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GA-00075 1960 Api Kartini rel A licensed

Delegasi Kongres Wanita Indonesia di Korea Utara

Kowani Delegation in North Korea

Fragmentary Api Kartini item (1960s) closing a statement by the Indonesian Women's Congress (Kowani) delegation after visiting North Korea, thanking hosts, praising Korean revolutionary culture and socialist construction, and backing Korean reunification and the 'Crush Malaysia' campaign. Signatories listed include Suh

GA-00049 1963 Api Kartini rel A

Api Kartini No. 5–6 Th. 5, Mei–Juni 1963

Api Kartini No. 5-6, Year 5, May-June 1963

Double issue (May–Jun 1963) on the return of West Irian and the 10 May 1963 anti-Chinese riots in West Java, with Sukarno speeches condemning racism and an editorial blaming an ex-Masjumi/PSI/Permesta network.

GA-00050 1964 Api Kartini rel A

Api Kartini No. 10 Th. 6, Oktober 1964

Api Kartini No. 10, Year 6, October 1964

October 1964 issue: editorial on Sukarno's Cairo Non-Aligned speech, a KOWANI delegation report on North Korea including Gerwani's Suharti Suwarto, TAVIP cadre education, peasant women in the Malaysia confrontation, and Bulgaria.

GA-00052 1964 Api Kartini rel A

Api Kartini No. 9 Th. 6, September 1964

Api Kartini No. 9, Year 6, September 1964

September 1964 issue built on Sukarno's 17 August 1964 TAVIP speech, Dwikora mobilisation, the 10th Kowani (KWI) congress, Sulami on peasant women and land reform, a West Irian travelogue and Kartinah on a Chinese people's commune.

GA-00106 1964 Api Kartini rel C licensed

The Era of Confrontation

Api Kartini (late 1964) article on Sukarno's 'The Era of Confrontation' speech at the Second Non-Aligned Summit, Cairo (5-10 October 1964), applied to Indonesia: confrontation with Malaysia and with the 'seven village devils' (landlords) in the interest of peasant women. Also carries a Kowani delegation's impressions o

GA-00109 1964 Hurustiati Subandrio rel B licensed

Kongres ke-X Wanita Indonesia: Wejangan Presiden Sukarno

Tenth Indonesian Women's Congress: Sukarno's Counsel

Report (1964) on the opening of the 10th Indonesian Women's Congress (Kowani) at Istora, Jakarta, with extracts of Hurustiati Subandrio's speech and Sukarno's address. Sukarno calls for 'Manipolist' women, a cooperative body uniting women's organisations, and warns against admitting persons linked to subversion or bann

GA-00142 1965 rel B

Sedjarah Perdjuangan Pemuda Indonesia

History of the Indonesian Youth Struggle (Youth Bureau, Ministry of Education and Culture, 1965)

Official history of the Indonesian youth movement (1908-1960) compiled by the Youth Bureau of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Balai Pustaka, Jakarta 1965 (prefaces dated Dec. 1963), in five periods. Gerwani appears only briefly: it is listed among organisations demanding action against the 1957-58 PRRI separatis

GA-00380 1965-10-21 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 21 Oktober 1965

Berita Yudha, 21 October 1965

Berita Yudha, 21 Oktober 1965. Army information chief alleges 'Gerwani Semarang' ran a public kitchen for 3,000 at the time of the 'coup'; further reports on the fate of Gerwani and the women's federation.

GA-02182 1965-10-23 Suara Merdeka rel A

Suara Merdeka, 23 Oktober 1965, hlm. 2–3

Suara Merdeka, 23 October 1965, pp. 2-3: PNI women ask Kowani to take a stand on G30S

Suara Merdeka (Semarang), 23 Oktober 1965, hlm. 2–3. Three Gerwani items: PNI women ask Kowani (Hurustiati Subandrio) to take a position on G30S, opening the move toward Gerwani's exclusion; a businesswoman declares she is not Gerwani; a rally of 67 East Java organisations.

GA-00417 1966-10-04 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 4 Oktober 1966

Berita Yudha, 4 October 1966

Berita Yudha, 4 Oktober 1966. Report of a rally of some 3,500 women of KOWANI, KAWI and BPOW at Lubang Buaya (3 Oct) where, led by Ibu Tien Soeharto, they swore to 'eradicate the gerwani/pki mentality'; Ibu Soeharto says they 'practised obscenities without limit'.

GA-00233 1967-04-27 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 27 April 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 27 April 1967. South Kalimantan governor Aberani Sulaiman says mothers must 'eradicate women of the Gerwani type, the Lubang Buaya type' to realise 'true Indonesian women'; KOWANI Kartini meeting.

GA-02296 2021-10-02 Tempo rel A licensed

Propaganda Hitam terhadap Gerwani

Tempo, 2 October 2021: Black propaganda against Gerwani (Ita Fatia Nadia)

Op-ed by Ita Fatia Nadia in Tempo (2 Oct 2021) tracing the army-controlled press campaign from 7 Oct 1965 that cast Gerwani as sexually sadistic, contradicted by the military doctors' autopsy (Roebiono Kertapati). It links the slander to the mass killings, Kowani's expulsion of Gerwani (29 Oct 1965), Lubang Buaya volun