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GA-01117 1953-01-07 Indische Courant Voor Nederland rel C

Lief en leed van Indonesië in het afgelopen jaar (Joys and sorrows of Indonesia in the past year)

Joys and sorrows of Indonesia in the past year

Indische Courant voor Nederland, 7 Jan 1953, p. 3: year-in-review chronology for 1952 (selected entries translated). Mentions the August 1951 raids, the 17 October 1952 affair, release of East Java arrestees on 30 Oct, a goodwill mission to Kahar Muzakkar under Mrs Salawati (8 Apr), and Aidit and Njoto refused entry to

GA-00481 1966-02-15 Algemeen Dagblad rel B

Nederlandse vrouw enige verdedigster (Perempuan Belanda satu-satunya pembela)

Dutch woman sole defender

ANP report in Algemeen Dagblad (1966-02-15) on Dutch-born lawyer Trees Sunito-Heyligers, the only Indonesian jurist willing to defend PKI/SOBSI leader Njono before the special military tribunal. Her husband Sunito was jailed after the coup and she was dismissed from the state bank. No Gerwani mention; context for the 1

GA-01274 1968-01-06 Nederlands Dagblad Gereformeerd Gezinsblad Hoofdred. P. Jongeling... [Et Al.] rel B

Nederlandse juriste gearresteerd (Dutch jurist arrested)

Dutch jurist arrested

Nederlands Dagblad, 6 January 1968, p. 1: brief report that Jakarta police arrested Dutch-born lawyer Trees Soenito-Heyligers on suspicion of membership in the banned scholars' association HSI; she had defended SOBSI leader Njono, who was sentenced to death for the 1965 coup. A second item on Cyprus is unrelated. No Ge

GA-00734 1969-04-24 De Tijd rel B

Indonesië en het comité-Wertheim (Indonesia and the Wertheim Committee)

Indonesia and the Wertheim Committee: Nijmegen congress and Dutch aid to Suharto

Long De Tijd opinion piece by Arie Kuiper (24 Apr 1969) on the Nijmegen student congress and the Wertheim Indonesia Committee's call to halt Dutch aid to Suharto's regime. It acknowledges hundreds of thousands killed and many political prisoners but blames Muslim hatred and defends Suharto; it repeats that generals wer

GA-00929 1975-04-25 De Waarheid rel A

Vrouwen – levenslang (Joop Morriën)

Women - life imprisonment (Joop Morrien on the trial of Gerwani and PKI women)

De Waarheid, 25 Apr 1975, article by Joop Morrien on nearly ten years of Suharto's dictatorship. It reports the military tribunal trial of Gerwani and PKI women Sulami, Sudjinah, Sri Ambar Rukmiati and Suharti Harsono, who went underground after 1965 and were arrested in late 1966; life is demanded for Sulami and 20 ye

GA-01275 1976-10-06 Nederlands Dagblad Gereformeerd Gezinsblad Hoofdred. P. Jongeling... [Et Al.] rel A

Grondwet (Constitution; Amnesty press conference on Indonesian prisoners)

Constitution (Amnesty press conference on Indonesian prisoners)

Nederlands Dagblad, 6 October 1976, p. 5: partly missing report on an Amnesty International press conference in the Netherlands about Indonesian political prisoners. It states that the women in the women's camps are for the most part members of the militant Gerwani, discusses church relief for prisoners' families, and

GA-00976 1989-08-23 De Waarheid rel B

Indonesische communiste na 20 jaar gevangenschap op vrije voeten (Sundari Abdulrachman)

Indonesian communist free after 20 years in prison (Sundari Abdulrachman)

Front-page De Waarheid report (23 Aug 1989) on the release on 17 August of Sundari Abdulrachman, PKI central committee member and former MP, after over twenty years' imprisonment (arrested Lampung Nov 1968; life sentence 1976, commuted 1982). Notes 51 PKI members still held, fourteen under death sentence, and fourteen

GA-03597 2007-10-01 Tempo (Edisi 1 Oktober 2007) rel B licensed

Keluarga Besar Aidit: Sesudah Malam Horor Itu (Tempo, 1 Oct 2007)

The Aidit family: after that night of horror (Tempo, 1 Oct 2007)

Tempo special (1 October 2007) on what happened to D.N. Aidit's family after 30 September 1965. It recounts the fates of his father, siblings and children, and of his wife Dr Soetanti Aidit, who fled, lived in disguise, was arrested, held in Kodim 66 and Bukit Duri until about 1980, and died in 1991. Her Gerwani member