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GA-00991 1964-03-12 Friese Koerier OnafhankelijK Dagblad Voor Friesland En Aangrenzende Gebieden rel B

De boer opgegaan (communisten op het Indonesische platteland)

Gone to the farmer: communists in the Indonesian countryside

Friese Koerier travel/feature piece (12 Mar 1964, p.11) on how Indonesian communists won rural support via relief after Darul Islam raids, farming advice, theatre, wayang and badminton. It states the communists founded nominally non-communist organisations: BTI, Gerwani ('the Indonesian women's movement') and Pemuda Ra

GA-02114 1965 Pravda rel A

Pravda, 7 Oktober 1965, no. 280 (Peristiwa di Indonesia: tuntutan melarang Gerwani)

Pravda, 7 Oct 1965: events in Indonesia, demands to ban Gerwani

Pravda no. 280, 7 October 1965 (full issue). Page 3 TASS item 'On the events in Indonesia' (Jakarta, 6 Oct): Nahdlatul Ulama and other groups, via Angkatan Bersendjata, demand Sukarno ban the PKI, Pemuda Rakyat, Gerwani, SOBSI; mass arrests of Communists; Sukarno urges calm ('saving the revolution is more important tha

GA-02115 1965 Pravda rel A

Pravda, 7 Oktober 1965, no. 280 (Peristiwa di Indonesia: tuntutan melarang Gerwani)

Pravda, 7 Oct 1965: events in Indonesia, demands to ban Gerwani (excerpt)

Pravda no. 280, 7 October 1965 (excerpt of the page). Page 3 TASS item 'On the events in Indonesia' (Jakarta, 6 Oct): Nahdlatul Ulama and other groups, via Angkatan Bersendjata, demand Sukarno ban the PKI, Pemuda Rakyat, Gerwani, SOBSI; mass arrests of Communists; Sukarno urges calm ('saving the revolution is more impo

GA-02506 1965-10-05 rel B licensed

Moslem Groups Call for Disbanding of PKI (FBIS, 5 Oct 1965)

FBIS-monitored Jakarta radio text (5 Oct 1965) of the Nahdlatul Ulama executive board and affiliates' statement. It cites authorities' 'fact' that Pemuda Rakjat and Gerwani members were brought from afar to be trained at Lubang Buaya where the generals' bodies were found, and asks Sukarno to disband PKI, Pemuda Rakjat,

GA-02507 1965-10-07 rel B licensed

Islamic Peasant Union Issues Instructions (FBIS, 7 Oct 1965)

FBIS-monitored Jakarta radio item (7 Oct 1965): Gertasi, a Gasbiindo transport union and the Progressive Pioneer Youth called for dissolving PKI and its mass organisations. The transport union salutes ABRI for arresting 'members of the people's youth (Pemuda Rakjat) and the Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani), both s

GA-02509 1965-10-07 rel B licensed

Perti Moslem Party (FBIS, 7 Oct 1965)

FBIS item (7 Oct 1965, Jakarta radio): the Perti party's executive board denounces the 'gestapo-style' terror, backs NU and PSII demands that Sukarno dissolve the PKI and its affiliates, listing Pemuda Rakjat, Gerwani, SOBSI, CGMI, Lekra, and suspends three members, placing the party under Rusli Abdul Wahid. Another ea

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-01981 1965-10-20 Renmin Ribao rel A licensed

Renmin Ribao, 20 Oktober 1965: Sikap pihak-pihak lain di Indonesia (印度尼西亚其他方面的态度)

Other Indonesian parties' stance after 30 September: Nahdlatul Ulama statement (snippet)

Snippet-only Renmin Ribao extract (20 Oct 1965, p. 5) from a compilation of Indonesian statements after 30 September. The visible text is point 3 of the Nahdlatul Ulama statement, claiming Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani members were sent from afar to Lubang Buaya for training; truncated. Full text is GA-01982.

GA-01982 1965-10-20 Renmin Ribao rel A licensed

Renmin Ribao, 20 Oktober 1965: Sikap pihak-pihak lain di Indonesia (印度尼西亚其他方面的态度)

Stance of other parties in Indonesia: statements demanding dissolution of PKI and mass organisations

Renmin Ribao compilation (20 Oct 1965, p. 5) of Indonesian organisations' statements after 30 September, taken from Radio Republik Indonesia and Antara. Nahdlatul Ulama and affiliates, Perti and others demand dissolution of the PKI, Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani; the NU text alleges Gerwani and Pemuda Rakyat members were t

GA-01983 1965-10-20 Renmin Ribao rel A licensed

Renmin Ribao, 20 Oktober 1965: Perubahan mendadak situasi politik Indonesia (印度尼西亚政局发生急剧变化)

Sudden change in Indonesia's political situation (snippet)

Snippet-only Renmin Ribao front-page extract (20 Oct 1965): in an article on the abrupt change in Indonesian politics, Nahdlatul Ulama and others demand the early dissolution of the PKI, Pemuda Rakyat, Gerwani and other organisations, and a ban on supportive publications; truncated. Full text is GA-01984.

GA-01698 1965-12-06 Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata, Intisari Berita, 6 Desember 1965

Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 6 December 1965: speech linking godless knowledge to Lubang Buaya

Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 6 Desember 1965. Speech at the Akademi Bahasa Asing Indonesia warning that godless knowledge led PR, CGMI and Gerwani/PKI to 'strip naked and sleep together at Lubang Buaya' because it held that 'women and men are equal'.

GA-03048 1976 rel C licensed

The Crescent Arises over the Banyan Tree: A Study of the Muhammadijah Movement in a Central Javanese Town

The Crescent Arises over the Banyan Tree: Muhammadiyah in a Central Javanese Town (Nakamura, 1976)

Mitsuo Nakamura's 1976 Cornell PhD thesis, an ethnography and local history of the Muhammadiyah reform movement in Kotagede, Yogyakarta, arguing that Islamization of Java is an ongoing, internally generated process. Gerwani appears only in passing (p. 208), listed with Pemuda Rakyat and Lekra as PKI-influenced mass org

GA-02910 2009 rel B licensed

Confronting the Past in Contemporary Indonesia: The Anticommunist Killings of 1965-66 and the Role of the Nahdlatul Ulama (McGregor, 2009)

Confronting the Past: the anticommunist killings of 1965-66 and the role of Nahdlatul Ulama (McGregor, 2009)

Katharine McGregor's 2009 article on NU's support for the 1965-66 killings (e.g. its 5 Oct 1965 call to ban the PKI, Gerwani and others), their celebration under the New Order and Syarikat's post-1998 reconciliation work. Context on religious-organisation role.

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