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GA-00911 1965-10-19 De Waarheid rel A

Legercommandant: PKI-verbod Djakarta en omgeving

Army commander bans PKI in Jakarta and surroundings, including Gerwani

De Waarheid, 19 Oct 1965, p. 3: report, citing foreign agencies, that Jakarta garrison commander General Umar Wirahadikusumo provisionally banned the PKI in and around Jakarta, along with SOBSI, Pemuda Rakjat, Gerwani and some student groups, and ordered their leaders to report to police or military posts before 24 Oct

GA-00916 1966-11-07 De Waarheid rel A

Levendige discussie (20 jaar NVB)

Lively discussion: twenty years of the Dutch Women's Movement

De Waarheid, 7 Nov 1966, p. 3: report on the NVB's 20th-anniversary congress and gathering in Amsterdam. Chair Heiltje de Vos recalls NVB solidarity with Indonesia and proudly notes that first NVB chair Trees Sunito-Heyligers recently defended PKI leader Njono before the generals' military tribunal in Jakarta. Greeting

GA-00948 1978-07-25 De Waarheid rel A

Proces tegen Tanti Aidit

Trial against Tanti Aidit

De Waarheid, 25 Jul 1978, p. 2: report that the army paper Berita Yudha says a charge has been drawn up against Tanti (Soetanti) Aidit, physician and widow of PKI chair D.N. Aidit, arrested after 1965; she will be tried on allegations that as a board member of Gerwani she was involved in the '30 September Movement'. Th

GA-00953 1979-06-06 De Waarheid rel C

Lubis' Land onder regenboog: geschiedenis met slordigheden, fouten en vooringenomenheid

Lubis' Land under the Rainbow: history with sloppiness, errors and bias

Joop Morriën's critical review in De Waarheid (6 June 1979, p.5) of Mochtar Lubis's illustrated history 'Het land onder de regenboog'. He faults its errors and 'virulent anti-communism', says it adopts Suharto's version of 1965, and notes the Madiun 1948 and 1965 killings of communists and Lekra artists' imprisonment.

GA-00965 1985-09-30 De Waarheid rel B

De bewogen aanklacht van Mohammad Munir

The moving indictment of Mohammad Munir

De Waarheid (30 Sep 1985, p.5) excerpts the 1973 defence plea of PKI/union leader Mohammad Munir, executed in May 1985, before a military tribunal. He describes the post-October 1965 hate campaign aimed at PKI, Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani, the mass killings and camps; an editorial note says the generals' deaths were used

GA-00966 1985-09-30 De Waarheid rel B

Niet schuldig (slot van het pleidooi van Mohammad Munir)

Not guilty (close of Mohammad Munir's plea)

Continuation of De Waarheid's excerpt of Mohammad Munir's 1973 defence plea (30 Sep 1985, p.5). He denies the PKI attempted a coup, criticises Suharto's economic policy, and demands release of all 30 September prisoners including those in Buru, Nusakambangan and the women's camp Plantungan. A footnote glosses Gerwani a

GA-00977 1989-09-02 De Waarheid rel B

Moorden (Suharto en de massamoorden van 1965-66)

Murders (Suharto and the mass killings of 1965-66)

De Waarheid piece (2 Sep 1989, p.16) criticising Suharto's silence on the 1965-66 massacres, quoting Stanley Karnow and C.L. Sulzberger on the killings and estimates of 300,000 to one million dead. It notes mass arrests without trial of hundreds of thousands, including members of SOBSI, Gerwani and Pemuda Rakjat, and t