Daily News (Perth), 9 Feb 1955, p. 18, 'Diane's Diary' women's column. The second item reports Mrs A. Dickie, a Presbyterian minister's wife, who was the Union of Australian Women's delegate to a conference in Djakarta 'conducted by the Indonesian Women's Movement' (about 500 women) in April 1954, then toured Java and
Daily News (Perth), 9 Feb 1955, p. 18, 'Diane's Diary' women's column. The second item reports Mrs A. Dickie, a Presbyterian minister's wife, who was the Union of Australian Women's delegate to a conference in Djakarta 'conducted by the Indonesian Women's Movement' (about 500 women) in April 1954, then toured Java and
Canberra Times 'What People Are Doing' social column, 7 May 1957, p. 5. Only Gerwani-adjacent item: Mrs Urbani, wife of an Indonesian Embassy first secretary, will address the Canberra branch of the National Council of Women on 'Women in Indonesia'. Rest is unrelated local notices.
Canberra Times 'What People Are Doing' social column, 30 Sep 1958, p. 5. One relevant notice: Mrs H. G. Wattimena, wife of the Indonesian Embassy's first secretary, will talk to the Reid Red Cross branch on Indonesian women and the Indonesian Red Cross. Otherwise unrelated local news.
CIA Foreign Documents Division summary no. 2846 (2 November 1960) on communist revisionism and dissidence. Its Indonesia section reports that Kartinah Kurdi, in a long article in Harian Rakjat of 10 August 1960, developed the theme that women are lovers of world peace, stressing the horrors of atomic warfare, which the
CIA Foreign Documents Division summary no. 2846 (2 November 1960) on communist revisionism and dissidence. Its Indonesia section reports that Kartinah Kurdi, in a long article in Harian Rakjat of 10 August 1960, developed the theme that women are lovers of world peace, stressing the horrors of atomic warfare, which the
RAND paper P-2690 by Guy J. Pauker (Jan 1963, for Asian Survey), 'Indonesia: Towards Development or Expansionism?'. Surveys the West New Guinea settlement, the lifting of the state of emergency, PKI strength (Aidit versus Lukman factions), inflation, Soviet arms debt and the Brunei revolt. Mentions Gerwani once, as a P
Tribune (Sydney), 23 Jan 1963, p. 10, women's column: notes that Freda Brown, UAW national secretary, attended the WIDF Council in East Germany planning the Fifth World Congress of Women (Moscow, June 1963) and also visited the Soviet Union and Indonesia; her articles are promised. Other items unrelated (tax rebates, F
Straits Times, 8 Dec 1965, by Dennis Bloodworth (lead only). Analysis of how Indonesian Communists, implicated in the 'ruthless but abortive' 1 October coup, miscalculated their moment, strength and strategy, and the army's savage determination. Matched on Gerwani and PKI; lead does not name Gerwani.
Evening Post (Wellington), 10 Dec 1965, commentary on the Indonesian Communists after the 30 September coup. It repeats the Lubang Buaya atrocity claim that six generals were 'horribly mutilated by doe-eyed girls' of the PKI's 'Gerwani' women's movement and thrown into a well, with Communist youth dancing at Halim; als
Headline-only clipping 'Sukarno the Key to Any Revolution in Indonesia' from the Evening Post of 10 Dec 1965; no further text. The full article repeats the Gerwani Lubang Buaya claim.
Standfirst clipping of the Evening Post article of 10 Dec 1965: the Indonesian Communists, 'almost overlords yesterday, almost outlaws today', miscalculated their moment, strength and strategy and the determination of the military and Muslims to wipe them out. Gerwani is not named in this fragment.
Clipping from the Evening Post of 10 Dec 1965: says Sukarno could not back the coup because of its brutality, and that six generals were 'horribly mutilated by doe-eyed girls' of the PKI's 'Gerwani' women's movement and thrown into a well, while Communist youth danced at Halim. This is the Lubang Buaya sexual-atrocity
Closing clipping of the Evening Post article of 10 Dec 1965: Nasution's escape over his garden wall and the murder of his five-year-old daughter; alleged PKI plans for arson and famine; the party's 'patriotic' image destroyed; Sukarno forced to appoint Suharto army chief while the Army mops up Communists in Central and
RAND memorandum RM-5753-PR (Feb 1969), Guy J. Pauker, 'The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Indonesia'. Argues, from trial records, that Aidit planned the 30 September action against the generals and traces PKI strategy, the Chinese turn, the agrarian 'unilateral actions' and the killings (up to 300,000), and th
Tribune (Sydney), 24 Oct 1979, p. 11, 'Cauldron' women's column: planning for the second Women and Labor Conference (Melbourne, May 1980); the Melbourne group's monthly meetings have covered topics including the Indonesian women's movement; plus a note on rising female unemployment. No Gerwani detail.
Ariel Heryanto's essay (Indonesia at Melbourne, 16 Jan 2018) arguing the state's own story of the 30 September Movement, disseminated since 1966, is the 'primary hoax' behind later 'secondary' ones. Commentary on state disinformation.
2023 UNY article on how three post-Reformasi novels by women authors (Ayu Utami's Manjali dan Cakrabirawa, Leila Chudori's Pulang, Laksmi Pamuntjak's Amba) re-interpret facts of G30S, including Buru detention and 'PKI descendant' stigma. Literary context.