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GA-02695 1975 TAPOL rel A

TAPOL Bulletin no. 9, Maret 1975: Women on Trial

TAPOL Bulletin no. 9, March 1975: Women on Trial

TAPOL Bulletin no. 9 (March 1975) front page 'Women on Trial': photo of Sulami, Sudjinah, Sri Ambar Rukmiati and Suharti Harsono at their 3 Feb 1975 trial for subversion, with a Lubang Buaya sewing-and-cooking allegation. Early international attention to Gerwani trials.

GA-00274 1975-07-30 Tharunka rel A

Indonesian Women (Tharunka, 30 Jul 1975)

Indonesian Women (Tharunka, 30 July 1975)

Tharunka (UNSW student paper), 30 July 1975, p. 8, article 'Indonesian Women' on women political prisoners after 1965. It describes Gerwani as the largest left women's organisation, targeted by a press campaign depicting members as sex-maniacs and Lubang Buaya participants, and banned in October 1965. It reports at lea

GA-00275 1975-07-30 Tharunka rel A

Indonesian Women: The Banned Women's Organisation (Tharunka, 30 Jul 1975)

Indonesian Women: The Banned Women's Organisation (Tharunka, 30 July 1975)

Tharunka (UNSW student paper), 30 July 1975, p. 8, clean OCR of the article 'Indonesian Women: The Banned Women's Organisation' (same article as GA-00274). It presents Gerwani as unaffiliated with the PKI, then attacked in 1965 by press stories of 'Gerwani prostitutes', 'obscene sex-dancing' and genital mutilation of g

GA-02699 1975-08 TAPOL rel A

TAPOL Bulletin No. 11, August 1975

TAPOL Bulletin no. 11, August 1975, on the 'show trials' ahead of the tenth anniversary. Key item (p.3): four women, including Gerwani General Secretary Sulami, sentenced after a five-month trial to 15-20 years for subversion (helping the PKPS movement, illegal cells, alleged recruitment of cooks and seamstresses for L

GA-02712 1980-01 TAPOL rel A

TAPOL Bulletin No. 37, January 1980 (Indonesia's Political Trials)

TAPOL Bulletin No. 37, January 1980: Indonesia's Political Trials

TAPOL Bulletin no. 37 (London, January 1980): editorial on the end of KOPKAMTIB's release plan, plus Julie Southwood's long study of 1,014 political trials since 1966. It notes the 1965 Lubang Buaya claim that communist women castrated the generals, and the 1975 subversion trial of Gerwani's Sulami and Sudjinah, with S

GA-03664 2003-02 TAPOL Bulletin no. 169/170 rel A

TAPOL Bulletin No. 169/170, January/February 2003

TAPOL Bulletin No. 169/170, Jan/Feb 2003: obituary of Sulami (Gerwani deputy secretary-general)

TAPOL Bulletin no. 169/170 (Jan/Feb 2003), with Carmel Budiardjo's obituary of Sulami (pp. 13-15). Born Sragen 15 Aug 1926, she joined Gerwis (Gerwani from 1951), became East Java executive member (1954) and second deputy secretary-general (1957), attended WIDF meetings, and was deputy secretary-general in 1965. Arrest

GA-03665 2007-04 TAPOL Bulletin No. 186 rel A

TAPOL Bulletin No. 186, April 2007

TAPOL Bulletin No. 186, Apr 2007: Sulami's exhumation campaign; review of Kembang-kembang Genjer

TAPOL Bulletin no. 186 (April 2007). A feature (p. 19) notes Sulami's exhumation campaign and that Gerwani, before 1965 'the most active women's organisation', was banned and its members singled out. A review (pp. 21-24) of the book Kembang-kembang Genjer (foreword by Saskia Wieringa) summarises Sumilah, Tami (Njoto's