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GA-00611 1950-08-15 De Locomotief rel B

'Zij mochten niet meedoen: 17 Augustus is een rouwdag' (17 August is a day of mourning)

'They were not allowed to take part': 17 August is a day of mourning

De Locomotief, 15 Aug 1950 (Aneta): SOBSI, Rukun Tani, a youth front, PRRI and the women's organisation GERWIS form a committee to commemorate the 'People's Proclamation of 17 August 1945', declaring 17 August 1950 a day of mourning because the RTC-style unitary state buries the 1945 republic. They protest the ban on b

GA-01015 1950-08-15 Het Nieuwsblad Voor Sumatra rel B

SOBSI beschouwt 17 Augustus als 'rouwdag' voor het volk: 'Eenheidsstaat à la R.T.C.'

SOBSI regards 17 August as a 'day of mourning': 'unitary state a la RTC'

Het Nieuwsblad voor Sumatra (15 Aug 1950, p.2): organisations including SOBSI, Rukun Tani Indonesia, Front Nasional Pemuda, PRRI and the women's organisation Gerwis formed a counter-committee, Panitya Peringatan Proklamasi Rakjat 17 Agustus 1945, after the government excluded parties from its commemoration committee. T

GA-00463 1958-03-24 Bintang Timur rel A

DPP Gerwani (650.000 anggota): Bubarkan SEATO, Bintang Timur 24 Maret 1958

Gerwani DPP (650,000 members): dissolve SEATO (Bintang Timur, 24 March 1958)

Bintang Timur, 24 March 1958, p. 1 (during the PRRI rebellion). Front-page statement of the Gerwani national leadership (DPP), said to represent 650,000 members, condemning US and SEATO intervention and the US Seventh Fleet's movements, and demanding that SEATO be dissolved ('Bubarkan SEATO'), in an open letter. Same p

GA-00464 1958-03-29 Bintang Timur rel B

Panitia perumus Dewan Nasional, termasuk S.K. Trimurti (golongan Wanita), Bintang Timur 29 Maret 1958

Drafting committee of the National Council, including S.K. Trimurti for the women's group (Bintang Timur, 29 March 1958)

Bintang Timur, 29 March 1958, p. 1. Among PRRI/Sumatra war news, SEATO and Khrushchev becoming Soviet premier, the page lists the members of a Dewan Nasional drafting committee (panitya perumus) on national vigilance against foreign intervention, with S.K. Trimurti named for the 'Wanita' functional group. No Gerwani co

GA-00465 1958-03-31 Bintang Timur rel A

Gerwani Sumatera Tengah: pernyataan menentang pemberontak PRRI, Bintang Timur 31 Maret 1958

Gerwani Central Sumatra: statement against the PRRI rebels (Bintang Timur, 31 March 1958)

Bintang Timur, 31 March 1958, p. 1 (during the PRRI rebellion). Reports a statement by the Gerwani Sumatera Tengah leadership: women and people of Central Sumatra cannot be fooled again by the 'traitors' (PRRI, proclaimed 14 February 1958), stand firmly behind the central government, the army chief and President Sukarn

GA-00467 1958-05-06 Bintang Timur rel A

DPP Gerwani memprotes Pemerintah AS dan Taiwan, Bintang Timur 6 Mei 1958

Gerwani DPP protests to the US and Taiwan governments (Bintang Timur, 6 May 1958)

Bintang Timur, 6 May 1958, p. 1 (after APRI's recapture of West Sumatran towns). Reports the Gerwani DPP's protest to the US and Taiwan governments over their intervention supporting Permesta/PRRI, demanding they stop interference, respect Indonesia's sovereignty and Asia-Africa, and appealing to American women to pres

GA-02578 1965-08-05 rel C

Letter to Edwin L. Fox (Sjafruddin Prawiranegara), 5 Agustus 1965

Letter to Edwin L. Fox from Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, 5 August 1965

US Embassy copy of a 5 August 1965 letter from Sjafruddin Prawiranegara to Edwin Fox defending the US in Vietnam and warning of Chinese and Indonesian communist aggression. Pre-coup anti-communist voice; no Gerwani content.