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Lay Out Figure Diorama, Museum Ekstrim Kiri, Lubang Buaya

Layout Sheet of Diorama Figures, Museum of the Extreme Left, Lubang Buaya

Typed layout sheet listing the 37 diorama titles of the Museum Pengkhianatan PKI ('Museum Ekstrim Kiri'), opened 1 Oct 1992, from Madiun 1948 through Aidit's capture, the Njono trial and 1974. Shows how the official PKI-treachery narrative was structured.

GA-02387 1965-10 rel A

JPRS, Translations on South and East Asia No. 101: Pers Indonesia Oktober 1965 (Pecat Gerwani dari Gerakan Wanita, dan lainnya)

JPRS Translations on South and East Asia No. 101: Indonesian press, October 1965 (dismiss Gerwani from the women's movem

JPRS Translations on South and East Asia No. 101: selected Oct 1965 Indonesian press items. Gerwani-related: Duta Masjarakat (16 Oct) 'Dismiss Gerwani from Women's Movement' saying members trained at Lobang Buaja and urging Kowani (chair Hurustiati Subandrio) to act; 11 Oct 'Gerwani and Pemuda Rakjat in Disguise' (clai

GA-03339 1965-10-07 Berita Harian rel A

Kemarahan memunchak terhadap PKI kerana pembunohan2 (Anger mounts against the PKI)

Anger mounts against the PKI over the killings (Berita Harian, 1965)

Berita Harian, 7 October 1965, p. 1: Sukarno's first cabinet meeting after 30 September; Nahdlatul Ulama demands a PKI ban and claims rebels armed Pemuda Rakyat, Gerwani and SOBSI, and that Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani members trained at 'Sarang Buaya' (Lubang Buaya). Also press and rally restrictions in Sumatra and an ar

GA-02186 1965-10-27 Suara Merdeka rel A

Suara Merdeka, 27 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1

Suara Merdeka, 27 October 1965, p. 1: Yogyakarta demands dissolution of PKI and Gerwani; Umi Sardjono

Suara Merdeka (Semarang), 27 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1. Richest page for Gerwani in this set: state of war in Central Java; 55 Yogyakarta organisations demand dissolution of the PKI and Gerwani; a demand to dismiss Umi Sardjono from the Kotrar political bureau.

GA-03337 1965-11-07 Berita Harian rel A

Wanita hamil belasan tahun mengaku (Lubang Buaya): PKI women members tell the story of the cruel killing

Pregnant teenager confesses: PKI women tell of the cruel killing at Lubang Buaya (Berita Harian, 1965)

Berita Minggu/Berita Harian, 7 November 1965, p. 10, UPI: the 'confession' of Jamilah, 15 and pregnant, a Pemuda Rakyat member, reported from Angkatan Bersenjata. She says about 100 Gerwani women among 500 at Halim were given knives, struck first, and hacked a blindfolded general's genitals. A core Lubang Buaya slander

GA-03341 1965-12-09 Berita Harian rel A

Wanita yang dipenjarakan (Tears at Bukit Duri), photo story by Kurnipi, UPI

Women in prison: tears at Bukit Duri (photo story, Berita Harian, 1965)

Berita Harian, 9 December 1965, p. 4: UPI photographer Kurnipi visits Bukit Duri women's prison, Jakarta (about 110 detainees), among them Gerwani leaders and MPs Salawati Daud and Umi Sardjono, plus Emi binti Madali, 20, who 'confessed' to killing General Yani, and two small children jailed with their mothers. Women p

GA-02388 1971-01 rel A

Penyiksaan Para Jenderal Diceritakan: Kesaksian Emi Marijam (Kompas, 12 Januari 1971; terjemahan JPRS)

Torture of the generals recounted: testimony of Emi Marijam (Kompas, 12 January 1971; JPRS translation)

JPRS translation of Kompas, 12 Jan 1971: Emi Marijam, 24, described as a Jakarta Gerwani activist, testifies as witness in the subversion trial of Pemuda Rakjat secretary-general Sukatno. She says she and three women were assigned to torture the generals at Lubang Buaja, gouging eyes for one million rupiah, after train

GA-03345 1971-01-13 The Straits Times rel A

Day woman gouged general's eyes with a knife (Emmy Marjam testimony)

Day woman gouged general's eyes with a knife: Emmy Marjam testimony (Straits Times, 1971)

The Straits Times, 13 January 1971, p. 2: at the special-court trial of Pemuda Rakjat chairman Sukatno, witness Emmy Marjam, 24, a Gerwani member now under arrest, testifies that she gouged a general's eyes with a knife and saw friends mutilate another's genitals at Lubang Buaya after training from 26 Sept. Reported as

GA-03342 1973-05-09 Berita Harian rel A

Wanita pertama dibicarakan bersabit rampasan kuasa 1965 ('Gestapo' woman to be tried)

First woman to be tried over the 1965 coup: 'Gestapo' woman (Berita Harian, 1973)

Berita Harian, 9 May 1973, p. 3, Reuters: a court spokesman says Mrs Sumali, a Gerwani leader, will be the first woman tried over the 1965 coup, charged with torturing an army general with a razor blade; she was arrested with other Gerwani members at Lubang Buaya on 1 October 1965 after six generals' bodies were found.

GA-01591 1984-07-08 Berita Yudha rel B

Berita Yudha, 8 Juli 1984: 'Mengarahkan remaja dari sikap frustasi'

Berita Yudha, 8 July 1984: Steering teenagers away from frustration

Berita Yudha, 8 July 1984, p. 4: youth-page essay using 1965 as a warning, saying teenagers drawn to the 'PKI education system' were used to murder the generals at Lubang Buaya; Gerwani invoked in passing.

GA-01616 1989-03-18 Harian Neraca rel B

Harian Neraca, 18 Maret 1989: 'Siapa menabur angin akan menuai badai' (65)

Harian Neraca serial 'Siapa menabur angin akan menuai badai' (65): Njono's confession and Untung as 'puppet'

Harian Neraca, 18 Maret 1989, p. 10: instalment 65 of Soegiarso Soerojo's serial. Covers Njono's confession on training at Lubang Buaya and opens a chapter on Untung as 'puppet'; names Mudigdio, mother of Aidit's wife, as a Gerwani figure.

GA-02875 2022 rel A

Gerwani Mazhab Politik Islam Era Soekarno (Rahmanudin, 2022)

Gerwani as a political school of Islam in the Sukarno era (Rahmanudin, 2022)

Deden Rahmanudin, 'Gerwani Mazhab Politik Islam Era Soekarno' (Jurnal Kewarganegaraan 6:2, 2022), a literature-based article presenting Gerwani as a feminist movement and discussing it from an Islamic viewpoint (Sukarno's Sarinah, Hamka). Drawing on Wieringa and Lestariningsih, it recounts Gerwani's 1950 founding, MPs

GA-02859 2025 rel A

Transformasi Gerwani: Keterlibatan dalam Perjuangan Gender hingga Stigmatisasi Pasca 1965 (Aisyah, 2025)

Transformation of Gerwani: gender struggle to post-1965 stigmatisation (Aisyah, 2025)

Rania Dhiyaulhaq Aisyah, 'Transformasi Gerwani' (Jurnal Sejarah Indonesia 8:2, 2025), a literature-based article on Gerwani's pre-1965 gender activism (education, health, anti-polygamy, 1955 elections, PKI ties, congresses) and its post-1965 stigmatisation. It repeats Wieringa's finding that the Lubang Buaya sexual-vio