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GA-01076 1965-10-07 Het Rotterdamsch Parool rel A

Film van moord op generaals

Film of murder of generals

Het Rotterdamsch Parool/ANP report (7 Oct 1965, p.1): Jakarta television showed a film of the exhumation of seven officers from the well at Lubang Buaya, with Suharto, voice trembling, saying the bodies were found near the air-force base training Pemuda Rakjat men and 'Gerwani' (for women) volunteers. A female voluntee

GA-00376 1965-10-12 Berita Yudha rel B

Berita Yudha, 12 Oktober 1965

Berita Yudha, 12 October 1965

Berita Yudha, 12 Oktober 1965. Front-page report that crowds in Yogyakarta (5–6 Oct 1965) put up placards 'Who killed the Heroes of the Revolution? Gerwani-PR' and destroyed PKI and IPPI offices; an early link of Gerwani to the killings.

GA-00379 1965-10-20 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 20 Oktober 1965

Berita Yudha, 20 October 1965

Berita Yudha, 20 Oktober 1965. Richest issue in the set for Gerwani: Jakarta commander freezes activities of 'PKI, Gerwani, Pemuda Rakyat, BTI, CGMI...' and the women's volunteer corps leader Ibu Soemarno speaks; formal freeze of Gerwani.

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-01701 1965-12-14 Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata, Intisari Berita, 14 Desember 1965

Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 14 December 1965: Sukarno rejects stories of mutilation at Lubang B...

Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 14 Desember 1965. Reports Sukarno's address (13 Dec) rejecting press stories of genital mutilation and eye-gouging at Lubang Buaya; 18 Gerwani among 228 detained in Wonosobo; a Gerwani leader beaten by her own members.

GA-00218 1966-10-01 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 1 Oktober 1966 (edisi Hari Kesaktian Pancasila pertama)

Angkatan Bersendjata, 1 October 1966 (First Hari Kesaktian Pancasila Edition)

Angkatan Bersendjata, 1 Oktober 1966 (edisi Hari Kesaktian Pancasila pertama). First-anniversary issue and the richest Gerwani source in the batch: prints the official 'Risalah singkat tragedi nasional' claiming officers were tortured 'beyond humanity by members of Pemuda Rakyat and GERWANI', plus 'Bung Piket' retrospe

GA-00949 1979-03-24 De Waarheid rel A

Gerwani (Annie van Ommeren over Tanti Aidit en de hetze tegen Gerwani)

Gerwani (Annie van Ommeren on Tanti Aidit and the witch-hunt against Gerwani)

De Waarheid, 24 Mar 1979, p. 8: excerpt from Annie van Ommeren on Tanti Aidit, board member of Gerwani, sister organisation of the NVB. She says Gerwani had one million members, was the target of a huge smear campaign during and after the 1965 coup, with women accused of atrocities, which found fertile ground among rea

GA-00965 1985-09-30 De Waarheid rel B

De bewogen aanklacht van Mohammad Munir

The moving indictment of Mohammad Munir

De Waarheid (30 Sep 1985, p.5) excerpts the 1973 defence plea of PKI/union leader Mohammad Munir, executed in May 1985, before a military tribunal. He describes the post-October 1965 hate campaign aimed at PKI, Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani, the mass killings and camps; an editorial note says the generals' deaths were used

GA-02891 2007 rel A

Lubang Buaya: Myth, Misogyny and Massacre (Drakeley, 2007)

Drakeley's 2007 article analysing the army's Oct-Dec 1965 psywar 'Lubang Buaya horror story' as a misogynist attack on Gerwani and a driver of the killings, tracing escalating claims in Angkatan Bersendjata, Antara and others, including the 'confessions' of Djamilah, Sujati and Saina. Core analysis of the slander.