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GA-02171 1965-10-06 Suara Merdeka rel B

Suara Merdeka, 6 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1

Suara Merdeka, 6 Oct 1965, p. 1: Lubang Buaya well and Kalibata burial

Suara Merdeka (Semarang), 6 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1. Front page after discovery of the officers' bodies: Suharto's RRI announcement of the Lubang Buaya well and Kalibata burial; his reply mentions an AURI-run training centre for 'sukarelawan/sukarelawati'. No Gerwani or mutilation mentioned.

GA-00374 1965-10-07 Berita Yudha rel B

Berita Yudha, 7 Oktober 1965

Berita Yudha, 7 October 1965

Berita Yudha, 7 Oktober 1965. Week after 30 September: Pemuda Rakyat members captured in Krukut allegedly took part in the Lubang Buaya killings; Sukarno's Bogor cabinet session condemns the killings; Gerwani mentioned on p. 2.

GA-02172 1965-10-09 Suara Merdeka rel C

Suara Merdeka, 9 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1

Suara Merdeka, 9 Oct 1965, p. 1: Suharto briefs press on Lubang Buaya discovery

Suara Merdeka (Semarang), 9 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1. Front page with a Berita Yudha photograph of Suharto and Ibnu Subroto briefing the press on the discovery of the bodies at Lubang Buaya; otherwise security orders.

GA-02175 1965-10-14 Suara Merdeka rel C

Suara Merdeka, 14 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1

Suara Merdeka, 14 Oct 1965, p. 1: capture of Untung; RPKAD operations at Lubang Buaya

Suara Merdeka (Semarang), 14 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1. Lead on the capture of ex-Lt. Col. Untung near Tegal and RPKAD operations including 'securing' Battalion 454 at Lubang Buaya on 2 Oct and exhumation on 3–4 Oct.

GA-02176 1965-10-14 Suara Merdeka rel C

Suara Merdeka, 14 Oktober 1965, hlm. 2

Suara Merdeka, 14 October 1965, p. 2: Major Santoso and Untung's capture

Suara Merdeka (Semarang), 14 Oktober 1965, hlm. 2. Portrait of RPKAD Major C.I. Santoso, credited with the Lubang Buaya raid, and an editorial on Untung's capture warning that G30S is not yet uprooted.

GA-02186 1965-10-27 Suara Merdeka rel A

Suara Merdeka, 27 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1

Suara Merdeka, 27 October 1965, p. 1: Yogyakarta demands dissolution of PKI and Gerwani; Umi Sardjono

Suara Merdeka (Semarang), 27 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1. Richest page for Gerwani in this set: state of war in Central Java; 55 Yogyakarta organisations demand dissolution of the PKI and Gerwani; a demand to dismiss Umi Sardjono from the Kotrar political bureau.

GA-01701 1965-12-14 Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata, Intisari Berita, 14 Desember 1965

Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 14 December 1965: Sukarno rejects stories of mutilation at Lubang B...

Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 14 Desember 1965. Reports Sukarno's address (13 Dec) rejecting press stories of genital mutilation and eye-gouging at Lubang Buaya; 18 Gerwani among 228 detained in Wonosobo; a Gerwani leader beaten by her own members.

GA-00207 1966-04-08 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 8 April 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 8 Apr 1966. A boxed feature blames ex-PKI mayor of Solo Utomo Ramelan's 'Silir' complex for preparing 'the immoral drama of Lubang Buaya with Gerwani and PR as actors', a sexualised slander frame.

GA-00208 1966-05-02 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 2 Mei 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 2 May 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 2 Mei 1966. Final instalment of a series on ex-Bali governor Sutedja lists PKI 'military training centres' in Bali, among them a Gerwani centre led by Nyonya Gede Puger, with trainers 'presumably graduates of Lubang Buaya'.

GA-00218 1966-10-01 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 1 Oktober 1966 (edisi Hari Kesaktian Pancasila pertama)

Angkatan Bersendjata, 1 October 1966 (First Hari Kesaktian Pancasila Edition)

Angkatan Bersendjata, 1 Oktober 1966 (edisi Hari Kesaktian Pancasila pertama). First-anniversary issue and the richest Gerwani source in the batch: prints the official 'Risalah singkat tragedi nasional' claiming officers were tortured 'beyond humanity by members of Pemuda Rakyat and GERWANI', plus 'Bung Piket' retrospe

GA-00119 1970 rel A

Seperempat Abad Dewan Perwakilan Rakjat Republik Indonesia (1970)

A Quarter Century of the Indonesian Parliament (1970)

Official institutional history, 'Seperempat Abad DPR RI', compiled by the DPR-GR Secretariat for the 25th anniversary in August 1970; it traces parliament from the KNIP to 1970 with membership rosters. For Gerwani it matters in the 1965-66 chapters: it records the NU demand (5 Oct 1965) to ban Gerwani, the 15 Oct 1965

GA-01613 1989-03-15 Harian Neraca rel B

Harian Neraca, 15 Maret 1989: 'Siapa menabur angin akan menuai badai' (62)

Harian Neraca serial 'Siapa menabur angin akan menuai badai' (62): 1-4 October 1965 and the well at Lubang Buaya

Harian Neraca, 15 Mar 1989, p. 10: instalment 62 on 1–4 October 1965 (Suharto's assumption of command, recapture of RRI and Halim, finding the well via Sukitman); Gerwani appears once.

GA-03650 2009 Pusat Sejarah dan Tradisi TNI / Yayasan Kajian Citra Bangsa, Jakarta rel A

Komunisme di Indonesia, Jilid IV: Pemberontakan G30S/PKI dan Penumpasannya (1960-1965)

Communism in Indonesia, Vol. IV: The G30S/PKI Rebellion and its Suppression (1960-1965), Pusjarah TNI, 2009

Official Army history (Pusjarah TNI, Jakarta 2009), vol. IV of 'Komunisme di Indonesia', presenting Gerwani as a PKI mass organisation in the 1960-65 build-up and the G30S. It reports Gerwani's Nov-Dec 1964 housewives' seminar (p. 70), 'unilateral actions' (p. 122), the 27 Sept 1965 Surabaya governor's-office raid unde

GA-03651 2009 Pusat Sejarah dan Tradisi TNI / Yayasan Kajian Citra Bangsa, Jakarta rel A

Komunisme di Indonesia, Jilid IV: Pemberontakan G30S/PKI dan Penumpasannya (1960-1965)

Communism in Indonesia, Vol. IV: The G30S/PKI Rebellion and its Suppression (1960-1965), Pusjarah TNI, 2009

Official Army history (Pusjarah TNI, Jakarta 2009), vol. IV of 'Komunisme di Indonesia', presenting Gerwani as a PKI mass organisation in the 1960-65 build-up and the G30S. It reports Gerwani's Nov-Dec 1964 housewives' seminar (p. 70), 'unilateral actions' (p. 122), the 27 Sept 1965 Surabaya governor's-office raid unde

GA-02254 2012-10-01 Tempo rel B licensed

Di Bawah Cengkeraman Kopkamtib

Tempo, 1 October 2012: Under Kopkamtib's grip

Tempo explainer (1 Oct 2012) on Kopkamtib, set up by Suharto on 2 Oct 1965 as the 'super organisation' that planned and drove the mass killings and detentions (Komnas HAM names it chief perpetrator). It notes army-controlled media showing Lubang Buaya photos with stories that Gerwani women tortured the generals, and ci

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