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GA-02082 1955-08-05 Pravda rel B

Pravda, 5 August 1955, No. 217: government crisis in Indonesia, telegrams from Gerwani (p. 6)

Pravda, 5 Aug 1955: government crisis in Indonesia; telegrams from Gerwani

Pravda, 5 August 1955, No. 217, page 6, supplied as a Claude machine translation of the Indonesia item. A TASS dispatch from Jakarta on the cabinet crisis (Harahap of Masjumi asked to form a government) says Harian Rakjat printed dozens of telegrams from SOBSI, BTI, the women's organisation Gerwani and Pemuda Rakjat in

GA-02083 1955-08-05 Pravda rel A

Pravda, 5 Agustus 1955, No. 217 (Salam/telegram Gerwani; krisis kabinet Indonesia)

Pravda, 5 Aug 1955: Gerwani telegram in Indonesian cabinet crisis (excerpt)

Keyword-hit excerpt of Pravda, 5 Aug 1955 (TASS, Jakarta) on the cabinet crisis after Masjumi's Burhanuddin Harahap was asked to form a government. Harian Rakjat published telegrams from SOBSI, BTI, Gerwani, Pemuda Rakjat and others demanding a truly democratic government, opposing a Masjumi cabinet and 'a military dic

GA-01452 1957-01-30 Harian Rakjat rel A

Laporan harus wajar: Tentang pendidikan di Sovyet Uni, oleh Ny. Mudigdio (Harian Rakjat, 30 Januari 1957, hlm. 3)

The report must be fair: on education in the Soviet Union, by Mrs Mudigdio (Harian Rakjat, 30 January 1957)

Harian Rakjat, 30 Jan 1957, p. 3: the page carries only the headline 'Laporan harus wajar - Tentang pendidikan di Sovyet Uni' by Ny. Mudigdio; the article body is not recoverable from the OCR. Page 4 advertises Soviet booklets on women's right to education. Page 1 covers Hatta and the Konsepsi Presiden debate. Mudigdio

GA-01456 1957-03-08 Harian Rakjat rel A

Harian Rakjat, 8 Maret 1957: artikel Setiati Surasto tentang cuti haid, hlm. 3

Harian Rakjat, 8 March 1957: Setiati Surasto on menstrual leave

Harian Rakjat issue of 8 March 1957 (International Women's Day), noisy OCR. Page 3 carries Setiati Surasto's women's-day article defending menstrual leave (cuti haid) for women workers under Labour Law 1951/1948. Elsewhere: a Gerwani branch (Blitar) reported gaining members, a Gerwani public lecture is announced, and t

GA-01457 1957-03-09 Harian Rakjat rel A

Harian Rakjat, 9 Maret 1957: Umi Sardjono di pameran Hari Wanita, hlm. 1

Harian Rakjat, 9 March 1957: Umi Sardjono at the Women's Day exhibition

Harian Rakjat issue of 9 March 1957, very noisy OCR. Page 1 reports the International Women's Day exhibition (handicrafts, cooking, costumes, foreign stalls) in Jakarta, where Umi Sardjono (Gerwani leader) is among women leaders present alongside Fatmawati; the committee of ten women's organisations is chaired by Yahya

GA-01900 1963-09-05 Renmin Ribao rel B licensed

D.N. Aidit, 'Beberapa masalah revolusi Indonesia dan PKI', laporan di Beijing, 4 September 1963 (Renmin Ribao, 5 September 1963) (印度尼西亚革命的若干问题和印度尼西亚共产党)

D.N. Aidit, 'Some problems of the Indonesian revolution and the PKI': Beijing report, 4 September 1963

Full Renmin Ribao text (5 Sept 1963, p. 3) of D.N. Aidit's 4 September Beijing rally report on the Indonesian revolution and PKI: semi-colonial, semi-feudal analysis, national united front, Nasakom, state power's 'two aspects', and party building. Gerwani appears only once, in a membership tally (1.5 million, alongside

GA-02565 1965 rel B licensed

Indonesia, Internal political situation: Attempted coup against Sukarno [11] (FO 371/180320, Gilchrist despatch of 8 October 1965)

FO 371/180320: Gilchrist Despatch of 8 October 1965 on the Coup and Counter-Coup

UK Foreign Office file FO 371/180320 (Oct-Nov 1965): Gilchrist's despatch no. 13 of 8 Oct 1965 on the coup and counter-coup, plus telegrams, NATO and Commonwealth reports and Chinese/Soviet/Hanoi reactions. The despatch lists GERWANI among 'chief suspects' (p. 11) and says members of PKI youth and women's groups took p

GA-01385 1965-10-21 Twentsch Dagblad Tubantia rel B

Nasakom voorlopig zonder "kom": Communisten bevroren, maar nog niet uitgeschakeld in Indonesië (Nasakom for now without 'kom')

Nasakom for now without 'kom': communists frozen but not yet eliminated

Twentsch Dagblad Tubantia (21 Oct 1965), H.L. Leffelaar from Jakarta: the freezing of the PKI is an army victory over Sukarno; Nasakom 'without kom'. A poster targets Mrs Subandrio, head of the women's federation (Kowani), for not yet suspending Gerwani. Hatta criticises communist land seizures; a minister recounts Unt

GA-01386 1965-10-21 Twentsch Dagblad Tubantia rel B

Nasakom voorlopig zonder "kom": Communisten bevroren, maar nog niet uitgeschakeld; Soebandrio in het nauw (Nasakom for now without 'kom'; Subandrio increasingly cornered)

Nasakom for now without 'kom'; Subandrio increasingly cornered

Twentsch Dagblad Tubantia (21 Oct 1965), H.L. Leffelaar from Jakarta: the freezing of the PKI is an army victory over Sukarno; Nasakom 'without kom'. A poster targets Mrs Subandrio, head of the women's federation (Kowani), for not yet suspending Gerwani. Hatta criticises communist land seizures; a minister recounts Unt

GA-01311 1965-10-22 Nieuwsblad Van Het Noorden rel B

Reorganisatie PKI? (Reorganisation of the PKI?)

Reorganisation of the PKI?

Nieuwsblad van het Noorden, 22 October 1965: correspondent's Jakarta report. A poster targets Mrs Subandrio, head of the women's organisations federation (Kowani), for not yet suspending the communist women's league Gerwani. Also Njoto and Lukman reportedly at Subandrio's house, and Hatta describing communist infiltrat

GA-01674 1965-12-13 Drammens Tidende og Buskeruds blad rel A

Indonesia - et nytt Vietnam (Drammens Tidende og Buskeruds Blad, 13 desember 1965, s. 4)

Indonesia, a new Vietnam (Drammens Tidende og Buskeruds Blad, 13 December 1965)

Drammens Tidende og Buskeruds Blad (Norway), 13 Dec 1965, p. 4 (page image): Albert Henrik Mohn's Jakarta report 'Indonesia - a new Vietnam', surveying the PKI's history from 1920 and Aidit's leadership. It lists PKI mass organisations, including SOBSI, BTI, Pemuda Rakyat and the women's organisation 'Gerwani' with rou

GA-01675 1965-12-13 Drammens Tidende og Buskeruds blad rel A

Indonesia - et nytt Vietnam (Drammens Tidende og Buskeruds Blad, 13 desember 1965, s. 4)

Indonesia, a new Vietnam (Drammens Tidende og Buskeruds Blad, 13 December 1965), OCR text

Drammens Tidende og Buskeruds Blad (Norway), 13 Dec 1965, p. 4 (OCR text): Albert Henrik Mohn's Jakarta report 'Indonesia - a new Vietnam', surveying the PKI's history from 1920 and Aidit's leadership. It lists PKI mass organisations, including SOBSI, BTI, Pemuda Rakyat and the women's organisation 'Gerwani' with rough

GA-01676 1965-12-17 Haugesunds Avis rel A

Indonesia, et nytt Vietnam? (Haugesunds Avis, 17. desember 1965, s. 8)

Indonesia, a new Vietnam? (Haugesunds Avis, 17 December 1965)

Haugesunds Avis (Norway), 17 Dec 1965, p. 8 (page image): Albert Henrik Mohn's Jakarta article 'Indonesia, a new Vietnam?' on PKI history, Aidit's rise and party growth to 3 million. It names PKI mass organisations (SOBSI, peasant front, Pemuda Rakyat, and the women's organisation Gerwani with about 1.5 million members

GA-01677 1965-12-17 Haugesunds Avis rel A

Indonesia, et nytt Vietnam? (Haugesunds Avis, 17. desember 1965, s. 8)

Indonesia, a new Vietnam? (Haugesunds Avis, 17 December 1965), OCR text

Haugesunds Avis (Norway), 17 Dec 1965, p. 8 (OCR text): Albert Henrik Mohn's Jakarta article 'Indonesia, a new Vietnam?' on PKI history, Aidit's rise and party growth to 3 million. It names PKI mass organisations (SOBSI, peasant front, Pemuda Rakyat, and the women's organisation Gerwani with about 1.5 million members)

GA-00499 1970-06-22 Algemeen Handelsblad rel B

Soekarno, grondlegger van Indonesië (Sukarno, pendiri Indonesia)

Sukarno, founder of Indonesia

Algemeen Handelsblad obituary-profile of Sukarno (1970-06-22), covering his life, Guided Democracy, Nasakom, and the 30 September 1965 events, which it blames on palace guards and communist groups, followed by an anti-communist reaction costing 'tens of thousands' of lives. A photo caption states General Yani was murde

GA-03596 1990-04-21 Tempo (weekly), 21 April 1990 rel A licensed

Dari politik ke kebatinan (S.K. Trimurti)

From politics to mysticism: S.K. Trimurti in her own words (Tempo, 21 Apr 1990)

Tempo profile (21 April 1990), in S.K. Trimurti's own first-person voice, of her life from teacher and Partindo cadre to labour minister and spiritualist. She says she co-founded Gerwis around 1950 (Ketua III, Yogyakarta), that Gerwis became Gerwani at its third congress under Umi Sardjono, and that in 1965 she quit Ge

GA-03042 2023 rel C licensed

Fashioning Authoritarianism: Militarization of Society in Indonesia, 1930-1966

Fashioning Authoritarianism: Militarization of Society in Indonesia, 1930-1966 (Joshua, 2023)

PhD dissertation (Northwestern, 2023) by Norman Joshua on the militarization of Indonesian society, 1930-1966. It argues the Army intervened in non-military affairs through the 'twin logics' of emergency powers and counterinsurgency, culminating in the New Order. Gerwani appears only in passing: p. 428 gives its claime