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GA-02602 1966-02-07 rel C

Airgram A-503: Will There Be a Putsch against Sukarno? 7 Februari 1966

Airgram A-503: Will There Be a Putsch against Sukarno? 7 Feb 1966

US Embassy airgram A-503, 7 Feb 1966, assessing whether anyone would stage a putsch against Sukarno (students, parties, generals, Sarwo Edhie). Women appear only in Sukarno's remark that women were not 'frying stones'; Gerwani absent.

GA-00661 1966-02-25 De Nieuwe Limburger rel C

Gevechten in Djakarta (Fighting in Jakarta)

Fighting in Jakarta: students storm Sukarno's palace

De Nieuwe Limburger, 25 Feb 1966: students storm Sukarno's palace after the swearing-in of the new cabinet; Sukarno calls them 'madmen' and the cabinet is derided as a 'Gestapu cabinet'. A photo caption notes that KOWANI members also joined the mass gathering at the palace. Gerwani is not named.

GA-01330 1973-09-22 NRC Handelsblad rel C

Hollands Dagboek, donderdag 13 sept. (Dutch Diary, Thursday 13 Sept.)

Dutch Diary, Thursday 13 Sept. (Willem Oltmans)

Willem Oltmans's 'Hollands Dagboek' in NRC Handelsblad (22 Sep 1973), entries 13-20 Sept. Covers his New Guinea/Luns campaign, Hatta, Pertamina corruption, Chile 1973 compared to Indonesia 1965 mass murder, and Nasution's letters about Aidit shared by Dewi Sukarno. Lists imprisoned Indonesian writers and journalists. N

GA-02250 2012-10-01 Tempo rel C licensed

Burhan Zainuddin Rusjiman: "Saya Punya License to Kill"

Tempo, 1 October 2012: Burhan Zainuddin Rusjiman - 'I had a licence to kill'

Tempo testimony (1 Oct 2012) of Burhan Zainuddin Rusjiman, 72, 'Burhan Kampak', a former HMI/KAMI/Laskar Ampera member in Yogyakarta given a pistol and 'license to kill' from Nov 1965, who hunted PKI with Kostrad/RPKAD in Yogyakarta, Gunungkidul and Klaten. Motivated by anti-communism and CGMI conflict; Gerwani not men

GA-02899 2025 rel C

I Don't Want to Die for Nothing in Prison: A Life Experience of a Former 1965-1966 Political Prisoner in Indonesia (Hidayat, 2025)

I Don't Want to Die for Nothing in Prison: life of a former 1965-66 political prisoner (Hidayat, 2025)

2025 single-case phenomenological study of an 86-year-old male former political prisoner (interviews via KontraS, 2024): union worker, arrest in 1966, torture, forced labour at Tangerang, Nusakambangan and Buru, later Aksi Kamisan activism. Male testimony; context only.