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GA-00979 1948-09-22 Deventer Dagblad rel C

Republikeinen willen Madioen ontzetten

Republicans want to relieve Madiun

Deventer Dagblad front-page roundup (22 Sep 1948) on the Madiun affair: republican forces prepare to retake Madiun, communist leaders of the FDR are arrested in Magelang, curfews in Kediri, Solo calmed, fighting organisations disarmed, and a 'social revolution' purge in Sumatra. Mentions Colonel Djokosoejono as communi

GA-00983 1948-09-24 Eindhovensch Dagblad rel C

De Republiek zuivert op Sumatra: talrijke arrestaties

The Republic purges Sumatra: numerous arrests

Eindhovensch Dagblad report (24 Sep 1948, p.5) on republican purge arrests of military officers in Tapanuli, Sumatra (Padang Sidempuan, Sibolga, Tarutung), with a second Aneta account that communist laskars effectively control the area. Also reports two executed 'terrorists' who used village women as cover in July raid

GA-02568 1965 rel B licensed

Indonesia: Internal Political Situation, Attempted Coup against Sukarno [15] (FO 371/180324, 1965)

FO 371/180324: Attempted Coup against Sukarno [15] (Nov 1965)

UK Foreign Office file FO 371/180324 (1965), 'Attempted coup against Sukarno [15]': telegrams and letters from Djakarta, Washington and Peking, November 1965, plus appended US and Canadian reports. It records Sukarno's Heroes Day speech, Adam Malik's view of the Sukarno-generals stalemate and accounts of 30 September.

GA-02634 1965-11 rel A licensed

The Anti-Communist Campaign in Indonesia: A Chronology (USIA R-158-65), November 1965

The Anti-Communist Campaign in Indonesia: A Chronology (USIA R-158-65), Nov 1965

USIA Research and Reference Service report R-158-65 (November 1965), a chronology of the anti-Communist campaign in Indonesia, 1-20 October 1965, built on Indonesian and foreign radio and press. Gerwani entries: Suharto's 4 Oct TV statement linking the generals' murders to Pemuda Rakjat and Gerwani training grounds; NU

GA-02076 1965-11-07 Nograd rel A

Nógrád, 7 November 1965, hlm. 19 (Tentara membunuh perempuan komunis demonstran di Solo)

Nógrád, 7 Nov 1965: army kills communist women demonstrators in Solo

Page of Hungarian county daily Nograd, 7 Nov 1965, with an MTI Djakarta dispatch: the army press office says paratroopers 'were forced to take the lives' of Gerwani women who blocked a military column in Solo (Surakarta), Central Java; the communique does not state numbers. Also Pravda's Jakarta report on the banning o

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