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GA-03543 1960-06-17 Berita Harian (Singapore) rel B

Rumah komunis kena bom (Nungtjik)

Communist's house hit by bomb (Nungtjik), Berita Harian (Singapore), 17 June 1960

Berita Harian (Singapore), 17 June 1960: Reuters report from Jakarta that a Communist member of the Indonesian Parliament, Tuan Nungtjik, was wounded when a bomb (hand grenade) was thrown while he was eating at home the previous night. Only the lead snippet survives. The sweep log links it to Zubaidah Nungtjik A.R. (Ge

GA-03335 1963-02-06 Berita Harian rel B

SOBSI, Partindo dan Gerwani bantah Kerajaan Singapura (Indonesian left-wing parties protest)

SOBSI, Partindo and Gerwani protest to Singapore government (Berita Harian, 1963)

Berita Harian, 6 February 1963, p. 3: SOBSI, Partindo and Gerwani send a protest to the Singapore government over the previous week's arrests of left-wing figures (Operation Coldstore); SOBSI blames the British and Tunku Abdul Rahman. The clipping is damaged and ends abruptly; Gerwani is only one of three protesting bo

GA-02015 1965-06-08 Berita Harian rel B

Berita Harian, 8 Jun 1965: Amaran terhadap gerakan pertubuhan wanita (Sudibjo)

Berita Harian, 8 Jun 1965: warning against women's organisation movements (Sudibjo)

Berita Harian, 8 Jun 1965 (Reuters, lead only). Sudibjo, secretary-general of the National Front, warned Indonesians to be vigilant against subversive movements of domestic women's organisations, speaking at a political rally of Gerwani.

GA-03338 1965-10-07 Berita Harian rel B

Komunis sembeleh keluarga panglima tentera Jogja (Communists slaughter family of Jogja army commander)

Communists slaughter family of Yogyakarta army commander (Berita Harian, 1965)

Berita Harian, 7 October 1965, p. 1: Radio Yogyakarta claims Col. Katamso's family was slaughtered; fighting at Klaten and Cirebon, where rebels included armed communist youth and Gerwani members; army paper's account of the seven officers' deaths (Yani, Suprapto, Haryono, Parman, Panjaitan, Sutoyo, Tendean) at Lubang

GA-03330 1965-10-16 Berita Harian rel B

Perkembangan2 di-Indonesia (editorial)

Developments in Indonesia (editorial, Berita Harian, 1965)

Berita Harian editorial, 16 October 1965, p. 4, assessing the aftermath of the 30 September Movement: Untung's arrest crushes the armed army opposition, but 'opposition from cadres of Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani as well as SOBSI' continues, probably as guerrilla action; speculates on a Sukarno-Nasution compromise over th

GA-02016 1965-11-07 Berita Harian rel B

Berita Harian, 7 November 1965: Wanita hamil belasan tahun mengaku (Lubang Buaya)

Berita Harian, 7 Nov 1965: pregnant teenage woman 'confesses' (Lubang Buaya)

Berita Harian, 7 Nov 1965 (UPI, lead only). Repeats the army newspaper Angkatan Bersenjata: a pregnant teenage woman 'confessed' she took part in hacking and mutilating a bound, blindfolded army general during the coup attempt. An early instance of the Lubang Buaya sexual-slander narrative in the regional press.

GA-02017 1965-11-15 Berita Harian rel B

Berita Harian, 15 November 1965: Wanita Komunis ditahan di Sumatra Utara

Berita Harian, 15 Nov 1965: communist woman detained in North Sumatra

Berita Harian, 15 Nov 1965 (UPI/Antara, lead only). North Sumatra authorities detained a woman, said to be a Gerwani member, accused of attempting a murder and bearing a 'secret mark' on her thigh. The 'secret mark' trope echoes slander about Gerwani women.

GA-02018 1965-12-09 Berita Harian rel B

Berita Harian, 9 Disember 1965: Wanita yang dipenjarakan (Kurnipi, UPI)

Berita Harian, 9 Dec 1965: imprisoned woman (UPI photographer's scene)

Berita Harian, 9 Dec 1965 (UPI photographer Kurnipi, lead only). First-person scene with an imprisoned woman crying that her children are at home and asking why she is held and for how long. Matched on Gerwani; the lead does not name her organisation.

GA-02019 1966-02-13 Berita Harian rel B

Berita Harian, 13 Februari 1966: Wanita Komunis peguam bela Untung dan Njoto

Berita Harian, 13 Feb 1966: woman lawyer to defend Untung and Njoto

Berita Harian, 13 Feb 1966 (lead only). A woman lawyer, Dr Tien Sunito, described as a PKI member, was appointed to defend Lt Col Untung and Njoto, whose trials were due Monday. Not about Gerwani directly, but about women's roles in the 1965 trials.

GA-02021 1968-10-07 Berita Harian rel B

Berita Harian, 7 Oktober 1968: Puan Hartini tidak ditahan

Berita Harian, 7 Oct 1968: Hartini not detained

Berita Harian, 7 Oct 1968 (Reuters, lead only). Presidential secretary Col. Sutikno denied that Hartini, Sukarno's second wife, had been detained or recently questioned; the last interrogation was about 18 months earlier. Matched on Gerwani though lead does not mention it.

GA-03545 1974-09-01 Berita Harian rel B

Ibu Surastri, wartawanita Indonesia yang banyak berjasa kepada negaranya (S.K. Trimurti)

Ibu Surastri, Indonesian woman journalist of great service to her country (S.K. Trimurti), Berita Harian, 1974

Berita Harian (Singapore/Malaya), 1 September 1974: profile of Ibu Surastri (S.K. Trimurti), Indonesian woman journalist, by M. Kamsah Sirat. The lead snippet says she was accused of being pro-Japanese under the Dutch and then anti-Japanese under the Japanese. Only the opening lines are available; nothing on Gerwani is

GA-02024 1985-10-03 Berita Harian rel B

Berita Harian, 3 Oktober 1985: Indonesia setelah 20 tahun rampasan kuasa PKI

Berita Harian, 3 Oct 1985: Indonesia twenty years after the PKI coup

Berita Harian, 3 Oct 1985, by Nahar Azmi Mahmud (lead only). Retrospective, twenty years after the 'failed PKI coup', noting the event remains sensitive in Indonesia. Matched on the Indonesian women's movement query; the lead does not mention Gerwani.

GA-02025 2015-11-14 Berita Harian rel B

Berita Harian, 14 November 2015: Tribunal Rakyat Indonesia 1965

Berita Harian, 14 Nov 2015: Indonesia People's Tribunal 1965

Berita Harian, 14 Nov 2015 (lead only). On day two of the International People's Tribunal 1965 in The Hague, witnesses described sexual abuse; the lead introduces Tintin Rahayu (a pseudonym), who was among student leaders. Relevant to testimony on sexual violence and justice.