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GA-00583 1965-10-11 ANP Radiobulletin rel B

ANP Nieuwsbericht, 11-10-1965 (Indonesia: Gerwani headquarters burned in Aceh)

ANP news report, 11 October 1965 (Indonesia: Gerwani headquarters burned in Aceh)

ANP radio bulletin, 11 Oct 1965: the army arrests all PKI board members in Bandung, and in Aceh demonstrators burned down the headquarters of Gerwani. Also notes the evacuation of American embassy families from Jakarta. Early evidence of anti-Gerwani violence outside Java.

GA-00947 1978-03-09 De Waarheid rel A

NVB op Internationale Vrouwendag: geen steun voor Suharto (Van Heutsz-monument omhuld)

NVB on International Women's Day: no support for Suharto (Van Heutsz monument wrapped)

De Waarheid, 9 Mar 1978, p. 1: report that NVB women on International Women's Day wrapped the Van Heutsz monument in Amsterdam in white cloth marked 'Gerwani'. The item summarises Gerwani's pre-1965 work (clinics, crèches, kindergartens, courses, anti-polygamy campaigns) and the 1975 trials: Sulami life, Suharti, Sudji

GA-00485 2000-05-27 Algemeen Dagblad rel A

‘Indonesië moet werken aan nationale verzoening’ (Indonesia harus mengupayakan rekonsiliasi nasional)

'Indonesia must work on national reconciliation'

Algemeen Dagblad (2000-05-27, Nina Eberlijn, Jakarta): Human Rights Minister Hasballah Saad discusses the near-impossibility of prosecuting Suharto-era abuses and a South African-style truth commission; Kontras cites ~16,000 missing. Sulami, jailed 20 years as a Gerwani activist, says reconciliation needs victims' test