Suara Merdeka, 21 October 1965, p. 1: Anti-PKI mass action in Semarang
Suara Merdeka (Semarang), 21 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1. Front page on the anti-PKI mass action sweeping Semarang on 20 Oct 1965 after RPKAD's arrival under Sarwo Edhie: burning of PKI, SOBSI, CGMI and Baperki buildings; Gerwani appears among targets.
Berita Yudha, 28 October 1965
Berita Yudha, 28 Oktober 1965. Youth Pledge Day issue: Central Java under a state of war, 104 dead in Banyuwangi with 62 bodies in three pits; Gerwani item on p. 2.
Suara Merdeka, 30 October 1965, p. 2: Pekanbaru crowds raze PKI and mass-organisation offices
Suara Merdeka (Semarang), 30 Oktober 1965, hlm. 2. After a rally in Pekanbaru crowds razed all offices of the PKI, SOBSI, Pemuda Rakyat, Gerwani, Baperki and BTI within a day; members were 'rescued' from crowds by state organs, some injured.
Berita Yudha, 23 November 1965. Front page: Maluku Pepelrada dissolves the PKI and its mass organisations and detains 279 on Ambon in religious language denying the 'godless' PKI the right to live; Gerwani item on p. 2.
Berita Yudha, 24 November 1965. Antara: police and army officer at Harau (Payakumbuh), assisted by villagers, seize 38 Gerwani and 39 PKI members and 'green clothing' and an Aidit book.
Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 27 November 1965: Klaten training claims and 'razored Heroes' allusion
Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 27 November 1965. Serial 'Mengikuti Operasi RPKAD' says the PKI in Klaten held training for Gerwani, PR and BTI, and insists its claims are as true as 'the Gerwani who razored our Heroes of the Revolution'.
Berita Yudha, 1 December 1965
Berita Yudha, 1 Desember 1965. 'Brigpol Tukidjo tidak mempan golok': indoctrination session for local PKI, Gerwani and BTI members who 'declared their organisations dissolved' in Karang Pucung ends with a machete attack and shooting.
Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 2 December 1965: arrests of Gerwani members in Jakarta and Central...
Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 2 Desember 1965. Three Gerwani items: arrest of a woman Misnah, 'a Gerwani', at a Jakarta coffee stall with insinuations about 25 September; three Gerwani among those seized by Kodam Diponegoro; executioners' confessions in Blitar.
Berita Yudha, 9 December 1965
Berita Yudha, 9 Desember 1965. Page 2 rich in Gerwani items: 'Di Klaten G 30 S sediakan 200 Lobang Buaja' claims 200 pits were prepared and Gerwani and Pemuda Rakyat volunteers were involved.
Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 15 December 1965: arrest roundup and four 'shot dead for fleeing'
Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 15 Desember 1965. Arrest round-up noting 'a Gerwani' among 61 arrested by Kodam Diponegoro and among 10 by Kodam Brawijaya, with four 'shot dead for fleeing'.
Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 18 December 1965: KKO tour of Cilacap and fleeing villagers
Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 18 Desember 1965. Last instalment of a KKO tour of Cilacap: fleeing 'PKI/Gestapu, BTI, Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani' are driven by warning fire and a young woman cries 'I'm not Gerwani, I'm a Marhaen woman', told as a 'touching joke'.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 6 January 1966
Angkatan Bersendjata, 6 Jan 1966. Antara claims PKI leaders 'admitted' Gerwani and Pemuda Rakyat were physically trained in North Sumatra before 1 October; two Pekalongan women 'known as Gerwani' forced to recite the shahada; Soetiman's 'confession'.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 7 February 1966
Angkatan Bersendjata, 7 Feb 1966. Yogyakarta report that BTI member Suradijo, called an 'executioner of Lubang Buaya', was shot 'fleeing'; his reported confession says Gerwani members tortured and stabbed the generals while singing.
Berita Yudha, 7 February 1966
Berita Yudha, 7 Februari 1966. Boxed Antara report: BTI member Suradijo, called an 'executioner of Lubang Buaya', shot dead while 'escaping'; his reported confession involves Gerwani members stabbing the generals.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 11 March 1966
Angkatan Bersendjata, 11 Mar 1966 (Supersemar day). Regional column reports Pasaman husbands divorcing wives who are Gerwani, and release of 37 ex-detainees in Pati including six ex-Gerwani; PGRI petition to dissolve the PKI.
Berita Yudha, 24 October 1966: 'Only a Gerwani could do this'
Berita Yudha, 24 Oktober 1966: 'Hanja seorang Gerwani dapat demikian'. Front-page photo feature with staged photos re-enacting the murder of Hasnah Djohan by Aminah Achmad, who allegedly cut her throat and mutilated the body: 'Only a Gerwani could do this'.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 21 April 1967 (Hari Kartini). Small Antara item: an RPKAD climbing team on Merapi found a skeleton locals said was 'probably a woman member of Gerwani' who fled arrest; Kartini Day editorial.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 16 August 1968
Angkatan Bersendjata, 16 Agustus 1968. Operasi Trisula commander Col. Witarmin reports the PKI underground in South Blitar crushed and lists captured leaders including five women, among them Nj. Gatot Sutarjo, 'chair of Gerwani'.
Duta Masjarakat, 19 August 1968
Duta Masjarakat, 19 Agustus 1968. Antara report on Operasi Trisula in South Blitar: 30 PKI 'big fish' captured, ten from Jakarta, said to be members of the 'CC and CDB PKI/Gerwani'; resisters 'sent to the hereafter'.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 8 May 1969
Angkatan Bersendjata, 8 Mei 1969. Antara: a military court in Tanjungkarang sentenced warrant officer Fauzi Totong, Natar (Lampung) officer, to seven years for rape and adultery against detained Gerwani women; evidence of sexual violence against detainees.
Harian Neraca serial 'Siapa menabur angin akan menuai badai' (70): October-November 1965 violence and Suharto's 10 No...
Harian Neraca, 25 Maret 1989, p. 10: instalment 70 of Soegiarso Soerojo's serial. Surveys October–November 1965 violence and Suharto's 10 Nov 1965 'Seruan', with crowd attacks in Aceh and Sumatra on the PKI and Gerwani.
Banyuwangi, the first spark that burned out G30S/PKI
Bali Post, 30 Sept 1992, p. 6: G30S-anniversary opinion page; a feature lists Gerwani among communist masses backing Madiun 1948 and retells the Cemetuk clash of 18 Oct 1965 as PKI poisoning.
Bali Post, 16 April 1999: Suharto's 1965-66 atrocities to be investigated
Bali Post, 16 Apr 1999, p. 1: founding of the YPKP 65 foundation (15 Apr 1999, YLBHI, Jakarta), chaired by Sulami, ex-Gerwani member imprisoned 20 years, with Pramoedya; research on killing sites and aim to hold Suharto accountable.
Bali Post, 28 April 2000: Komnas HAM urged to investigate the killing of PKI victims
Bali Post, 28 Apr 2000, p. 19: YPKP 65 (Sulami) and Solidaritas Nusa Bangsa press Komnas HAM to investigate post-G30S massacres; Sulami denies slashing the generals and demands her family's name be cleared.
A Short Story of One Sulami (LPKP-65, 2002)
December 2002 LPKP-65 memorial booklet for Sulami (1926-2002), former Gerwani leader and YPKP 1965/66 chair, with her biography (arrested 1967, 20-year sentence, released 1984) and documents on exhumations, letters to Komnas HAM and forensic work.
Bali Post, 11 August 2002: short story 'Ngaben' (I Wayan Artika)
Bali Post, 11 Aug 2002, p. 10: short story 'Ngaben' about a PKI activist's family fleeing the 1965–66 Bali killings; the father knew of the plans 'from the stories of the Gerwani women'.
Waspada, 7 October 2002: Commemoration at the Sudjono monument, Bandar Betsy
Waspada, 7 Oct 2002, p. 11: feature on the 1 Oct 2002 commemoration at the Sudjono monument in Bandarbetsy, retelling the 1965 killing of Peltu Sudjono by BTI squatters joined by Pemuda Rakyat, Gerwani and Lekra who 'sang and danced'.
Shaman AS refuses to seek clemency
Analisa (Medan), 19 Aug 2003, p. 2: death-row shaman Ahmad Suradji says the place he showed where bodies were found is the 'place of slaughter of Gerwani'; an incidental, erased-history reference.
This Is the Story of the Gerwani Chair of Blitar Regency (Okezone, 2011)
Okezone feature (1 Oct 2011) on Putmainah, then 83, former Gerwani chair for Blitar Regency and PKI legislator, covering her Islamic and leftist family background, Pesindo past, flight after the 1965 coup and later life. Biographical testimony of a regional Gerwani leader.
Tempo, 1 October 2012: Film, state terror and the nation's wound (Ariel Heryanto)
Ariel Heryanto essay in Tempo (1 Oct 2012) on state terror, propaganda film and the 1965 wound, from Supersemar and the Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI film to post-1998 indie documentaries and The Act of Killing. One passage states Gerwani leaders were detained, raped, tortured and portrayed as immoral mutilators in army press