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2 itemsTopic: 1965 coup and aftermath ✕Organisation: Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani) ✕Year: 1979 ✕
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GA-02900 1979 rel C licensed

The 30 September Movement: A Political Movement of the Armed Forces or an Intelligence Operation?

The 30 September Movement: a political movement of the armed forces or an intelligence operation? (Holtzappel, 1979)

Journal article by Coen Holtzappel (Journal of Contemporary Asia, 1979) analysing the Untung and Njono trial records to argue the 30 September Movement was steered by Air Force and Army intelligence, with Sjam's Pringgodani group deliberately compromising the PKI and Aidit. Gerwani is mentioned only once, in a footnote

GA-00949 1979-03-24 De Waarheid rel A

Gerwani (Annie van Ommeren over Tanti Aidit en de hetze tegen Gerwani)

Gerwani (Annie van Ommeren on Tanti Aidit and the witch-hunt against Gerwani)

De Waarheid, 24 Mar 1979, p. 8: excerpt from Annie van Ommeren on Tanti Aidit, board member of Gerwani, sister organisation of the NVB. She says Gerwani had one million members, was the target of a huge smear campaign during and after the 1965 coup, with women accused of atrocities, which found fertile ground among rea