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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-00376 1965-10-12 Berita Yudha rel B

Berita Yudha, 12 Oktober 1965

Berita Yudha, 12 October 1965

Berita Yudha, 12 Oktober 1965. Front-page report that crowds in Yogyakarta (5–6 Oct 1965) put up placards 'Who killed the Heroes of the Revolution? Gerwani-PR' and destroyed PKI and IPPI offices; an early link of Gerwani to the killings.

GA-02174 1965-10-12 Suara Merdeka rel B

Suara Merdeka, 12 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1

Suara Merdeka, 12 Oct 1965, p. 1: Krukut 'cleansing operation' claims

Suara Merdeka (Semarang), 12 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1. Berita Yudha-based report on the Krukut 'cleansing operation' of 4–5 October claiming local activists joined the kidnappings and killings at Lubang Buaya. Gerwani is not named.

GA-01693 1965-11-28 Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata, Intisari Berita, 28 November 1965 (edisi mingguan)

Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 28 November 1965 (weekly edition): 1 October attributed to PKI mass...

Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 28 November 1965 (edisi mingguan). Lead 'Militer' feature attributes 1 October to the PKI and to its mass organisations, 'especially Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani', as perpetrators, and insists on crushing Gestapu 'to the roots'.

GA-00404 1966-02-25 Berita Yudha rel B

Berita Yudha, 25 Februari 1966

Berita Yudha, 25 February 1966

Berita Yudha, 25 Februari 1966. Reports of the Mahmillub trial sessions of Lt. Col. Untung with two Gerwani items; Sukarno warns he will not be 'dongkel'-ed amid KAMI blockades.

GA-00204 1966-02-28 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 28 Februari 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 28 February 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 28 Feb 1966, during Untung's Mahmillub trial. The 'Pos Piket' corner jokes that the alleged 'Dewan Djenderal' tape is 'the tape of Gerwani at Lubang Buaya', presupposing the sexual slander as common knowledge.

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-00210 1966-05-25 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 25 Mei 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 25 May 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 25 Mei 1966. Curiosity item in 'Bung Piket': 'Rosni (Gerwani)', a woman who 'went adventuring with Gestapu PKI', reports meeting a red long-haired creature on Mount Tandikat; a job ad requires 'no indication with Gestapu/PKI'.

GA-02007 1966-11-05 Sinar Harapan rel B

Sinar Harapan, 5 November 1966: ringkasan vonis Mahmillub Subandrio (VI)

Sinar Harapan, 5 Nov 1966: digest of the Subandrio Mahmillub verdict (VI)

Sinar Harapan, 5 November 1966: ringkasan vonis Mahmillub Subandrio (VI). Serial digest of the Subandrio verdict: the court finds AURI personnel trained Pemuda Rakyat, CGMI and Gerwani as a 'militant PKI mass', and Subandrio did nothing though informed.

GA-00226 1966-11-06 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 6 November 1966 (edisi Mingguan)

Angkatan Bersendjata, 6 November 1966 (Weekly Edition)

Angkatan Bersendjata, 6 November 1966 (edisi Mingguan). Preview of Omar Dhani's Mahmillub trial lists as evidence his order to provide facilities for the training of Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani 'volunteers' at Halim.

GA-01591 1984-07-08 Berita Yudha rel B

Berita Yudha, 8 Juli 1984: 'Mengarahkan remaja dari sikap frustasi'

Berita Yudha, 8 July 1984: Steering teenagers away from frustration

Berita Yudha, 8 July 1984, p. 4: youth-page essay using 1965 as a warning, saying teenagers drawn to the 'PKI education system' were used to murder the generals at Lubang Buaya; Gerwani invoked in passing.

GA-01609 1989-03-04 Harian Neraca rel B

Harian Neraca, 4 Maret 1989: 'Siapa menabur angin akan menuai badai' (54)

Harian Neraca serial 'Siapa menabur angin akan menuai badai' (54): AURI training of PKI organisations

Harian Neraca, 4 Mar 1989, p. 10: instalment 54 on April–August 1965, claiming AURI personnel helped train Pemuda Rakyat, Gerwani and other PKI organisations under the Dwikora volunteer programme.

GA-01614 1989-03-16 Harian Neraca rel B

Harian Neraca, 16 Maret 1989: 'Siapa menabur angin akan menuai badai' (63)

Harian Neraca serial 'Siapa menabur angin akan menuai badai' (63): the 4 October exhumation and Nasution's funeral sp...

Harian Neraca, 16 Mar 1989, p. 10: instalment 63 on the 4 Oct 1965 exhumation, quoting Nasution's funeral speech naming Lubang Buaya as the training centre for 'Pemuda Rakyat, Gerwani and others'.

GA-01617 1989-03-21 Harian Neraca rel B

Harian Neraca, 21 Maret 1989: 'Siapa menabur angin akan menuai badai' (67)

Harian Neraca serial 'Siapa menabur angin akan menuai badai' (67): Aidit's capture and alleged confession

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.

GA-01626 1989-05-02 Harian Neraca rel B

Harian Neraca, 2 Mei 1989: 'Siapa menabur angin akan menuai badai' (103)

Harian Neraca serial 'Siapa menabur angin akan menuai badai' (103): Marsudi's testimony on volunteer training at Luba...

Harian Neraca, 2 Mei 1989, p. 10: instalment 103 of Soegiarso Soerojo's serial. Mahmilub testimony incl. Serma Marsudi (1976) on training 3,000 volunteers from Lekra, PR, Gerwani, CGMI, BTI and others at Lubang Buaya.

GA-01628 1989-10-02 Harian Neraca rel B

Harian Neraca, 2 Oktober 1989: peringatan Hari Kesaktian Pancasila

Harian Neraca, 2 October 1989: Hari Kesaktian Pancasila commemoration

Harian Neraca, 2 Oct 1989, p. 11: education-women page with Minister Fuad Hassan's speech making Hapsak Pancasila a national tradition, and a report on the Lubang Buaya ceremony that mentions Gerwani.

GA-02234 1999-08-29 Tempo rel B licensed

"Gulag" itu Bernama Orde Baru (Resensi memoar Carmel Budiardjo)

Tempo, 29 August 1999: 'Gulag' called the New Order (review of Carmel Budiardjo's memoir)

Tempo book review (29 Aug 1999) of Carmel Budiardjo's prison memoir on New Order detention (Likdam, Bukit Duri, 'bon' interrogations, ET stigma). It records her witness to teenage women political prisoners tortured to make the script of Gerwani's involvement in the Lubang Buaya killings work, and notes she founded Tapo

GA-02978 2009 rel B

Aku Seorang Gerwani (puisi, Omie Lubis, IndoPROGRESS, 2009)

Aku Seorang Gerwani: poem (Omie Lubis, 2009)

Free-verse poem 'Aku Seorang Gerwani' by Omie Lubis (IndoPROGRESS, 5 May 2009): a Gerwani woman's monologue to her child born of rape, describing forced nakedness and forced 'painting of history', ending as a testament to truth and justice. Literary representation.

GA-02243 2011-03-07 Tempo rel B licensed

Sebuah Kritik bagi Plantungan

Tempo, 7 March 2011: A critique of Plantungan (documentary review)

Tempo review (7 Mar 2011) by Martin Aleida of Putu Oka Sukanta's documentary 'Plantungan', screened at GoetheHaus, finding it under-researched. It features former Plantungan prisoners Siti Suratih, Suci Danarti, Pujiati, Mujiati and Sp. Tican and rebuts the Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI film's slander of women; Aleida adds Ta

GA-02246 2012-10-01 Tempo rel B licensed

Film, Teror Negara, dan Luka Bangsa (Ariel Heryanto)

Tempo, 1 October 2012: Film, state terror and the nation's wound (Ariel Heryanto)

Ariel Heryanto essay in Tempo (1 Oct 2012) on state terror, propaganda film and the 1965 wound, from Supersemar and the Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI film to post-1998 indie documentaries and The Act of Killing. One passage states Gerwani leaders were detained, raped, tortured and portrayed as immoral mutilators in army press

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-02276 2012-10-01 Tempo rel B licensed

Soal Statistik Korban

Tempo, 1 October 2012: The question of victim statistics

Tempo explainer (1 Oct 2012) on victim statistics for 1965-66 (estimates 200,000 to 3 million; most likely about half a million), weighing the Oei Tjoe Tat commission's 78,000, Kopkamtib's 1 million, Sarwo Edhie's 3 million and census evidence. It notes army propaganda about torture of the generals at Lubang Buaya was

GA-02982 2015 rel B licensed

Genjer-genjer, Lagu yang Ditakuti Sejarah (Tempo, Ika Ningtyas, 2015)

Genjer-genjer, the song feared by history (Tempo, Ika Ningtyas, 2015)

Tempo feature (8 June 2015; IPT 1965 repost) on 'Genjermania', a Berlin live-music project by Tomi Simatupang raising funds for the son of Genjer-genjer composer Muhammad Arief, killed after 1965; traces the song's Japanese-occupation origin and its 1965 stigma.

GA-03009 2015 rel B

Gerwani dan Pembunuhan Identitas (Lustanto, Jurnal Perempuan, 2015)

Gerwani and the murder of identity (Lustanto, 2015)

Rendi Lustanto's 2015 Jurnal Perempuan essay on the 50th anniversary of 1965: Gerwani women hunted over alleged Lubang Buaya involvement, with media stories of erotic dances and genital mutilation made credible by patriarchal culture. Short reflective piece.