One-line FBIS item (31 Aug 1950): Mrs Salawati Daud, sent to Jakarta by the Good Services Committee to resolve the guerrilla-army controversy in South Celebes, left for Makassar on 31 August. Shows her mediation role in 1950.
FBIS-monitored Makassar report (7 Sep 1950): the Good Offices Committee delegation, chaired by Mrs Salawati Daud, returned from Jakarta, having met Sukarno, defence officials and the parliamentary chair on the guerrilla-army issue. She expressed confidence in a settlement; parliamentary observers were promised for Sout
FBIS item (26 Oct 1950): political parties and organisations in Makassar, sponsors of the Good Services Committee on the South Celebes guerrilla issue, protested the army's arrest of Mrs Salawati (since 21 Oct) while she tried to contact guerrilla leaders; protest backed by delegates from 29 parties and organisations.
C. van Dijk, Rebellion under the Banner of Islam: The Darul Islam in Indonesia (KITLV/Martinus Nijhoff, 1981), a political history of the Darul Islam risings in West and Central Java, South Sulawesi, South Kalimantan and Aceh, and of why people joined them. It never mentions Gerwani. Its relevance is biographical: Mrs