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GA-01929 1964-03-19 Renmin Ribao rel A licensed

Renmin Ribao, 19 Maret 1964: Indonesia melancarkan gerakan ganyang 'Malaysia' (坚决反击美帝国主义支持的新殖民主义计划)

Indonesia launches 'smash Malaysia' movement: Umi Sardjono for women (snippet)

Snippet-only Renmin Ribao extract (19 Mar 1964, p. 3) on Indonesia's campaign to 'smash Malaysia'. It quotes Umi Sardjono, speaking for women and as a Gerwani leader, saying Indonesian women fully support Sukarno's order to launch a volunteers' movement; truncated. Full text is GA-01930.

GA-01930 1964-03-19 Renmin Ribao rel A licensed

Renmin Ribao, 19 Maret 1964: Indonesia melancarkan gerakan ganyang 'Malaysia' (坚决反击美帝国主义支持的新殖民主义计划)

Indonesia launches 'smash Malaysia' movement: Sukarno, Aidit and women's support

Xinhua dispatches in Renmin Ribao (19 Mar 1964, p. 3) on Indonesia's 'smash Malaysia' campaign: Sukarno orders the armed forces to contribute, Aidit swears in Pemuda Rakyat volunteers, and DPR-GR members back the President. Umi Sardjono, representing women and a Gerwani leader, pledges that Indonesian women will carry

GA-02111 1965 Pravda rel B

Pravda, 1965, no. 213 (Delegasi PKI di Uni Soviet, Juli 1965)

Pravda, 1965: PKI delegation in the USSR, July 1965 (excerpt)

Pravda no. 213, 1965 (excerpt; issue likely 1 August). Official communique on a PKI delegation's stay in the USSR, 7-31 July 1965: Aidit (head), Karel Supit, Ruslan Kamaluddin, Nungtjik A.R., candidate CC member Umi Sardjono, and an Aliarcham Academy representative; visits to Uzbekistan and Moscow, talks with Brezhnev'

GA-02570 1965 rel B licensed

Indonesia: Political parties and communism (FO 371/180326, February-August 1965)

FO 371/180326: Political Parties and Communism (Feb-Aug 1965)

UK Foreign Office file FO 371/180326 (Feb-Aug 1965): embassy telegrams, letters and Antara extracts on the PKI's growth before the coup: its 45th anniversary, Aidit's speeches, Mao's greeting, Sino-Soviet positions and Sukarno's leftward drift. Gerwani items: Antara of 9 June reports Sukarno addressing Gerwani, chaired

GA-02503 1965-04-06 rel A licensed

Foreign Volunteers Pledge Readiness to Fight (FBIS, 6 Apr 1965)

FBIS-monitored VNA Domestic Service text (6 Apr 1965) on tens of thousands of Korean, Indonesian, Venezuelan, Indian and Japanese volunteers for South Vietnam. Key Indonesian item: on 4 April about 100 women volunteers led by Mrs Umi Sardjono, president of the Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani), went to the DRV Emba

GA-02504 1965-04-08 rel A licensed

Umi Sardjono Leads Women Volunteers to DRV Embassy (FBIS Daily Report, 8 Apr 1965, HathiTrust scan)

Umi Sardjono Leads Women Volunteers to DRV Embassy (FBIS, 8 Apr 1965)

FBIS Daily Report page (8 Apr 1965; HathiTrust scan p.251, North Vietnam section): continuation of the VNA volunteer report. Contains the passage that about 100 women volunteers led by Mrs Umi Sardjono, president of the Indonesian Women's Movement, went to the DRV Embassy and NFLSV office on 4 April, including wives of

GA-02133 1965-07 Scinteia rel A

Scînteia Nr. 6683, 18 Juli 1965: Delegasi PKI tiba untuk Kongres IV PMR

Scinteia, 18 Jul 1965: PKI delegation arrives for 4th Congress of the Romanian Workers' Party

Scinteia (Bucharest), 18 Jul 1965, p. 1: report on arrival of the PKI delegation for the 4th Congress of the Romanian Workers' Party. Delegation: D.N. Aidit (head), Karel Supit, Umi Sardjono (PKI CC alternate member, Gerwani chair) and Anwar Dharma of Harian Rakjat; met by Ceausescu. Setiati Surasto, named in the metad

GA-02519 1965-10-27 rel A licensed

Anti-Gestapu Demonstration (FBIS, 27 Oct 1965)

FBIS-monitored ANTARA report (27 Oct 1965) on a demonstration by the Action Coordinating Body to Crush the 30 September Movement at the Foreign and Home Affairs departments, demanding dissolution of the PKI and sister organisations, purges of subdistricts and the Labour Ministry, and regretting China's attitude on the

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-03596 1990-04-21 Tempo (weekly), 21 April 1990 rel A licensed

Dari politik ke kebatinan (S.K. Trimurti)

From politics to mysticism: S.K. Trimurti in her own words (Tempo, 21 Apr 1990)

Tempo profile (21 April 1990), in S.K. Trimurti's own first-person voice, of her life from teacher and Partindo cadre to labour minister and spiritualist. She says she co-founded Gerwis around 1950 (Ketua III, Yogyakarta), that Gerwis became Gerwani at its third congress under Umi Sardjono, and that in 1965 she quit Ge

GA-03005 2019 rel B

Perempuan dalam Pemilu Pertama (Historia, 2019)

Women in the first election (Historia, 2019)

Historia article (2019) on women's wings of parties in the 1955 election (Perwamu, Parkiwa, Wanita Demokrat, Aisyiyah, Bhayangkari), noting the PKI grew close to Gerwani and that Mudigdio and Umi Sardjono entered the DPR for the PKI. Context on Gerwani and elections.

GA-03045 2020 rel C licensed

Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam and Marxism in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia, 1915-1959

Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam and Marxism in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia, 1915-1959 (Lin, 2020)

PhD dissertation (History, University of Washington, 2020) by Hongxuan Lin tracing the confluence of Islam and Marxism in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia, 1915-1959, through vernacular print culture; it genealogises Sukarno's NASAKOM. Gerwani appears only briefly: citing Blackburn, it says millions joined for

GA-02288 2021-09-29 Tempo rel A licensed

Organisasi-Organisasi yang Dianggap Berafiliasi dengan PKI

Tempo.co, 29 September 2021: Organisations considered affiliated with the PKI

Tempo.co explainer (29 Sept 2021) on organisations 'considered affiliated' with the PKI: Gerwani, Lekra, SOBSI, Pemuda Rakjat. It states, citing Wieringa, that Gerwis became Gerwani at its 1954 second congress, electing PKI member Umi Sardjono as chair. Short, background-level.