement, 20 years), Sudjinah (magazine editor, 18), Sri Ambar (SOBSI women's section, 15) and Suharti Alimarkaban

GA-01532 1979-08-12 The Observer rel A licensed

Prisoners of Conscience (The Observer, 12 Agustus 1979)

Prisoners of Conscience (The Observer, 12 August 1979)

The Observer, 12 Aug 1979, p.8, 'Prisoners of Conscience': Amnesty International notes up to 20,000 untried political prisoners remain in Indonesia and takes up four women active in Gerwani, arrested 1966 and tried nine years later: Sulami (20 years), Sudjinah (18), Sri Ambar Rukmiati and Suharti Harsono (15 each). It

GA-02884 2002 rel A

Sexual Politics in Indonesia (Saskia Wieringa, 2002)

Saskia Wieringa's 2002 monograph, the foundational history of Gerwani: a semi-autonomous organisation with triple loyalty to feminism, nationalism and socialism, and the New Order's founding on manipulation of sexual symbols through the 1965 slander. Based on interviews with Umi Sardjono, Sulami, Sudjinah, Trimurti and