Article by Utami Suryadarma, chair of the Film Censorship Committee, reprinted in Varia (17 Jan 1962), explaining the committee's new approach to Western, socialist and Afro-Asian film imports under free-and-active foreign policy.
English anthology of progressive Indonesian poetry, 1955-61 (introduction dated Djakarta, 8 May 1962), from Zaman Baru, Harian Rakjat and Bintang Timur. Its contributor notes state that the poet Sugiarti Siswadi, who visited Romania (1955) and the GDR, USSR and China (1961) with Rukiah Kertapati as LEKRA delegation hea
English anthology of progressive Indonesian poetry, 1955-61 (introduction dated Djakarta, 8 May 1962), from Zaman Baru, Harian Rakjat and Bintang Timur. Its contributor notes state that the poet Sugiarti Siswadi, who visited Romania (1955) and the GDR, USSR and China (1961) with Rukiah Kertapati as LEKRA delegation hea
Scinteia (Bucharest), 15 June 1962 (No. 5560): report on the opening of Romania's National Conference of Women, with Gheorghiu-Dej's speech and Maria Rosetti's report. The list of foreign guests includes the Indonesian women's delegation led by Umi Sardjono, 'president of the women's organisation Gerwani', alongside WI
Front page of Scinteia (Bucharest), 16 Jun 1962, with report on the Romanian National Conference of Women. Names Umi Sardjono, chair of Gerwani, among foreign guests who spoke, alongside delegates from France, GDR, Japan, Poland, Ghana, Hungary and Sudan. The issue says speeches appear on p. 2, but her text is not in t
Scinteia (Bucharest), 16 Jun 1962, text capture of the National Conference of Women proceedings. Lists Umi Sardjono, chair of Gerwani, among foreign speakers (France, GDR, Japan, Poland, Ghana, Hungary, Mali, Yugoslavia, Italy, Vietnam, Korea, Austria). Her own speech is not reproduced. Page 2 greetings from WIDF's Mar
Scinteia (Romanian Workers' Party organ), issue no. 5562, 17 June 1962, with a Claude machine translation of its coverage of the closing of Romania's National Conference of Women. Page 5 prints the greeting of Umi Sardjono, chair of Gerwani, who praises socialist women's achievements, presents Gerwani as fighting for t
Two-page article by O. Ismangil in the magazine Wanita (no. 10, 1963) on women's role in Sukarno's Deklarasi Ekonomi (Dekon), restating the Manipol framework and the priority on food and clothing.
Pravda no. 182, 1 July 1963 (full issue). Page 4 prints the WIDF programme adopted at its Moscow congress (29 June 1963): equal rights, peasant women, children, peace, national independence, solidarity with persecuted women. It lists the new Bureau, which includes Umi Sardjono (Indonesia, spelled 'Umisa Sardjono'). Eug
Pravda no. 182, 1 July 1963 (excerpt). Prints the WIDF programme adopted at its Moscow congress (29 June 1963): equal rights, peasant women, children, peace, national independence, solidarity with persecuted women. Lists new Bureau members, including Umi Sardjono (Indonesia, spelled 'Umisa Sardjono').
Chinese-published pamphlet (Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1963) with statements and a report by Yang Yun-yu attacking Soviet and WIDF leaders at the June 1963 Moscow World Congress of Women over anti-imperialism versus disarmament and peaceful coexistence. It records the Indonesian delegation, led by Umi Sardjono, s
Book by PKI chairman D.N. Aidit (Demos, 1963) collecting his writings on the Indonesian revolution. Beyond the opening chapters, a passage on the Madiun affair (p. 128) records that Mrs Mudigdio and A.M. Tambunan put parliamentary questions on 9 December 1950 about the 1948 killing of Amir Sjarifuddin and ten comrades.
RAND paper P-2690 by Guy J. Pauker (Jan 1963, for Asian Survey), 'Indonesia: Towards Development or Expansionism?'. Surveys the West New Guinea settlement, the lifting of the state of emergency, PKI strength (Aidit versus Lukman factions), inflation, Soviet arms debt and the Brunei revolt. Mentions Gerwani once, as a P
Official history of the Indonesian youth movement (1908-1960) compiled by the Youth Bureau of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Balai Pustaka, Jakarta 1965 (prefaces dated Dec. 1963), in five periods. Gerwani appears only briefly: it is listed among organisations demanding action against the 1957-58 PRRI separatis
Pravda, 1 August 1965 (No. 213), pp. 1-2: TASS communique on the 7-31 July 1965 visit of a PKI delegation led by D.N. Aidit to the USSR, with talks with Brezhnev and Suslov, plus a notice of its departure. Umi Sardjono (Gerwani's leader) is listed as candidate member of the PKI Central Committee in the delegation. Gerw
Pravda, c. 27 October 1965 (No. 300), 'The Situation in Indonesia': two short TASS dispatches from Jakarta dated 26 October. They report Sukarno and Subandrio on the 30 September Movement and ongoing repression of the PKI. Gerwani is mentioned once, among organisations banned by military authorities in North Sulawesi a
Full May 1965 issue of Women of the Whole World (WIDF), a commemorative number for the 20th anniversary of victory over Nazism: women in the resistance, wartime memoirs and Sholokhov's story, Coventry, Leningrad, Warsaw, Lidice-type massacres, Dresden and Hiroshima, plus peace, Vietnam and anticolonial pieces. Indonesi
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
Pravda, 17 November 1965 (No. 321), 'The Situation in Indonesia': TASS dispatches of 16 November on the removal of 62 MPs, a purge operation in Jepara (315 arrests), a curfew in Makassar and a planned army purge. Gerwani is named once, among left-wing organisations (with SOBSI and BTI) banned in the Moluccas by Brig. G
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'
Pravda, 19 February 1967 (No. 50): a short TASS item 'Arrests' (p. 1) citing Sinar Harapan on arrests in Jakarta of PKI figures. It reports that security forces arrested three members of the central leadership of the women's organisation 'Gervani' [Gerwani], along with a PKI CC member. A page 5 item covers the MPRS rej
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
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
RAND memorandum RM-5753-PR (Feb 1969), Guy J. Pauker, 'The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Indonesia'. Argues, from trial records, that Aidit planned the 30 September action against the generals and traces PKI strategy, the Chinese turn, the agrarian 'unilateral actions' and the killings (up to 300,000), and th
Official institutional history, 'Seperempat Abad DPR RI', compiled by the DPR-GR Secretariat for the 25th anniversary in August 1970; it traces parliament from the KNIP to 1970 with membership rosters. For Gerwani it matters in the 1965-66 chapters: it records the NU demand (5 Oct 1965) to ban Gerwani, the 15 Oct 1965
Romanian Communist Party daily Scinteia, catalogued as July 1972 (Nr. 9214) for a report on the sentence in the trial of Suwardiningsih, a PKI Central Committee member. The file's text is a different issue (Nr. 7210, 3 January 1967, Ceausescu's New Year speech); the passage found is only the front-page header and does
Romanian Communist Party daily Scinteia, catalogued as July 1972 (Nr. 9214) for a report on the sentence in the trial of Suwardiningsih, a PKI Central Committee member. The file's text is a different issue (Nr. 7210, 3 January 1967, Ceausescu's New Year speech); the passage found is only the front-page header and does
Unclassified US State Department cable (7 Sep 1977) reporting Amnesty International's list of 62 imprisoned or disappeared former legislators; Indonesia has the longest list (21). Among the Indonesians named are Kartinah Kurdi and 'Umiharti Sardjono' (Umi Sardjono), both former Gerwani leaders, still detained 12 years
Declassified State Department cable (State 207433, 30 Aug 1977) to Embassy Singapore. Prompted by Congressman Koch's challenge, it says research confirms that Dr. Sutanti Aidit was a member of Gerwani's central committee but not of the PKI's, a point the Indonesian embassy also gave, and that earlier correspondence wou
Declassified State Department cable (State 207433, 30 Aug 1977) to Embassy Singapore. Prompted by Congressman Koch's challenge, it says research confirms that Dr. Sutanti Aidit was a member of Gerwani's central committee but not of the PKI's, a point the Indonesian embassy also gave, and that earlier correspondence wou