Angkatan Bersendjata, 17 Jan 1966. Semarang report on the death of Karyono Purbominoto (alleged Pati 'Dewan Revolusi' designer) noting his wife Marsih, village head and 'pentolan Gerwani', remains at large; KAMI protests.
Leeuwarder Courant, 18 March 1966, p. 1: report on Suharto's army placing Foreign Minister Subandrio, twelve other ministers and Saleh in 'protective custody' after the 11 March order, with tanks aimed at the Merdeka palace, Adam Malik made acting foreign minister, and student demonstrations. Suharto cites trial testim
Nieuwsblad van het Noorden, 19 March 1966, p. 1: report on Suharto's 'quiet 12-hour coup' that purged Sukarno's cabinet and arrested 15 ministers including Subandrio. A photo caption says Indonesian women loudly cheered the new regime at a Jakarta mass meeting. Gerwani is not mentioned.
Peking Review Vol. 9 No. 18, 29 April 1966, a Chinese weekly. Besides Cultural Revolution and Afro-Asian Journalists' Association material, it carries Chinese protests against Indonesian anti-China outrages and a Renmin Ribao commentary, 'Right-Wing Reactionaries Plunge Indonesia into a Bloodbath' (p. 25), quoting New
Angkatan Bersendjata, 2 Mei 1966. Final instalment of a series on ex-Bali governor Sutedja lists PKI 'military training centres' in Bali, among them a Gerwani centre led by Nyonya Gede Puger, with trainers 'presumably graduates of Lubang Buaya'.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 14 Mei 1966. Front-page report of Ibu Soeharto telling armed forces wives to adopt their husbands' ideology: 'let it not happen that an ABRI wife becomes a member of Gerwani'.
US Embassy airgram A-808, 29 June 1966: the Army Military Police Corps (CPM) screens ministry officials for 'subversive opinions' about 30 September under Supersemar authority, using a loyalty questionnaire. Shows the bureaucratic purge and screening of 'involvement'.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 9 Juli 1966. 'Istri-istri ABRI turun tangan': Ny. Nasution says army wives take over social work, hampered earlier by 'Gestapu/PKI such as Gerwani', illustrating the displacement of Gerwani's welfare activities by military wives.
US Embassy airgram A-65, 3 Aug 1966, recording anthropologist James Fox's account of Army executions of communists on Roti, Sawu and Timor and his estimate of 800-1,000 killed in the region. Eastern Indonesia context; Gerwani not discussed in the excerpt.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 7 September 1966. Page 2 regional item mentioning Gerwani; front page shows New Order consolidation (Suharto: no place for PKI; Sukarno 'I am a Marxist') and Mahmillub death sentences in Medan.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 1 Oktober 1966 (edisi Hari Kesaktian Pancasila pertama). First-anniversary issue and the richest Gerwani source in the batch: prints the official 'Risalah singkat tragedi nasional' claiming officers were tortured 'beyond humanity by members of Pemuda Rakyat and GERWANI', plus 'Bung Piket' retrospe
Angkatan Bersendjata, 2 Oktober 1966 (edisi Mingguan). Sunday weekly edition continuing the army's 'Risalah singkat tragedi nasional' (p. 3), repeating that four officers were tortured 'by members of Pemuda Rakjat and GERWANI' before being thrown into the Lubang Buaya well.
Berita Yudha, 5 Oktober 1966: wawancara Ibu Tien Soeharto. Armed Forces Day issue with a front-page interview with Ibu Tien Soeharto, 'May our children not inherit the barbarity and immorality of Gerwani', and Perwari conferring 'Penyelamat Revolusi' on Suharto.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 9 Oktober 1966 (edisi Mingguan). Cultural-page polemic against Lekra calls it a 'myth' that 'without Gerwani the women's movement has no meaning'; issue dominated by ABRI's 21st anniversary and the Subandrio trial.
US Embassy airgram A-218, 5 Nov 1966, on a Central Java trip showing the Army's 'ironclad grip': roadblocks, meeting bans, ID checks, prison numbers and ex-prisoners as pariahs. Women appear only as the Army lieutenant's wife in village pacification.
Berita Yudha, 20 Desember 1966: 'Istri Aidit dibekuk ABRI'. Banner lead on the arrest on 19 Dec 1966 of D.N. Aidit's wife, a physician and daughter of Mudigdio, in Cipete Udik, living under an alias.
Amigoe di Curaçao wire report, 22 Dec 1966: Indonesian chiefs of staff warn against illegal action as students demand Sukarno resign over the 1965 coup. A Mother's Day meeting of women's organisations at Sukarno's palace (organised by the PNI women's league) was boycotted by other groups including the women's action fr