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GA-01425 1952-04-23 Harian Rakjat rel B

Harian Rakjat, 23 April 1952 (p. 4): Hari Kartini commemorations, Ny. Sri Kusnapsiah speaks

Harian Rakjat, 23 April 1952: Kartini Day commemorations, Mrs Sri Kusnapsiah speaks

Page of the Jakarta daily Harian Rakjat, 23 April 1952 (Kartini Day issue; OCR very noisy). It reports Hari Kartini commemorations in Jakarta (about 650 women at Garden Hall), in The Hague, where Ny. S. Sri Kusnapsiah spoke on Kartini's aims and thought, and in Semarang, Bogor and elsewhere, alongside Wilopo-cabinet an

GA-02178 1965-10-20 Suara Merdeka rel B

Suara Merdeka, 20 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1

Suara Merdeka, 20 October 1965, p. 1: Suharto order of the day and suspension of PKI organisations

Suara Merdeka (Semarang), 20 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1. Front page with Suharto's first order of the day and the RRI report of the Pepelrada Jakarta decree suspending PKI, Pemuda Rakyat, Gerwani, BTI, CGMI, Lekra and others; one of the first formal measures against Gerwani.

GA-02181 1965-10-22 Suara Merdeka rel B

Suara Merdeka, 22 Oktober 1965, hlm. 2–3

Suara Merdeka, 22 October 1965, pp. 2-3: Semarang mass action, Majalengka dissolution, student demands

Suara Merdeka (Semarang), 22 Oktober 1965, hlm. 2–3. Editorials on Col. Katamso and the Semarang mass action, self-dissolution in Majalengka co-signed by a Gerwani representative, and UI students demanding dissolution of PKI, Gerwani and others.

GA-03344 1965-11-03 The Straits Budget rel B

Indonesian Army says wholesale slaughter of civilians in east Java

Indonesian Army says wholesale slaughter of civilians in east Java (Straits Budget, 1965)

The Straits Budget (Singapore), 3 November 1965, p. 15, UPI/Antara: the army declares a state of war in Central Java and gives figures for civilians it says communists massacred (e.g. 62 bodies in three mass graves at Banyuwangi, 104 killed), while observers note the incidents all occurred after the coup. Nothing on Ge

GA-01690 1965-11-18 Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata, Intisari Berita, 18 November 1965

Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 18 November 1965: arrests in Central Java and 'self-dissolution' of...

Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 18 November 1965. Round-up from Central Java reports 1,636 arrests 'including 16 Gerwani members' and 'self-dissolution' of the PKI and mass organisations in several towns; a second Gerwani item names a woman.

GA-03036 1968 rel B licensed

The Politico-Military Role of the Indonesian Armed Forces, October 1965–1968 (MA dissertation, University of Chicago)

The Politico-Military Role of the Indonesian Armed Forces, October 1965-1968 (Fox, 1968)

Edward J. Fox, University of Chicago MA dissertation (1968; the catalogue title says PhD) on the Indonesian armed forces' control programme and the pattern of violence from October 1965 to early 1968. Gerwani appears only in passing: a footnote cites 1.75 million members and notes its self-dissolution (p.32), and one u

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-03650 2009 Pusat Sejarah dan Tradisi TNI / Yayasan Kajian Citra Bangsa, Jakarta rel A

Komunisme di Indonesia, Jilid IV: Pemberontakan G30S/PKI dan Penumpasannya (1960-1965)

Communism in Indonesia, Vol. IV: The G30S/PKI Rebellion and its Suppression (1960-1965), Pusjarah TNI, 2009

Official Army history (Pusjarah TNI, Jakarta 2009), vol. IV of 'Komunisme di Indonesia', presenting Gerwani as a PKI mass organisation in the 1960-65 build-up and the G30S. It reports Gerwani's Nov-Dec 1964 housewives' seminar (p. 70), 'unilateral actions' (p. 122), the 27 Sept 1965 Surabaya governor's-office raid unde

GA-03651 2009 Pusat Sejarah dan Tradisi TNI / Yayasan Kajian Citra Bangsa, Jakarta rel A

Komunisme di Indonesia, Jilid IV: Pemberontakan G30S/PKI dan Penumpasannya (1960-1965)

Communism in Indonesia, Vol. IV: The G30S/PKI Rebellion and its Suppression (1960-1965), Pusjarah TNI, 2009

Official Army history (Pusjarah TNI, Jakarta 2009), vol. IV of 'Komunisme di Indonesia', presenting Gerwani as a PKI mass organisation in the 1960-65 build-up and the G30S. It reports Gerwani's Nov-Dec 1964 housewives' seminar (p. 70), 'unilateral actions' (p. 122), the 27 Sept 1965 Surabaya governor's-office raid unde

GA-03062 2020 rel A licensed

Years of Dressing Dangerously: Modern Women, National Identity and Moral Crisis in Sukarno's Indonesia, 1945-1966

Years of Dressing Dangerously: Modern Women, National Identity and Moral Crisis in Sukarno's Indonesia (Sullivan, 2020)

Charles P. Sullivan's PhD dissertation (History, University of Michigan, 2020) reads Indonesian women's magazines (Wanita, Puspa Wanita, Varia) from 1945-66 to argue that the Lubang Buaya narrative about Gerwani worked as a 'post-text' of long-running anxieties over modernity, moral crisis and the 'Mother of the Nation