Kalgoorlie Miner wire report (Batavia, 6 November 1949, p. 5). South Celebes police are searching for Mrs Salawati Danoed (Salawati Daud), a woman municipal councillor of Makassar, believed involved in the kidnapping and murder of Dutch tobacco employee T.H. Pluyter, taken in a municipal council car; six arrests made.
Kalgoorlie Miner wire report (Batavia, 6 November 1949, p. 5). South Celebes police are searching for Mrs Salawati Danoed (Salawati Daud), a woman municipal councillor of Makassar, believed involved in the kidnapping and murder of Dutch tobacco employee T.H. Pluyter, taken in a municipal council car; six arrests made.
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.
One-paragraph FBIS item (30 Oct 1950, citing ANTARA): Mrs Salawati Daud was released from prison on 29 Oct after ten days' confinement and at once called on the Interdepartmental Commission still in Makassar, which was to tour and then go to Menado on 4 Nov. Follows her arrest of 21 Oct.
FBIS-monitored Makassar radio text (19 Oct 1965): the commandant of the 14th South-Southeast Sulawesi military command, as regional Dwikora authority, temporarily prohibited activities of PKI, Gerwani, SOBSI and affiliated unions, Pemuda Rakjat, CGMI, Perhimi, Lekra and HSI, effective 18 October, in line with Koti inst
US Embassy Joint Situation Report no. 51, 12 Nov 1965: Army-Sukarno contest plus a security section on riots in Makassar, a massacre of 200 PKI prisoners in Bone and arrests in Jakarta. No Gerwani mention; shows how killings were framed as a 'security' item.
South China Morning Post, 20 Nov 1965, p.20 (Jakarta, 19 Nov; UPI/AP via Antara): a girl captured near Bandung admitted taking part in the killing of the six generals at Lubang Buaya and among those who shot the Army commander, and admitted membership of Gerwani, the Communist women's auxiliary. The item also reports a
TAPOL Bulletin no. 133 (February 1996), London human rights newsletter on East Timor, West Papua hostage crisis, British investment, street children, Suharto's cabinet rifts, SBSI union harassment, Sri-Bintang's trial and AJI. Gerwani appears only in the review of Carmel Budiardjo's 'Surviving Indonesia's Gulag' (p.19-