Full-page notice in the Surakarta magazine Bentara listing the organising committee of the 1 May 1951 Labour Day commemoration, a left united front dominated by SOBSI unions and including Gerwis.
Page of the Jakarta daily Harian Rakjat, 23 April 1952 (Kartini Day issue; OCR very noisy). It reports Hari Kartini commemorations in Jakarta (about 650 women at Garden Hall), in The Hague, where Ny. S. Sri Kusnapsiah spoke on Kartini's aims and thought, and in Semarang, Bogor and elsewhere, alongside Wilopo-cabinet an
Konstituante.Net member profile (transcribed) of Suwarti Bintang Suradi, PKI member no. 15 of the Constituent Assembly. Born 1 August 1914 in Ngawi, Kweekschool and AMS educated, living in Jakarta. KNIP working committee member in Surakarta and nationally 1945-50, member of the RIS parliament and the unitary Parliament
Berita Yudha, 3 April 1966 (edisi Minggu). Solo feature on superstition after the March 1966 flood; one line links Solo's misfortunes to Gerwani after the kraton carriage was moved in September 1965.
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.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 24 Oktober 1966. Report of PKI Politburo member Sakirman's arrest in Solo alleging a secret plan to mobilise ex-PKI/PR/Gerwani, especially released detainees.
Sinar Harapan, 24 Oktober 1966. Report on the arrest of PKI Politburo member Sakirman in Solo alleging a secret plan to remobilise ex-PKI/PR/Gerwani, especially released detainees.
Harian Neraca, 21 Maret 1989, p. 10: instalment 67 of Soegiarso Soerojo's serial. Aidit's capture in Solo on 22 Nov 1965 and extracts of his alleged confession (Asahi Evening News) that Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani units were assembled from July 1965.
Tempo editorial note (18 Apr 2016), recalling a 1978 Kartini Day feature on the women's movement from Aceh 1614 to the 1970s. It describes Kowani's formation (1946), Perwari's protest over Sukarno's 1954 marriage to Hartini, Perwari being squeezed as Gerwani, 'affiliated with the PKI', gained influence, and Gerwani ste
Tempo feature (3 Oct 2020) on Fanny Chotimah's documentary 'You and I' (DMZ festival award) about Solo ex-political prisoners Kaminah and Kusdalini, Pemuda Rakyat/Gita Patria choir members detained in 1965 and later rejected by family; contrasts it with the Pengkhianatan film's razor-blade scene and the Plantungan docu
Historia review (5 May 2021) of Fanny Chotimah's documentary You and I, following two elderly Solo survivors, Kaminah and Sri Kusdalini, former choir members under Pemuda Rakyat held as political prisoners; Kaminah's bond began in Gerwis/Gerwani's women's field. Film review.
Tempo magazine profile (15 Dec 2024, archivist Rika Theo and Iwan Kurniawan) of Francisca Fanggidaej: Pesindo leader, survivor of Madiun 1948, in Chile during 30 Sept 1965, passport revoked 1967, 20 years in Beijing with the Afro-Asian journalists' organisation, then exile in the Netherlands from 1985. She joined the K
Tempo.co interview (21 Sep 2026, Yosea Arga) with Balinese writer Oka Rusmini about her poetry book 'Kembang' (28 Aug 2026), inspired by the film 'You and I' on survivors Kusdalini and Karminah. She discusses women's layered trauma, state stigma and sexual violence; one poem evokes the slander of young women prisoners