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GA-01702 1965-12-15 Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata, Intisari Berita, 15 Desember 1965

Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 15 December 1965: arrest roundup and four 'shot dead for fleeing'

Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 15 Desember 1965. Arrest round-up noting 'a Gerwani' among 61 arrested by Kodam Diponegoro and among 10 by Kodam Brawijaya, with four 'shot dead for fleeing'.

GA-02635 1965-12-16 rel B

Hysni Kapo to the Chinese ambassador on aid to Indonesian comrades and students, 16 December 1965

Hysni Kapo to the Chinese Ambassador on Aid to Indonesian Comrades and Students, 16 Dec 1965

Record of Hysni Kapo (Albanian Party of Labour) to the Chinese ambassador, 16 Dec 1965 (Albanian original, scanned; only this item is in the file). After reporting on Polish Marxist-Leninists, Kapo says Indonesian comrades asked about Indonesian students in 'revisionist' countries; Albania offers to host communist stud

GA-02636 1965-12-16 rel C

Notes of meeting between Hysni Kapo and Chinese Ambassador Xu Jianguo, 16 December 1965

Notes of Meeting between Hysni Kapo and Chinese Ambassador Xu Jianguo, 16 Dec 1965

English text of the Wilson Center Digital Archive item: notes by Albanian Party of Labour secretary Hysni Kapo of his meeting with Chinese ambassador Xu Jianguo, 16 Dec 1965 (translated by Elidor Mehilli). Mostly on Polish Marxist-Leninists; one passage offers to host Indonesian communist students and the PKI's Europe

GA-02637 1965-12-16 rel C

Excerpt from a conversation between Zhou Enlai and Albanian Party leaders, 27 June 1966

Excerpt from Zhou Enlai's Conversation with Albanian Leaders, 27 June 1966

Excerpt (pp. 80-102 of 130) of Zhou Enlai's conversation with Enver Hoxha, Mehmet Shehu and other Albanian leaders, 27 June 1966 (Wilson Center Digital Archive; trans. Elidor Mehilli). Mostly on the Cultural Revolution, revisionism, Romania, Korea and Vietnam. One passage says Aidit, Njoto and Lukman are dead, Sudisman

GA-02638 1965-12-16 rel C

Garajszki report on Hungarian-Korean solidarity meeting and DPRK views of the PKI, 14 November 1967

Garajszki Report on Hungarian-Korean Solidarity Meeting and DPRK Views of the PKI, 14 Nov 1967

Hungarian Foreign Ministry information report by Istvan Garajszki, 14 Nov 1967, on Hungarian-Korean solidarity meetings (Wilson Center Digital Archive; trans. Balazs Szalontai). A North Korean embassy secretary, Choe Guk-hyeon, says the PKI erred by exposing all its leaders and members and by relying on Sukarno after t

GA-02649 1965-12-16 rel C

Record of conversation between N.S. Khrushchev and Sukarno, 9 June 1961

Conversation between Khrushchev and Sukarno, 9 June 1961

Soviet record (top secret) of Khrushchev's 9 June 1961 conversation with Sukarno, translated by Angela Greenfield (Wilson Center). Khrushchev warns of US intelligence ties to rebels and army officers; Sukarno discusses banned parties, Nasakom, his backing for the PKI and consultation with Aidit, and distrust of Subandr

GA-01676 1965-12-17 Haugesunds Avis rel A

Indonesia, et nytt Vietnam? (Haugesunds Avis, 17. desember 1965, s. 8)

Indonesia, a new Vietnam? (Haugesunds Avis, 17 December 1965)

Haugesunds Avis (Norway), 17 Dec 1965, p. 8 (page image): Albert Henrik Mohn's Jakarta article 'Indonesia, a new Vietnam?' on PKI history, Aidit's rise and party growth to 3 million. It names PKI mass organisations (SOBSI, peasant front, Pemuda Rakyat, and the women's organisation Gerwani with about 1.5 million members

GA-01677 1965-12-17 Haugesunds Avis rel A

Indonesia, et nytt Vietnam? (Haugesunds Avis, 17. desember 1965, s. 8)

Indonesia, a new Vietnam? (Haugesunds Avis, 17 December 1965), OCR text

Haugesunds Avis (Norway), 17 Dec 1965, p. 8 (OCR text): Albert Henrik Mohn's Jakarta article 'Indonesia, a new Vietnam?' on PKI history, Aidit's rise and party growth to 3 million. It names PKI mass organisations (SOBSI, peasant front, Pemuda Rakyat, and the women's organisation Gerwani with about 1.5 million members)

GA-02531 1965-12-17 rel C licensed

President Speaks to Women's Association

President Speaks to Women's Association (FBIS, 17 Dec 1965)

FBIS item (Jakarta radio, 17 Dec 1965) on Sukarno's speech at Perwari's 20th anniversary rally. He stressed ideas and Pantjasila, and the need for men and women together. Chaerul Saleh urged care for children of Gestapu victims or participants. Minister Rusiah Sardjono pledged Perwari loyalty. Gerwani is not named; the

GA-02532 1965-12-17 rel C licensed

Speech to Women's Group (Sukarno at Perwari anniversary)

Speech to Women's Group: Sukarno at Perwari Anniversary (FBIS, 17 Dec 1965)

FBIS summary of Sukarno's 17 Dec 1965 speech at the Perwari anniversary rally. He praised West Irian volunteer Herlina, discussed ideas and 'progressive' versus 'retrogressive' revolutionaries, and defended Nasakom. He ordered a tribunal for those directly involved in Gestok and said those responsible for killing innoc

GA-02588 1965-12-17 rel A

Airgram A-398: daftar pimpinan PKI dan keberadaan pimpinan, 17 Desember 1965

Airgram A-398: List of PKI Leaders and Their Whereabouts, 17 Dec 1965

US Embassy airgram A-398, 17 Dec 1965, listing PKI leadership bodies after May 1965 and fugitive leaders' whereabouts. Places Suharti (Gerwani chair, head of the PKI women's department), Umi Sardjono, Setiati Surasto and Mudjiatun in PKI organs; no women in the whereabouts list.

GA-01703 1965-12-18 Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata, Intisari Berita, 18 Desember 1965

Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 18 December 1965: KKO tour of Cilacap and fleeing villagers

Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 18 Desember 1965. Last instalment of a KKO tour of Cilacap: fleeing 'PKI/Gestapu, BTI, Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani' are driven by warning fire and a young woman cries 'I'm not Gerwani, I'm a Marhaen woman', told as a 'touching joke'.

GA-00318 1965-12-20 The Townsville Daily Bulletin rel B

Sukarno threatens 'deviators' (Townsville Daily Bulletin, 20 Desember 1965)

Sukarno threatens 'deviators'

Townsville Daily Bulletin, 20 Dec 1965, p. 1 (AAP-Reuter): speaking to a gathering of the Indonesian Women's Association, Sukarno says those who deviate from the revolution will be shot and that an extraordinary military tribunal will try coup participants. Reports arrests of supporters in Central Java, South Borneo (3

GA-02601 1965-12-21 rel C

Airgram A-408: Joint Weeka no. 48, 21 Desember 1965

Airgram A-408: Joint Weeka no. 48, 21 Dec 1965

US Embassy Joint Weeka no. 48 (airgram A-408), 21 Dec 1965: estimates 100,000 PKI deaths and 10,000 on Bali; notes Sukarno addressing the 20th anniversary of Perwari. Only women-related scene is a non-communist women's group used as a stage.

GA-01704 1965-12-22 Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata, Intisari Berita, 22 Desember 1965 (Hari Ibu)

Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 22 December 1965 (Hari Ibu): four more Gerwani girls arrested

Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 22 Desember 1965 (Hari Ibu). 'Komdak VII Djaya ringkus 4 Gerwani lagi': four Gerwani girls aged 14–27 whose 'confession' describes recruitment by a neighbourhood head, firearms training at Lubang Buaya in July 1965, a public-kitchen night and witnessing the torture of bound peo

GA-02405 1965-12-22 rel B licensed

US Embassy Djakarta, Joint Sitrep No. 68, Telegram 1842 (22 Desember 1965)

US Embassy Djakarta, Joint Sitrep No. 68, Telegram 1842 (22 December 1965)

US Embassy Djakarta telegram 1842, Joint Sitrep No. 68 (22 Dec 1965, Secret, sanitized, OCR rough). Reports Sukarno's speeches defending the PKI, including a Mother's Day gathering where he defended the PKI's women's affiliate (Gerwani), Nasution's 'basic guide' for crushing the PKI, the PNI purge, anti-Chinese violenc

GA-02751 1965-68 rel C

Film Dokumenter 1965-1968, Korban Kebiadaban G30S-PKI (rekaman bisu)

Documentary Film 1965-1968, Victims of the Barbarity of G30S-PKI (Silent Footage)

Anonymous silent black-and-white documentary footage (30:51), 1965-68, uploaded to the Internet Archive in 2023, titled 'Victims of the barbarity of G30S-PKI'. Frames show army officers, mourners at funerals of the murdered generals (caption 'Mitze Farre, sister of Pierre Tandean') and soldiers searching a 'PKI member'