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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-00220 1966-10-04 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 4 Oktober 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 4 October 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 4 Oktober 1966. Front-page item: a women's action front states that the 'barbarous acts of Gerwani/PKI at Lubang Buaya' do not spring from the character of Indonesian women, distancing 'true' women from Gerwani.

GA-00417 1966-10-04 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 4 Oktober 1966

Berita Yudha, 4 October 1966

Berita Yudha, 4 Oktober 1966. Report of a rally of some 3,500 women of KOWANI, KAWI and BPOW at Lubang Buaya (3 Oct) where, led by Ibu Tien Soeharto, they swore to 'eradicate the gerwani/pki mentality'; Ibu Soeharto says they 'practised obscenities without limit'.

GA-00418 1966-10-05 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 5 Oktober 1966: wawancara Ibu Tien Soeharto

Berita Yudha, 5 October 1966: interview with Ibu Tien Soeharto

Berita Yudha, 5 Oktober 1966: wawancara Ibu Tien Soeharto. Armed Forces Day issue with a front-page interview with Ibu Tien Soeharto, 'May our children not inherit the barbarity and immorality of Gerwani', and Perwari conferring 'Penyelamat Revolusi' on Suharto.

GA-00419 1966-10-07 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 7 Oktober 1966

Berita Yudha, 7 October 1966

Berita Yudha, 7 Oktober 1966. KAWI (anti-communist women's action front) issues a four-point statement: Gerwani/PKI 'barbaric acts' do not stem from Indonesian women's character, the 'gerwani/pki mentality' must be eradicated, and West Sumatra should revoke a title.

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-02774 1967 rel A licensed

Surat Betka Papanek kepada Nani Suwondo, 15 Maret 1967

Letter from Betka Papanek to Nani Suwondo, 15 March 1967

Letter dated 15 March 1967 from Betka Papanek to Mrs Nani Suwondo, Djalan Pasar Minggu 39, Jakarta, apparently about a conference. OCR is almost entirely unreadable, so content beyond the address, date and a mention of a conference cannot be confirmed; summary rests on title and legible fragments. Nani Suwondo was a wo

GA-00233 1967-04-27 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 27 April 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 27 April 1967. South Kalimantan governor Aberani Sulaiman says mothers must 'eradicate women of the Gerwani type, the Lubang Buaya type' to realise 'true Indonesian women'; KOWANI Kartini meeting.

GA-02161 1967-04-30 Soviet Woman rel C licensed

Soviet Woman, 30 April 1967: 'Kartini Day' (Manai Sophiaan dan A. Belenky)

Soviet Woman, 30 Apr 1967: 'Kartini Day' (Manai Sophiaan and A. Belenky)

Soviet Woman, 30 Apr 1967, pp. 13-16: Kartini Day features by Mme Manai Sophiaan (ambassador's wife) and Soviet orientalist A. Belenky on Kartini as feminist, anti-colonial forerunner of the national movement, plus a book review on American women and a note on Soviet-Indonesian women's correspondence. Gerwani and 1965

GA-02162 1967-04-30 Soviet Woman rel C licensed

Soviet Woman, 30 April 1967: 'Our Indonesian Friends Write'

Soviet Woman, 30 Apr 1967: 'Our Indonesian Friends Write'

Soviet Woman, 30 Apr 1967: Nina Voronina's 'Our Indonesian friends write' describes correspondence between the Soviet Women's Committee and Indonesian women (Asih Budi society in Bandung, journalist Sakti Alamsjah, pharmacist Salamah Adipura, Tulungagung teachers' club). Mentions Indonesia only through Kowani-era conta

GA-00234 1967-07-09 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 9 Juli 1967 (edisi Mingguan)

Angkatan Bersendjata, 9 July 1967 (Weekly Edition)

Angkatan Bersendjata, 9 Juli 1967 (edisi Mingguan). Family column 'Jadilah seorang wanita yang baik' defines womanhood through motherhood and invokes 'how savage and cruel Gerwani women' were in torturing the generals, using the slander as a moral counterexample.

GA-02860 1968 rel C licensed

The Political Role of Southeast Asian Women (Amara Raksasataya, 1968)

The Political Role of Southeast Asian Women (Raksasataya, 1968)

Chapter 'The Political Role of Southeast Asian Women' by Amara Raksasataya in The Annals of the American Academy (Jan. 1968, 'Women Around the World'). Surveys Burma, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam: equal legal rights but modest office-holding; Thailand as case study of indirect influence. For

GA-02163 1968-06-30 Soviet Woman rel C licensed

Soviet Woman, 30 Juni 1968: 'Meetings. Contacts' (peringatan Kartini di Moskow)

Soviet Woman, 30 Jun 1968: 'Meetings. Contacts', Kartini commemoration in Moscow

Soviet Woman, 30 Jun 1968, pp. 17-20, 'Meetings. Contacts' section: friendship-society news. Includes a Kartini memorial gathering in Moscow by the USSR-Indonesia Society and Soviet Women's Committee, with Raisa Smirnova and ambassador's wife Mrs Maramis. Other items: Paul Robeson's 70th birthday, Nouruz, Peter Pan, US

GA-00246 1968-08-21 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 21 Agustus 1968: 'PKI eksploitir wanita2'

Angkatan Bersendjata, 21 August 1968: 'PKI Exploits Women'

Angkatan Bersendjata, 21 Agustus 1968: 'PKI eksploitir wanita2'. Part X of the 'Blitar Selatan' serial on Operasi Trisula: a 'love story' about a 'Red Women's Detachment' and profiles of three women arrested in South Blitar as 'tools of the PKI'.

GA-02798 1969 rel C licensed

WIDF, Activities of the Women's International Democratic Federation, 1964-1969 (appendix)

WIDF Activities 1964-1969 (appendix to Sixth Congress report)

Chronological appendix (1969) to the WIDF activity report for the Sixth Congress, listing 1964-69 activities: Viet Nam and Middle East solidarity, peace and disarmament meetings, women's rights seminars, rights of the child, attendance at national congresses, Bureau and Council meetings, UN agency work and publications

GA-02333 1969-01-11 Daily World rel C licensed

Women's political rights worldwide, including Indonesia illiteracy figures

Daily World, 11 January 1969: Women's political rights worldwide

Daily World, 11 Jan 1969, p. M-5: feature on women's political rights worldwide, covering suffrage dates, education and the work-family dilemma. Indonesia appears only in passing, with the figure that some years earlier 42% of Indonesian men and 70% of women were illiterate, and as a country granting women equal status

GA-01502 1969-01-14 Ottawa Citizen rel C licensed

Embassy tea for 40th anniversary of the Indonesian Women's Movement (Ottawa Citizen, 14 Januari 1969)

Embassy tea for 40th anniversary of the Indonesian Women's Movement (Ottawa Citizen, 14 January 1969)

Ottawa Citizen, 14 Jan 1969, p.31 (women's page): a one-paragraph social note that Mrs. I. Darmo Bandoro will host a tea at the Indonesian embassy residence on 21 Jan 1969 for the 40th anniversary of the Indonesian Women's Movement. The rest of the page is unrelated social and advertising copy. Gerwani is not mentioned

GA-00255 1969-03-07 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 7 Maret 1969

Angkatan Bersendjata, 7 March 1969

Angkatan Bersendjata, 7 Maret 1969. 'Pos Piket' column on the arrest of 'Gerwani ringleader Nj. Suwarti' in Priok as a Qur'an teacher, veiled and under a new name; Ibu Tien Soeharto's remarks on women.

GA-03348 1970-12-31 The Straits Times rel B

Rape case may fully restore rule of law (Hugh Mabbett on the Sum Kuning case)

Rape case may fully restore rule of law: the Sum Kuning case (Hugh Mabbett, Straits Times, 1970)

The Straits Times, 31 December 1970, p. 10, by Hugh Mabbett: Yogyakarta court acquits 17-year-old egg seller Sum Kuning (Sumarijem), who reported rape by youths from powerful families and was charged with a false report. Police tortured a noodle seller, Trimo, and threatened her with electric torture and an accusation

GA-01503 1971-12-17 Ottawa Citizen rel C licensed

Embassy coffee morning to commemorate the Indonesian Women's Movement (Ottawa Citizen, 17 Desember 1971)

Embassy coffee morning to commemorate the Indonesian Women's Movement (Ottawa Citizen, 17 December 1971)

Ottawa Citizen, 17 Dec 1971, p.31 (women's page): a short social note that Mrs. I. Darmo Bandoro will hold a coffee morning on Wednesday 29 Dec at 11 a.m. at the Indonesian embassy to commemorate the Indonesian Women's Movement (the Mother's Day anniversary). The remainder is unrelated (toy torture kits, Christmas safe

GA-01489 1972-08-16 Edmonton Journal rel C licensed

Women's studies column, with note on Indonesian women's movement and polygamy (Edmonton Journal, 16 Agustus 1972)

Women's studies column, with note on Indonesian women's movement and polygamy (Edmonton Journal, 1972)

Edmonton Journal, 16 Aug 1972, p.20: a column on Women's Studies reviewing the essay collection Woman in Sexist Society. A short passage on non-Western women's status notes that Indonesian women's active economic role, and that the Indonesian women's movement's major goals were abolition of polygamy and divorce by repu

GA-01544 1974 Vashti's Voice rel B licensed

Vashti's Voice, Women's Liberation Newspaper, Issues 6-9 (1974-1975)

Vashti's Voice, Women's Liberation Newspaper, issues 6-9 (1974-1975)

Issues 6-9 (March 1974 onward) of Vashti's Voice, a Melbourne women's liberation newspaper, covering rape crisis, abortion, women's theatre and conferences. The only Indonesia item found is a page of Jakarta family-planning posters in Indonesian; no legible mention of Gerwani survives in the poor OCR.

GA-02229 1974-06-29 Tempo rel A licensed

Ultah SK Trimurti (Ulang tahun S.K. Trimurti)

Tempo, 29 June 1974: S.K. Trimurti's birthday

Tempo profile (29 June 1974) of S.K. Trimurti on her 64th birthday by the Javanese calendar: ex-Minister of Labour (1946-47), journalist since 1933, now editing the spiritual magazine Mawas Diri. Notes her will asking for cremation, her economics degree at 48, a forthcoming biography by Kustiniati Mochtar. No mention o

GA-00122 1975 rel B licensed

The Women's Role in Development in Indonesia (Indonesian National Committee for International Women's Year, 1975)

The Women's Role in Development in Indonesia (National Committee for International Women's Year, 1975)

Indonesia's official country report for the 1975 International Women's Year World Conference in Mexico City, prepared by the Indonesian National Committee under the Suharto government (Jakarta, June 1975). It gives speeches by Suharto, Tien Suharto and ministers, then chapters on women's legal status, the 1974 Marriage

GA-03422 1975-02-01 Neues Deutschland rel C licensed

Neues Deutschland, 1. Februar 1975, S. 15: Paris war das Reiseziel für Delegierte aus aller Welt

Neues Deutschland, 1 Feb 1975, p. 15: Paris was the destination for delegates from all over the world

Neues Deutschland, 1 February 1975, p. 15 (anniversary supplement for International Women's Year): retrospective 'Paris war das Reiseziel für Delegierte aus aller Welt' on the 1934 World Women's Congress against Fascism and War in Paris. Among the speakers, 'the delegate Siti' (surname not given) brought greetings from

GA-03694 1975-05-14 Perpusnas Khastara, Yayasan Idayu photo albums (S.K. Trimurti) rel C

S.K. Trimurti lecture, Yayasan Idayu photo album, image 01 [Khastara 575445]

S.K. Trimurti lecturing on the relation between the labour and women's movements (Idayu photo album)

Photograph from the Koleksi Idayu album at Perpusnas Khastara, captioned as Dr. (h.c.) S.K. Trimurti giving a lecture. The album caption OCR reads a title 'Hubungan Pergerakan Buruh Indonesia dengan Pergerakan Kemerdekaan Nasional' dated 14 May 1975; the file name's truncated caption points to the labour and women's mo

GA-03699 1975-05-14 Perpusnas Khastara, Yayasan Idayu photo albums (S.K. Trimurti) rel C

S.K. Trimurti lecture, Yayasan Idayu photo album, image 06 [Khastara 575445]

S.K. Trimurti lecturing on the relation between the labour and women's movements (Idayu photo album)

Photograph, image 06 of the same Khastara item (575445) as the S.K. Trimurti lecture photograph, from the Yayasan Idayu albums, Perpusnas Khastara. Captioned in the file name as a lecture by Dr. (h.c.) S.K. Trimurti on the relation of the labour movement to the women's movement (title truncated). The OCR gives only the

GA-02331 1975-07-02 Daily World rel C licensed

Mexico Conferees Tie Women's Freedom to Economic Problems (Women under capitalism; Indonesian delegate)

Daily World, 2 July 1975: Mexico conferees tie women's freedom to economic problems

Page 10 of the Daily World (New York, 2 Jul 1975) with a special report from the UN International Women's Year Conference in Mexico City. Delegates from Italy, Fiji, Norway and Indonesia describe discrimination against women workers under capitalism, including lower pay and unemployment; tensions between US feminists a

GA-03048 1976 rel C licensed

The Crescent Arises over the Banyan Tree: A Study of the Muhammadijah Movement in a Central Javanese Town

The Crescent Arises over the Banyan Tree: Muhammadiyah in a Central Javanese Town (Nakamura, 1976)

Mitsuo Nakamura's 1976 Cornell PhD thesis, an ethnography and local history of the Muhammadiyah reform movement in Kotagede, Yogyakarta, arguing that Islamization of Java is an ongoing, internally generated process. Gerwani appears only in passing (p. 208), listed with Pemuda Rakyat and Lekra as PKI-influenced mass org

GA-02390 1977 rel A

Wawancara Maria Ulfah Santoso: PKI dan Gerwani Berusaha Menguasai Kowani (Tempo, sekitar 1977; terjemahan JPRS)

Interview with Maria Ulfah Santoso: PKI and Gerwani tried to control Kowani (Tempo, c. 1977; JPRS)

JPRS translation of a Tempo profile (c. early 1977) of Maria Ulfah Santoso (b. Serang 1911): her marriage to political prisoner Soebadio Sastrosatomo with Subandrio's help (Jan 1964), early women's-movement work, Perwari and Kowani, and the PSI. She says that during her 11 years leading Kowani from 1952, 'PKI and Gerwa