Gerwani Archive
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2 itemsPerson: Johannes Leimena ✕Organisation: Institute of People's Culture ✕
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GA-02612 1964-10-23 rel B licensed

CIA, 'Sukarno and the Communists' (Office of Current Intelligence, 23 October 1964)

CIA, 'Sukarno and the Communists' (Office of Current Intelligence, 23 Oct 1964)

CIA Office of Current Intelligence report 'Sukarno and the Communists' (23 Oct 1964, ten pages), pre-coup assessment of the PKI-Sukarno relationship. Describes PKI growth to a claimed three million members and its fronts, including the Women's Front (GERWANI), 'almost two million'; also the cabinet, National Front, lan

GA-03050 1970 rel B licensed

Youth and the Wane of Soekarno's Government

Youth and the Wane of Soekarno's Government (Paget, 1970)

Roger Paget's 1970 Cornell PhD thesis on how student and youth action groups, culminating in KAMI, emerged after 1 October 1965 and helped undermine Sukarno. Gerwani appears in several passages: action fronts demanded its banning (p. 44) and its offices were ransacked (p. 63); Herlina denounced it for not fighting Mala