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GA-02627 1960-09 rel B licensed

Situasi politik Indonesia, mingguan, September 1960 (Indonesia political affairs: weekly situation reports)

Weekly Situation Reports on Indonesian Politics, September 1960

Compilation of Djakarta embassy weekly situation telegrams to the State Department, September 1960, on the army-Sukarno struggle over the PKI ban and a temporary ban on party activity. Gerwani is mentioned only in passing among PKI front organisations (with SOBSI, BTI) protesting bans.

GA-02630 1961-01 rel B licensed

Komunisme dan Partai Komunis Indonesia, despatch Januari 1961 (Indonesia political affairs: communism and the PKI)

Communism and the PKI, Despatch of January 1961

US embassy Djakarta despatch compilation (Jan 1961) analysing communism and the PKI, including its front organisations. The overview describes Gerwani as the communist women's organisation used for price and anti-bomb demonstrations, affiliated with the WIDF (which funds trips abroad for prominent members), and contras