Api Kartini No. 11-12, Year 2, November-December 1960
Double issue (Nov–Dec 1960) marking Hari Ibu and the WIDF's 15th anniversary, with Maasje Siwi's first-person report on the WIDF Council session in Warsaw (29 Nov–5 Dec 1960) and coverage of the new MPRS.
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
Almanac of State Institutions and Parties (1961)
Government reference almanac issued by the Department of Information (Departemen Penerangan), June 1961, on the institutions of Guided Democracy: MPRS, DPR-GR, DPAS, Depernas, Bapekan, Front Nasional and recognised parties, with decrees, membership lists and party statutes. Gerwani appears only once, as the women's del
Angkatan Bersendjata, 14 May 1966
Angkatan Bersendjata, 14 Mei 1966. Front-page report of Ibu Soeharto telling armed forces wives to adopt their husbands' ideology: 'let it not happen that an ABRI wife becomes a member of Gerwani'.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 27 March 1968
Angkatan Bersendjata, 27 Maret 1968. Security report 'PKI malam' arrests during the MPRS session; reports the capture on 22 March 1968 in Tanjung Priok of Nj. Soeharti So[...], a Gerwani figure disguised as a Qur'an teacher.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 30 August 1968
Angkatan Bersendjata, 30 Agustus 1968. MPRS Secretariat corrects a claim that 'Nj. Chasanah Mansjur of the Gerwani faction' was a detained PKI ringleader: no Gerwani member sat in the 1960–65 MPRS; Chasanah Mansjur is a Muslimat NU member.
Duta Masjarakat, 3 September 1968: Muslimat is not Gerwani
Duta Masjarakat, 3 September 1968: 'Muslimat bukan Gerwani'. Boxed MPRS correction: the report that 'Nj. Chasanah Mansjur of the Gerwani fraction' was detained was wrong; the only MPRS member of that name belongs to Muslimat NU.
Bali Post, 7 April 2000: Revoking MPRS Decree No. XXV/1966
Bali Post, 7 Apr 2000, p. 7: editorial on Wahid's proposal to revoke the 1966 PKI ban, saying the military's stories of sadism by Gerwani and Pemuda Rakyat made the killings 'barbarity' in public memory and enabled mass slaughter.
Tempo, 2 October 2021: Umi Sardjono and the annual PKI ghost
Tempo column (2 Oct 2021, Budi Setyarso) using Umi Sardjono's life to argue that 1965 history is still painted in black and white. It notes her arrest without trial, Bukit Duri and Plantungan until 1979, Gerwani's origins in Gerwis, about 1.5 million members by 1960, literacy courses, her immigration and marriage-law w