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GA-00573 1966-09-17 Amigoe di Curacao rel B

Nog drie vrouwen (Still three wives)

Still three wives

Brief Amigoe di Curaçao item, 17 Sept 1966, on Sukarno's wives. It states Hartini, his 42-year-old second wife, is a 'leading member' of Gerwani, which was banned after the failed coup. Also recalls Mochtar Lubis's 1957 imprisonment for criticising the marriage. Claim of Hartini's Gerwani leadership is made without evi

GA-00415 1966-09-25 Berita Yudha rel B

Berita Yudha, 25 September 1966 (edisi Minggu)

Berita Yudha, 25 September 1966 (Sunday edition)

Berita Yudha, 25 September 1966 (edisi Minggu). Gossip exposé tied to the Jusuf Muda Dalam corruption trial names Siti Wahjoeni as ex-'commander' of the Palace young women's corps 'Barisan Bhinneka Tunggal Ika'; Gerwani mentioned as comparison.

GA-01672 1966-10-08 Press rel B

Students Demand Trial for Mrs Hartini Sukarno (Press, Christchurch, 8 October 1966)

Students Demand Trial for Mrs Hartini Sukarno (Press, Christchurch, 8 October 1966), photograph clipping

Photograph-only clipping from the Press (Christchurch), 8 Oct 1966: demonstrators with banners and flags in Jakarta, one banner partly legible; illustrates the students' demand to try Hartini Sukarno for patronage of Gerwani. No caption text in this clipping.

GA-00221 1966-10-09 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 9 Oktober 1966 (edisi Mingguan)

Angkatan Bersendjata, 9 October 1966 (Weekly Edition)

Angkatan Bersendjata, 9 Oktober 1966 (edisi Mingguan). Cultural-page polemic against Lekra calls it a 'myth' that 'without Gerwani the women's movement has no meaning'; issue dominated by ABRI's 21st anniversary and the Subandrio trial.

GA-02003 1966-10-17 Sinar Harapan rel B

Sinar Harapan, 17 Oktober 1966 (butir tanggal 18 Oktober)

Sinar Harapan, 17 Oct 1966: ex-PKI/Gerwani members at Kayuagung (edge item)

Sinar Harapan, 17 Oktober 1966 (butir tanggal 18 Oktober). The keyword hit is an Antara item visible at the scan's edge from the next day's issue: 'former PKI/Gerwani members' at Kayuagung (South Sumatra) made to burn communist books.

GA-02004 1966-10-18 Sinar Harapan rel B

Sinar Harapan, 18 Oktober 1966: 'Buku2 komunis dibakar'

Sinar Harapan, 18 Oct 1966: Communist books burned

Sinar Harapan, 18 Oktober 1966: 'Buku2 komunis dibakar'. Antara item: in Kayuagung (South Sumatra) 'ex-PKI/Gerwani' members burned communist and Marxist literature seized in a military raid before the regency authorities.

GA-00224 1966-10-24 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 24 Oktober 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 24 October 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 24 Oktober 1966. Report of PKI Politburo member Sakirman's arrest in Solo alleging a secret plan to mobilise ex-PKI/PR/Gerwani, especially released detainees.

GA-02005 1966-10-24 Sinar Harapan rel B

Sinar Harapan, 24 Oktober 1966

Sinar Harapan, 24 Oct 1966: arrest of PKI Politburo member Sakirman in Solo

Sinar Harapan, 24 Oktober 1966. Report on the arrest of PKI Politburo member Sakirman in Solo alleging a secret plan to remobilise ex-PKI/PR/Gerwani, especially released detainees.

GA-00425 1966-10-27 Berita Yudha rel B

Berita Yudha, 27 Oktober 1966

Berita Yudha, 27 October 1966

Berita Yudha, 27 Oktober 1966. Arrest in Mampang of Krukut PKI chair Dadiwinata after a year in hiding; confession alleges in Aug 1965 PKI, PR and Gerwani figures prepared for action.

GA-00225 1966-10-29 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 29 Oktober 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 29 October 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 29 Oktober 1966. Satirical column where a visitor must declare whether he took part in 'Lubang Buaya training'; the mention of Gerwani reflects the pervasive loyalty-screening culture.

GA-00426 1966-10-29 Berita Yudha rel B

Berita Yudha, 29 Oktober 1966: 'Tahanan G 30 S/PKI di Tangerang'

Berita Yudha, 29 October 1966: G30S/PKI detainees in Tangerang

Berita Yudha, 29 Oktober 1966: 'Tahanan G 30 S/PKI di Tangerang'. Interview with Tangerang police chief: 880 G30S/PKI detainees in Tangerang; Gerwani activity there had 'almost not existed and found no market'.

GA-02006 1966-11-04 Sinar Harapan rel B

Sinar Harapan, 4 November 1966: '3 Gembong Gestapu dibekuk'

Sinar Harapan, 4 Nov 1966: '3 Gestapu ringleaders seized'

Sinar Harapan, 4 November 1966: '3 Gembong Gestapu dibekuk'. Antara item: the Gerwani chair for South Bengkulu (name omitted), a PKI sub-section secretary and a BTI member captured after fleeing into the forest.

GA-02007 1966-11-05 Sinar Harapan rel B

Sinar Harapan, 5 November 1966: ringkasan vonis Mahmillub Subandrio (VI)

Sinar Harapan, 5 Nov 1966: digest of the Subandrio Mahmillub verdict (VI)

Sinar Harapan, 5 November 1966: ringkasan vonis Mahmillub Subandrio (VI). Serial digest of the Subandrio verdict: the court finds AURI personnel trained Pemuda Rakyat, CGMI and Gerwani as a 'militant PKI mass', and Subandrio did nothing though informed.

GA-00226 1966-11-06 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 6 November 1966 (edisi Mingguan)

Angkatan Bersendjata, 6 November 1966 (Weekly Edition)

Angkatan Bersendjata, 6 November 1966 (edisi Mingguan). Preview of Omar Dhani's Mahmillub trial lists as evidence his order to provide facilities for the training of Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani 'volunteers' at Halim.

GA-02008 1966-11-06 Sinar Harapan rel B

Sinar Harapan, 6 November 1966 (edisi Minggu)

Sinar Harapan, 6 Nov 1966: customs purge expose; official's wife a 'Gerwani ringleader'

Sinar Harapan, 6 November 1966 (edisi Minggu). Exposé demanding a deeper purge of Customs; customs inspector Heru Basoeki was arrested with 'his wife, a Gerwani ringleader', yet reinstated and posted to Tanjung Pinang.

GA-00227 1966-11-24 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 24 November 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 24 November 1966. PAB report of the detention in Riau of a couple, Anas and Jusmaniar, 'ex-PKI/Gerwani ringleaders' of Sawahlunto/Sijunjung, trailed by a KAPPI student.

GA-02012 1966-12-17 Sinar Harapan rel B

Sinar Harapan, 17 Desember 1966

Sinar Harapan, 17 Dec 1966: Dharsono at KAMI Puteri Mother's Day commemoration

Sinar Harapan, 17 Desember 1966. Dharsono at a KAMI Puteri Hari Ibu commemoration says 'Gerwani/Gestapu/PKI' honoured heroes only as a mask; a second Gerwani hit in a serialised verdict digest.

GA-00230 1967-01-25 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 25 Januari 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 25 January 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 25 Januari 1967. One-line brief that detainees in Metro, Central Lampung, including Gerwani, held Idulfitri prayers together under the local commander; also Kodam Jaya arrests.

GA-00231 1967-02-13 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 13 Februari 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 13 February 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 13 Februari 1967. Issue on the DPR-GR resolution and memorandum (9 Feb 1967) on Sukarno's accountability for G30S/PKI; Gerwani mentioned in an inner-page item.

GA-00292 1967-04-03 The Canberra Times rel B

A fighting editor: Jogjakarta (Canberra Times, 3 April 1967)

A Fighting Editor: Jogjakarta (Canberra Times, 3 April 1967)

Canberra Times, 3 Apr 1967, p. 2: Creighton Burns profiles Jussac Margo Rahardjo, editor of Pelopor Jogja, a former Radio Australia announcer turned anti-Communist propagandist. In 1965 local authorities, he says, used Gerwani, which then controlled the Jogjakarta federation of women's associations, as 'the lever' to p

GA-00293 1967-04-03 The Canberra Times rel B

A fighting editor: Jogjakarta (Canberra Times, 3 April 1967)

A Fighting Editor: Jogjakarta (Canberra Times, 3 April 1967), duplicate

Canberra Times, 3 Apr 1967, p. 2: Creighton Burns profiles Jussac Margo Rahardjo, editor of Pelopor Jogja, a former Radio Australia announcer turned anti-Communist propagandist. In 1965 local authorities, he says, used Gerwani, which then controlled the Jogjakarta federation of women's associations, as 'the lever' to p

GA-00235 1967-07-12 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 12 Juli 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 12 July 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 12 Juli 1967. Report on the 11th session of Sudisman's Mahmillub trial (witnesses Karel Supit and Sardjono); Gerwani mentioned on p. 3 as the court was to hear further witnesses.

GA-00239 1967-10-16 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 16 Oktober 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 16 October 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 16 Oktober 1967. Antara report: 25 ex-PKI arrested in Banyuwangi for underground activity and spreading a Sukarno cult, including 'P.S, a former Gerwani member' and a Chinese courier.

GA-03470 1967-12 Tricontinental Bulletin, no. 21 (Havana) rel B

Tricontinental Bulletin, no. 21 (December 1967): issue catalogued for Indonesian political prisoners incl. Sutanti Aidit

Tricontinental Bulletin no. 21 (Havana, Dec 1967): denunciation of Suharto regime and death sentences

Tricontinental Bulletin no. 21 (Havana, December 1967), organ of OSPAAAL. A passage denouncing the Suharto-Nasution regime says thousands of men and women suffer torture in Indonesian prisons and names those sentenced to death: Njono, Sudisman, Sakirman, Rewang, Latief, Sujono, 'Sutanti, Aidit', Omar Dani. The printed

GA-03471 1967-12 Tricontinental Bulletin, no. 21 (Havana) rel B

Tricontinental Bulletin, no. 21 (December 1967): issue catalogued for Indonesian political prisoners incl. Sutanti Aidit

Tricontinental Bulletin no. 21 (Havana, Dec 1967): denunciation of Suharto regime and death sentences

Tricontinental Bulletin no. 21 (Havana, December 1967), organ of OSPAAAL. A passage denouncing the Suharto-Nasution regime says thousands of men and women suffer torture in Indonesian prisons and names those sentenced to death: Njono, Sudisman, Sakirman, Rewang, Latief, Sujono, 'Sutanti, Aidit', Omar Dani. The printed

GA-00241 1967-12-05 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 5 Desember 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 5 December 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 5 Desember 1967. Follow-up on 'Operasi Tjakra': 750 arrested in North Sumatra including ex-PKI, PR, Chinese nationals and Gerwani; a Gerwani fugitive from Lubuk Pakam caught on a plantation.

GA-03036 1968 rel B licensed

The Politico-Military Role of the Indonesian Armed Forces, October 1965–1968 (MA dissertation, University of Chicago)

The Politico-Military Role of the Indonesian Armed Forces, October 1965-1968 (Fox, 1968)

Edward J. Fox, University of Chicago MA dissertation (1968; the catalogue title says PhD) on the Indonesian armed forces' control programme and the pattern of violence from October 1965 to early 1968. Gerwani appears only in passing: a footnote cites 1.75 million members and notes its self-dissolution (p.32), and one u

GA-03708 1968 Review of Indonesian and Malayan Affairs, vols 1-2 (1967-1968) rel B

Review of Indonesian and Malayan Affairs, vols 1-2 (1967-68), p. 271: the Yap Thiam Hien affair and Trees Sunito

Review of Indonesian and Malayan Affairs, 1967-68, p. 271: the Yap Thiam Hien affair and Trees Sunito

Page 271 of the Sydney-published Review of Indonesian and Malayan Affairs (vols 1-2, 1967-68), on the arrest and release of lawyer Yap Thiam Hien. It reports Djohan Arifin's claim that the Mahmillub trials had been infiltrated by the 'FKI', referring to Trees Sunito (Njono's defence counsel) and Yap, which Mahmillub ch

GA-01066 1968-01-05 Het Parool rel B

Huisbrandolie wordt 1,5 cent duurder (met AP-bericht over de arrestatie van Trees Soenito)

Heating oil 1.5 cents dearer (with AP report on the arrest of Trees Soenito)

Het Parool item (5 Jan 1968) in a page of unrelated news (heating oil prices). The AP paragraph reports Jakarta police arrested Dutch-born lawyer Trees Soenito, former defender of PKI's Njono, who according to the armed forces daily is suspected of communist sympathies and 'would have been a former leader of Gerwani'.

GA-01078 1968-01-05 Het Rotterdamsch Parool rel B

Djakarta, vrijdag (AP): arrestatie van Trees Soenito

Jakarta, Friday (AP): arrest of Trees Soenito

One-paragraph AP wire item in Het Rotterdamsch Parool (5 Jan 1968, p.1): Jakarta police arrested Dutch-born lawyer Trees Soenito, earlier defender of PKI's Njono. According to the armed forces daily she is suspected of communist sympathies and 'would have been a former leader of Gerwani'. Allegation only; no other deta