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GA-00191 1966-01-06 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 6 Januari 1966

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'.

GA-01413 1967-11-20 Harian Kami rel A

Harian Kami, 20 November 1967

Harian Kami, 20 November 1967: Sarwo Edhie on crushing the 'PKI Malam' near Lubuk Pakam

Harian Kami, 20 November 1967. KNI report: Sarwo Edhie on crushing the 'PKI Malam' near Lubuk Pakam: 429 PKI and 58 soldiers arrested, planned attacks on ABRI posts, 'some members of Gerwani' involved.

GA-00240 1967-11-21 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 21 November 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 21 November 1967. 'Operasi Tjakra' in North Sumatra: 215 PKI members arrested for an alleged 'Gerakan 12 Nopember'; Pemuda Rakyat, BTI and Gerwani members at Tanjung Morawa and 'women members of Gerwani' among those arrested.

GA-00241 1967-12-05 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 5 Desember 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 5 December 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 5 Desember 1967. Follow-up on 'Operasi Tjakra': 750 arrested in North Sumatra including ex-PKI, PR, Chinese nationals and Gerwani; a Gerwani fugitive from Lubuk Pakam caught on a plantation.

GA-00257 1969-04-15 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 15 April 1969

Angkatan Bersendjata, 15 April 1969. Antara: Medan police arrest a 30-year-old 'Gerwani' woman 'A' from Bali in a prostitution area, said to have 'taken part in the torture and killing of the TNI generals at Lubang Buaya'.

GA-02257 2012-10-01 Tempo rel C licensed

Ironi Gandhi di Medan

Tempo, 1 October 2012: The irony of Gandhi Street in Medan (detention house)

Tempo report (1 Oct 2012) on the Jalan Gandhi detention house in Medan, a former Baperki school used by Kopkamtib for over a decade; Komnas HAM names it a torture site (beatings, confinement in toilets with faeces). Testimony from Astaman Hasibuan (Lekra) and soldier Eddy Sartimin. Gerwani is not mentioned.

GA-02277 2012-10-01 Tempo rel B licensed

Tak Hanya di Pulau Buru (Operasi Kalong dan Trisula)

Tempo, 1 October 2012: Not only on Buru Island (Operations Kalong and Trisula)

Tempo report (1 Oct 2012) on Operasi Kalong (Jakarta, from Aug 1966) and Trisula (Blitar, 1968), Kopkamtib interrogation and torture sites (Gunung Sahari II, Plantungan, Jalan Gandhi, Kemaro, Moncongloe), with torture methods (electric shock, stingray whip, 'ayat kursi'). It lists other intelligence task forces, one at

GA-03600 2021-05-01 Tempo (edisi 1 Mei 2021) rel C licensed

Penyair Misterius, Pendukung Sastra Anak (Sugiarti Siswadi)

Mysterious poet and supporter of children's literature: Sugiarti Siswadi (Tempo, 1 May 2021)

Tempo article, 1 May 2021, by Isma Savitri and Hardian Putra Pratama, on Lekra writer Sugiarti Siswadi: Lekra central leadership member from 1959, children's-literature advocate, author of the banned Sorga Dibumi, and editor of Api Kartini. Researchers cannot trace her life; one suspects she was jailed in Semarang in 1

GA-02289 2021-10-02 Tempo rel A licensed

Beban Trauma Peristiwa 1965 (Mengapa Umi Sardjono tak terbuka mengungkap riwayat Gerwani)

Tempo, 2 October 2021: The burden of trauma of 1965 (why Umi Sardjono was not open about Gerwani's history)

Tempo feature (2 Oct 2021, Dini Pramita and Bagja Hidayat) on why Gerwani chair Umi Sardjono (Suharti Sumodiwiryo) said little after 13 years in Bukit Duri (to 1978). Drawn from Ita Nadia, Ruth Indiah Rahayu, others: she wept at accounts of rape and Sudjinah's injury, 'it is my responsibility'; friendships with Fransis