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GA-01297 1951-08-20 Nieuwe Haarlemsche Courant rel A

Arrestaties in Oost-Java: Scherpe controle op de pers (Arrests in East Java: strict control of the press)

Arrests in East Java: strict control of the press

Nieuwe Haarlemsche Courant, 20 August 1951: reports the August 1951 mass arrests in East Java (the 'Razzia Agustus') of 26 people in Surabaya including journalists, PKI local chair Hutapea, Sobsi's Surono and Sutomo, and the Gerwis chairwoman Mrs Parjani Ilham; 175 more arrested in Malang, Bojonegoro, Madiun and Kediri

GA-01360 1951-08-20 Trouw rel A

Weer tientallen arrestaties in Oost- en West-Java: Te Bandoeng bureaux van "Sobsi" bezet (Dozens more arrests in East and West Java)

Dozens more arrests in East and West Java: Sobsi offices occupied in Bandung

Trouw (20 Aug 1951) on the August 1951 arrests: 26 detained in East Java including journalists, the PKI branch chairman, SOBSI unionists and Gerwis chairwoman Mrs Parjani Ilham; 50 communists arrested in Bandung and SOBSI offices sealed. Attorney General warns of tighter press control; 17 August passed quietly.

GA-01050 1957-04-05 Het Nieuwsblad Voor Sumatra rel B

President Soekarno benoemt zichzelf tot formateur: streven naar vorming van extraparlementair kabinet

President Sukarno appoints himself formateur: striving for extra-parliamentary cabinet

Het Nieuwsblad voor Sumatra (5 Apr 1957, p.1): Sukarno appoints himself formateur of an extra-parliamentary emergency cabinet at a Negara Palace meeting of 75 invited prominent figures (69 present). Six invitees were absent, including Mrs Pudjobuntoro and Mrs S.K. Trimurti. Nasution, the service chiefs, police chief an

GA-01054 1957-06-19 Het Nieuwsblad Voor Sumatra rel B

Parlement vrij sympathiek tegen wet op noodtoestand

Parliament fairly sympathetic to emergency law

Het Nieuwsblad voor Sumatra (19 Jun 1957, p.1): parliamentary debate on the state-of-emergency bill replacing the colonial SOB regime. Speakers (Munir/PNI, Tambunan, Soeprapto, Amin Iskandar, Arudji Kartawinata) mostly accept it. Mrs Salawati Daud (PKI) stresses her faction's view that the law must primarily protect th

GA-01258 1957-08-16 Java-Bode rel B

Bezoek Nationale Raad (Visit to the National Council)

Visit to the National Council

Java-Bode, 16 August 1957, p. 2: a Yugoslav vice-president's party visited the National Council and was received by vice-chair Roeslan Abdulgani and members including the attorney-general, Ahem Erningpradja, S.K. Trimurti and Siwabessy. Other members were meeting on normalising the internal situation.

GA-00730 1966-04-23 De Tijd rel A

Gruwelen (Atrocities)

Atrocities: account of the generals' killing and alleged Gerwani role

De Tijd article "Gruwelen" (23 Apr 1966) recounting the 1 Oct 1965 killings of the generals, claiming a hundred Gerwani women at Halim took part in torturing them with knives and razor blades after "training" including sexual orgies and blood oaths, citing a 15-year-old "Miss Djamilah" and the Djakarta Mail of 5 Nov. A

GA-00731 1966-04-23 De Tijd rel A

Gruwelen (Atrocities)

Atrocities: account of the generals' killing and alleged Gerwani role (duplicate record)

De Tijd article "Gruwelen" (23 Apr 1966) recounting the 1 Oct 1965 killings of the generals, claiming a hundred Gerwani women at Halim took part in torturing them with knives and razor blades after "training" including sexual orgies and blood oaths, citing a 15-year-old "Miss Djamilah" and the Djakarta Mail of 5 Nov. D