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3 itemsTopic: PKI ✕Organisation: Central Organisation of Indonesian Socialist Employees ✕Place: Jakarta ✕
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GA-00492 1963-06-01 Algemeen Handelsblad rel B

Communisten in Indonesië: Geïsoleerde positie, ondanks vijf miljoen aanhangers (Komunis di Indonesia: posisi terisolasi meski lima juta pengikut)

Communists in Indonesia: isolated position despite five million followers

Algemeen Handelsblad analysis by a contributor (1963-06-01) on the PKI's isolated position despite about five million followers. It credits the PKI with 1 million members plus 1.5 million in 'the communist women's organisation Gerwani', and discusses food prices, the lifting of the state of siege, SOKSI's rise and West

GA-02592 1965-10-23 rel C

Telegram 1168 to Secretary of State, 23 Oktober 1965

Telegram 1168 to Secretary of State, 23 Oct 1965

US Embassy telegram 1168, 23 Oct 1965: anti-communist unions demand dissolution of the PKI and SOBSI from Labour Minister Sutomo, who hesitates; Army liaison approached. Labour-front context; no Gerwani content.

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