Snapshot (13 Oct 2026) of the Perpustakaan Online Genosida 1965-1966 homepage, a volunteer digital library with teasers on the IPT 1965 report, West Kalimantan stories, the Buru documentary BABE and Plantungan archival footage. Navigation page.
Snapshot (13 Oct 2026) of the YPKP 1965 homepage, showing posts on forced labour of political prisoners in Banten, the Tangerang detention centre and the 'Bukan Cuma Angka' compilation. Navigation page for the survivors' foundation.
Suara Merdeka (Semarang), 21 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1. Front page on the anti-PKI mass action sweeping Semarang on 20 Oct 1965 after RPKAD's arrival under Sarwo Edhie: burning of PKI, SOBSI, CGMI and Baperki buildings; Gerwani appears among targets.
Berita Yudha, 28 Oktober 1965. Youth Pledge Day issue: Central Java under a state of war, 104 dead in Banyuwangi with 62 bodies in three pits; Gerwani item on p. 2.
Secret Indonesian Air Force intelligence summary, 29 October 1965, on tension between nationalist/religious parties and the PKI in Central Java, with Solo security arrangements under Col. Sarwo Edhie and casualty figures. Early-aftermath regional context; no Gerwani content.
Berita Yudha, 23 November 1965. Front page: Maluku Pepelrada dissolves the PKI and its mass organisations and detains 279 on Ambon in religious language denying the 'godless' PKI the right to live; Gerwani item on p. 2.
Berita Yudha, 24 November 1965. Antara: police and army officer at Harau (Payakumbuh), assisted by villagers, seize 38 Gerwani and 39 PKI members and 'green clothing' and an Aidit book.
Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 27 November 1965. Serial 'Mengikuti Operasi RPKAD' says the PKI in Klaten held training for Gerwani, PR and BTI, and insists its claims are as true as 'the Gerwani who razored our Heroes of the Revolution'.
Berita Yudha, 1 Desember 1965. 'Brigpol Tukidjo tidak mempan golok': indoctrination session for local PKI, Gerwani and BTI members who 'declared their organisations dissolved' in Karang Pucung ends with a machete attack and shooting.
Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 2 Desember 1965. Three Gerwani items: arrest of a woman Misnah, 'a Gerwani', at a Jakarta coffee stall with insinuations about 25 September; three Gerwani among those seized by Kodam Diponegoro; executioners' confessions in Blitar.
Berita Yudha, 9 Desember 1965. Page 2 rich in Gerwani items: 'Di Klaten G 30 S sediakan 200 Lobang Buaja' claims 200 pits were prepared and Gerwani and Pemuda Rakyat volunteers were involved.
Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 15 Desember 1965. Arrest round-up noting 'a Gerwani' among 61 arrested by Kodam Diponegoro and among 10 by Kodam Brawijaya, with four 'shot dead for fleeing'.
Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 18 Desember 1965. Last instalment of a KKO tour of Cilacap: fleeing 'PKI/Gestapu, BTI, Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani' are driven by warning fire and a young woman cries 'I'm not Gerwani, I'm a Marhaen woman', told as a 'touching joke'.
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'.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 7 Feb 1966. Yogyakarta report that BTI member Suradijo, called an 'executioner of Lubang Buaya', was shot 'fleeing'; his reported confession says Gerwani members tortured and stabbed the generals while singing.
Berita Yudha, 7 Februari 1966. Boxed Antara report: BTI member Suradijo, called an 'executioner of Lubang Buaya', shot dead while 'escaping'; his reported confession involves Gerwani members stabbing the generals.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 11 Mar 1966 (Supersemar day). Regional column reports Pasaman husbands divorcing wives who are Gerwani, and release of 37 ex-detainees in Pati including six ex-Gerwani; PGRI petition to dissolve the PKI.
Berita Yudha, 24 Oktober 1966: 'Hanja seorang Gerwani dapat demikian'. Front-page photo feature with staged photos re-enacting the murder of Hasnah Djohan by Aminah Achmad, who allegedly cut her throat and mutilated the body: 'Only a Gerwani could do this'.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 21 April 1967 (Hari Kartini). Small Antara item: an RPKAD climbing team on Merapi found a skeleton locals said was 'probably a woman member of Gerwani' who fled arrest; Kartini Day editorial.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 16 Agustus 1968. Operasi Trisula commander Col. Witarmin reports the PKI underground in South Blitar crushed and lists captured leaders including five women, among them Nj. Gatot Sutarjo, 'chair of Gerwani'.
Duta Masjarakat, 19 Agustus 1968. Antara report on Operasi Trisula in South Blitar: 30 PKI 'big fish' captured, ten from Jakarta, said to be members of the 'CC and CDB PKI/Gerwani'; resisters 'sent to the hereafter'.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 8 Mei 1969. Antara: a military court in Tanjungkarang sentenced warrant officer Fauzi Totong, Natar (Lampung) officer, to seven years for rape and adultery against detained Gerwani women; evidence of sexual violence against detainees.
Okezone feature (1 Oct 2011) on Putmainah, then 83, former Gerwani chair for Blitar Regency and PKI legislator, covering her Islamic and leftist family background, Pesindo past, flight after the 1965 coup and later life. Biographical testimony of a regional Gerwani leader.
Global Voices feature (30 Oct 2015; Indonesian repost 2016) on AJAR's project interviewing 26 women survivors, with photos and testimony of Vena Taka, Kadmiyati, Frangkina Boboy and Migelina Markus. Women survivors' testimony and demands for justice.
Book by AJAR with Komnas Perempuan (Oct 2015) from participatory research with women survivors. In the 1965 context chapter (pp. 39-40) it describes false rumours about Gerwani and the sexual slander of the generals, with violence against Gerwani members. Survivor testimonies name Christina Sumarmiyati (arrested again
Book by AJAR with Komnas Perempuan (Oct 2015) from participatory research with women survivors. In the 1965 context chapter (pp. 39-40) it describes false rumours about Gerwani and the sexual slander of the generals, with violence against Gerwani members. Survivor testimonies name Christina Sumarmiyati (arrested again
Historia report (17 Mar 2017) on a Komnas Perempuan/YLBHI/IPT 65 session on sexual violence after 1965, opening with Bedjo Untung's case of Zaenab, a 12-year-old in Pekalongan stripped and repeatedly raped by soldiers. Testimony on sexual violence.
Journal article (2020) by Agustina and Fatimah, a biography of Zulbainar (b. 1939, West Sumatra), who joined Gerwani c. 1954, became treasurer of Gerwani Padang Pariaman, lost her husband to a mob in 1965 and was held 12 years without trial until 1977. Regional Gerwani life history.
YPKP 1965 index (6 April 2026) of about 260 life stories of those killed, imprisoned or exiled in 1965-66, women first (57 entries), then men and exiles, linking to the Perpustakaan Online blog. Valuable finding aid to named women survivors.