Patrol ambushed - three dead
Algemeen Dagblad front page (1949-11-08) with several military items; relevant part: Salawati Daoed, woman member of the Makassar municipal council, sought over the gang that murdered Faroko representative Pluyter, has been arrested. Also reports a Darul Islam ambush near Brebes and an abduction near Salatiga.
Still terror in Indonesia
Eindhovensch Dagblad roundup 'Still terror in Indonesia' (8 Nov 1949, p.3): a Dutch patrol ambushed by a Darul Islam band near Brebes, Central Java, and, from Celebes, the arrest in Makassar of councillor Salawati Daoed (Salawati Daud), sought in connection with the Masamba gang. A report is being prepared in Masamba b
Salatiga: national action committee formed
De Locomotief, 29 July 1953: Salatiga branches of SOBSI, BTI, PPDI, Pemuda Rakjat and Gerwis jointly convene a meeting of 35 organisations and parties, which forms a national action committee and decides to send an open letter to Sukarno urging implementation of parliament's decisions and action against Darul Islam and
Impressive ceremony on the invasion beach (with item on Gerwani and the Union)
Het Vaderland front page (8 Jun 1954) opening with Dutch resistance veterans' wreath-laying at the Normandy invasion beaches, followed by Indonesian news. A short passage 'Indon. comm. women and the Union' says the Indonesian feminist movement Gerwani, recently hostess to delegations of communist women from Russia and
The army: violence against Gerwani women near Solo
De Waarheid, 8 Nov 1965, p. 3: report that the army continues violent actions against progressives; per an army communique, paratroopers near Solo shot nine women who stood before tanks and refused to move, said to be Gerwani members. Also notes army encouragement of Muslims to destroy communists' buildings in Tasikmal