FBIS-monitored VNA report (16 Sep 1963): the Indonesian parliamentary delegation headed by Deputy Speaker M.H. Lukman (PKI) arrived in Hanoi to a welcome of nearly 3,000 people; DRV leaders spoke of solidarity; Vietnamese and Indonesian women presented bouquets. Gerwani not named; context for PKI-linked parliamentary d
Soviet Woman, 30 Sep 1963, pp. 6-8: delegates' reports on the June 1963 World Congress of Women in Moscow: Fuki Kushida (Japan) on Tereshkova and the congress, Lotte Ulbricht (GDR) on a German peace treaty, Gondo Kikue on 'stitches for peace' banners, and Thamina Salam Adel's testimony on Ba'ath terror in Iraq. Umi Sar
Api Kartini (1964) excerpt from Sukarno's Tavip (17 August 1964) address on landreform: demands implementation of UUPA and the sharecropping law within promised deadlines, endorses Landreform Courts, urges officials to consult peasants, links food self-sufficiency to land reform, and supports abolishing IGO/IGOB and im
Api Kartini (1964) article 'Racism in the Land of Dollars' on discrimination against 19 million African Americans (Birmingham bombing, voting restrictions), condemning also the 10 May 1963 anti-Chinese racist riots in West Java. The page continues with a short piece on a May book fair at Gedung Pemuda and encouraging w
Api Kartini (late 1964) article on Sukarno's 'The Era of Confrontation' speech at the Second Non-Aligned Summit, Cairo (5-10 October 1964), applied to Indonesia: confrontation with Malaysia and with the 'seven village devils' (landlords) in the interest of peasant women. Also carries a Kowani delegation's impressions o
British Commonwealth Relations Office/Foreign Office file (DO 169/516, 1964) on Indonesia and Malaysia. It combines handwritten minutes, an IRD intelligence paper on the PKI (Aidit's December 1963 plenum, Sino-Soviet line, the prospect of PKI power within five years), a brief 'Communists smoothing path to power in Indo
Stencilled lecture text, 'Sedjarah Modern Indonesia' (1964), by Pramoedya Ananta Toer for a literature faculty course (cover bears 'Res Publica'); OCR is very noisy. Introduction (pp. 2-5) defines 'history', 'modern' and 'Indonesia' from a Marxist-nationalist view; later chapters treat Dutch colonial exploitation, assi
JPRS translation (Translations on South and East Asia, 1964) of Suwardiningsih's speech in Harian Rakjat, 14 Jan 1964, p. 3, on the Political Report to the CC PKI's Second Plenary Session. She addresses workers' and peasants' hardship under the 26 May Regulations, work among peasants and fishermen, and revisionism. Fol
Dolgozó Nő, 24 Jan 1964. Travel report by Czechoslovak delegate Mária Brencicová on the 21 Dec 1963 festive session of Kowani in Jakarta, marking 35 years of the unified women's movement and 25 years of Mothers' Day, with Sukarno present. Describes Kowani (40 organisations), poverty, and women's patriotic tasks. Gerwan
Neues Deutschland, 18 February 1964, p. 5. Correspondent Eberhard Pett's press review 'Erfolgreicher Besuch in Indonesien' on the Indonesian press response to Bruno Leuschner's GDR government delegation. Gerwani is not named; the only women's link is that the women's magazine 'Api Kartini' ran an article on 'Women of t
FBIS-monitored Jakarta radio excerpts (9 Mar 1964) of Sukarno's speech to an International Women's Day gathering at the State Palace. He calls Malaysia a neocolonialist project to be 'crushed', cites Khrushchev, thanks Indonesian women for agreeing, and commands them to mobilise via radio and television, convince women
FBIS-monitored Xinhua excerpt (10 Mar 1964) on the four resolutions adopted at the International Women's Day rally in Jakarta addressed by Sukarno: crush 'Malaysia' and aid North Kalimantan; help implement agrarian and crop-sharing laws against food difficulties; resist imperialist cultural infiltration; condemn US agg
Soviet Woman, 31 Mar 1964, issue pages (Portsmouth family exchange, Iranian miniatures, sport, household tips). The only Indonesia item is a short box 'Mother's Day': Mme Malik, wife of the former ambassador, tells Soviet women at a reception that Indonesian women fought for freedom and West Irian, oppose Malaysia, and
Algemeen Dagblad feature by H.N. Appel from Jakarta (1964-04-10) on Indonesia's new elite, its revolutionary rhetoric and economic hardship. Briefly describes women as playing a small, decorative role in a 'men's society', noting Sukarno's second wife Hartini at a party. Gerwani is not mentioned.
FBIS-monitored Jakarta radio report (19 Apr 1964) of a rally welcoming a North Korean Supreme People's Assembly delegation, with speeches by Sudibjo (National Front), Arudji Kartawinata and delegation chair Choe Won-taek, who said two divisions of Korean volunteers would join the anti-Malaysia campaign. The delegation'
Short FBIS item from TASS (8 Jun 1964): the Liaison Bureau Presidium set up at the 1960 Copenhagen women's meeting opened in Moscow (8-12 June) with Eugenie Cotton (WIDF), Popova (Soviet women's committee), and Hurustiati Subandrio, chairman of the Indonesian women's congress (Kowani), among others. Context for Indones
Snippet-only entry (Renmin Ribao, 19 June 1964, p. 4) with only headline and citation: world groups back nine Chinese arrested in Brazil. The record's tag links it to Gerwani through a Gerwani 14th-anniversary rally mentioned in the full text, GA-01932.
Berliner Zeitung, 30 June 1964, p. 2: short BZ/ADN item "DFD wählte Präsidium" on the newly elected DFD federal board and secretariat (chair Ilse Thiele). Its last paragraph says women's delegations from the USSR, Poland, Spain, Cuba, Guinea, Cyprus, Indonesia, Mongolia, Belgium and Greece, who attended the Berlin wome
Soviet Woman, 31 Jul 1964, pp. 2-8: mostly a feature on the Minsk Tractor Works, a Soviet-American women's conference report by Lydia Kislova, and the opening of a Kartini profile, which tells of her 'pingitan' seclusion and quotes Indonesian ambassador Manai Sophiaan on Kartini Day (21 April). Gerwani is not mentioned
FBIS-monitored VNA item (12 Oct 1964): Hanoi meeting where the DRV National Assembly delegation led by Truong Chinh reported on its Indonesian visit, stressing anti-Malaysia solidarity. Bui Thi Cam of the Vietnam Women's Union described the development of the Indonesian women's movement and Indonesian women's sympathy
Neues Deutschland, 17 December 1964, p. 7: full text of the 'Gemeinsame Erklärung' signed in Jakarta on 11 December 1964 at the end of a GDR Volkskammer delegation's visit (30 Nov–12 Dec) led by Johannes Dieckmann. Delegates met Sukarno, ministers and parties; one sentence mentions meetings with 'representatives of the
PKI-press (Jajasan Pembaruan) pamphlet of Sukarno's speech at the 45th anniversary rally of the PKI (23 May 1965), prefaced by a list of his earlier public endorsements of the party. Context for Sukarno–PKI alignment shortly before 1965.
Second, noisier OCR copy of the same US Embassy Djakarta airgram A-300 of 22 October 1965 (Masters), from the Johnson Library country file, 46 pages. Covers Sukarno-PKI offensive, the coup, PKI and Sukarno roles, army prospects. Gerwani is mentioned only as PKI women taunting the generals at Lubang Buaya (p.14) and as
UK Foreign Office file FO 371/180312 (1965), 'Internal political situation, Attempted coup against Sukarno [3]', a volume of Embassy letters and telegrams from Djakarta (Ambassador Gilchrist, S.J.G. Cambridge), February to April 1965. It includes Gilchrist's character notes on Subandrio, Aidit and the generals, the tak
UK Foreign Office file FO 371/180318 (Oct 1965): Djakarta embassy telegrams, minutes and copied US cables on the 30 September affair. Covers the anti-PKI demonstration and burning of PKI HQ, Sukarno's return, Suharto and Nasution, and Anglo-American debate on backing the generals. Only Gerwani-relevant item: the 10 Oct
UK Foreign Office file FO 371/180337 (Mar-Nov 1965): telegrams and letters on US-Indonesian relations: Bunker mission, Peace Corps withdrawal, anti-American demonstrations, Ambassador Green, Palmer affair, then Anglo-American talks on aid to the generals after 1 October. No mention of Gerwani; 'women' appear only among
Audio (9:23) of the Radio Republik Indonesia broadcast of 1 October 1965 announcing the 30 September Movement's 'Dewan Revolusi' (Revolutionary Council), uploaded to the Internet Archive; provenance unverified. Primary source for the coup's opening moments; Gerwani not mentioned in the description.
FBIS-monitored VNA text (11 Jan 1965) of a Nhan Dan review of world solidarity with the NFLSV on its fourth anniversary, with messages from Zhou Enlai, Kim Il Sung, Sihanouk and PKI chair Aidit, and events by WIDF, WFTU, WPC and others. Indonesia appears only briefly: many Indonesian mass organisations held meetings an
De Telegraaf report (1 Feb 1965) on Indonesia's rapprochement with China, quoting Sukarno's CBS interview and Subandrio's Peking visit. Gerwani is not named; Hartini Sukarno is quoted at a women's movement gathering calling for common struggle with "Chinese comrades" in 1965.
Neue Zeit, 4 February 1965, p. 1: lead report "Neue Verbrechen durch Sühne der alten Untaten verhüten!" on the Volkskammer's appeal to the world's parliaments against the statute of limitation for Nazi crimes. Indonesia is a passing mention only: the Indonesian ambassador in Prague, Armunanto, attended, and the house r