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GA-02926 1966 rel B licensed

Dossier of the Indonesian Drama (New Left Review 36)

Dossier of the Indonesian Drama (Lucien Rey, New Left Review, 1966)

Article by Lucien Rey (New Left Review no. 36, March 1966) reconstructing the 1 October 1965 events as a plot by dissident Central Java officers, plus a translated Asahi Shimbun interview with PKI deputy chair Njoto. Says People's Youth and Gerwani auxiliaries trained at Halim took part in the generals' executions in r

GA-00191 1966-01-06 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 6 Januari 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 6 January 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 6 Jan 1966. Antara claims PKI leaders 'admitted' Gerwani and Pemuda Rakyat were physically trained in North Sumatra before 1 October; two Pekalongan women 'known as Gerwani' forced to recite the shahada; Soetiman's 'confession'.

GA-03458 1966-02-24 Neues Deutschland, p. 7 rel B licensed

Neues Deutschland, 24 Feb 1966, p. 7: Njono verteidigte standhaft die KP (defence counsel Frau Sunito)

Neues Deutschland, 24 Feb 1966: Njono firmly defended the Communist Party

Page 7 of the SED daily Neues Deutschland, 24 Feb 1966, with a commentary and an ADN dispatch on the death sentence passed on PKI Politburo member Njono on 21 Feb. The dispatch says his defence counsel, Frau Sunito (Trees Sunito), also showed the accusations to be groundless. The commentary condemns the killings of Com

GA-03459 1966-02-24 Neues Deutschland, p. 7 rel B licensed

Neues Deutschland, 24 Feb 1966, p. 7: Njono verteidigte standhaft die KP (defence counsel Frau Sunito)

Neues Deutschland, 24 Feb 1966: Njono firmly defended the Communist Party

Page 7 of the SED daily Neues Deutschland, 24 Feb 1966, with a commentary and an ADN dispatch on the death sentence passed on PKI Politburo member Njono on 21 Feb. The dispatch says his defence counsel, Frau Sunito (Trees Sunito), also showed the accusations to be groundless. The commentary condemns the killings of Com

GA-00205 1966-03-11 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 11 Maret 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 11 March 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 11 Mar 1966 (Supersemar day). Regional column reports Pasaman husbands divorcing wives who are Gerwani, and release of 37 ex-detainees in Pati including six ex-Gerwani; PGRI petition to dissolve the PKI.

GA-01991 1966-04-19 Renmin Ribao rel A licensed

Renmin Ribao, 19 April 1966: Komite Solidaritas Asia-Afrika Thailand memprotes penindasan di Indonesia (泰国亚非人民团结委员会发表新闻公报)

Thai Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee protests repression in Indonesia (snippet)

Snippet-only Renmin Ribao extract (19 Apr 1966, p. 4) from a Thai Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee communiqué protesting Indonesia's repression. It lists banned mass organisations including Gerwani and notes the 12 March 1966 ban on the PKI; truncated. Full text is GA-01992.

GA-01992 1966-04-19 Renmin Ribao rel B licensed

Renmin Ribao, 19 April 1966: Komite Solidaritas Asia-Afrika Thailand memprotes penindasan di Indonesia (泰国亚非人民团结委员会发表新闻公报)

Thai Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee communique condemns Indonesian military killings and arrests

Xinhua report in Renmin Ribao (19 Apr 1966, p. 4) of a 13 April communiqué by the Thai Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Committee condemning Indonesia's military and 'reactionaries': 78,500 killed and 106,000 arrested per the Fact-Finding Commission in Bali, Java and North Sumatra; bans on Pemuda Rakyat, CGMI, Gerwani, B

GA-00731 1966-04-23 De Tijd rel A

Gruwelen (Atrocities)

Atrocities: account of the generals' killing and alleged Gerwani role (duplicate record)

De Tijd article "Gruwelen" (23 Apr 1966) recounting the 1 Oct 1965 killings of the generals, claiming a hundred Gerwani women at Halim took part in torturing them with knives and razor blades after "training" including sexual orgies and blood oaths, citing a 15-year-old "Miss Djamilah" and the Djakarta Mail of 5 Nov. D

GA-01685 1966-04-29 Peking Review rel B

Peking Review No. 18, 29 April 1966: 'White terror' in Indonesia, women and children killed

Peking Review no. 18, 29 April 1966: 'white terror' in Indonesia, women and children killed

Peking Review Vol. 9 No. 18, 29 April 1966, a Chinese weekly. Besides Cultural Revolution and Afro-Asian Journalists' Association material, it carries Chinese protests against Indonesian anti-China outrages and a Renmin Ribao commentary, 'Right-Wing Reactionaries Plunge Indonesia into a Bloodbath' (p. 25), quoting New

GA-00366 1966-06-29 Tribune rel A

Dossier of a slaughter (Tribune, 29 Juni 1966)

Dossier of a slaughter

Tribune (Sydney), 29 Jun 1966, p. 5: editorial attacking Western press whitewashing of the Suharto regime plus a long reconstruction of 30 Sep-1 Oct 1965 taken from the British New Left Review, portraying the movement as junior officers' action. It mentions that Halim auxiliaries from Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani took par

GA-00367 1966-06-29 Tribune rel A

Dossier of a slaughter (Tribune, 29 Juni 1966)

Dossier of a slaughter

Tribune (Sydney), 29 Jun 1966, p. 5: editorial attacking Western press whitewashing of the Suharto regime plus a long reconstruction of 30 Sep-1 Oct 1965 taken from the British New Left Review, portraying the movement as junior officers' action. It mentions that Halim auxiliaries from Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani took par

GA-02606 1966-08-03 rel C

Airgram A-65: Conditions and Attitudes in East Nusatenggara, 3 Agustus 1966

Airgram A-65: Conditions and Attitudes in East Nusatenggara, 3 Aug 1966

US Embassy airgram A-65, 3 Aug 1966, recording anthropologist James Fox's account of Army executions of communists on Roti, Sawu and Timor and his estimate of 800-1,000 killed in the region. Eastern Indonesia context; Gerwani not discussed in the excerpt.