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GA-00430 1966-12-28 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 28 Desember 1966

Berita Yudha, 28 December 1966

Berita Yudha, 28 Desember 1966. Boxed report: in 1967 former Cakrabirawa members will be tried and 'former members of Gerwani', including leading figures, will also face trial.

GA-02123 1967 Pravda rel A

Pravda, 19 February 1967, No. 50: Arrests in Jakarta (PKI, Pemuda Rakjat, Gerwani)

Pravda, 19 Feb 1967: arrests in Jakarta (PKI, Pemuda Rakjat, Gerwani)

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

GA-00230 1967-01-25 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 25 Januari 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 25 January 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 25 Januari 1967. One-line brief that detainees in Metro, Central Lampung, including Gerwani, held Idulfitri prayers together under the local commander; also Kodam Jaya arrests.

GA-00231 1967-02-13 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 13 Februari 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 13 February 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 13 Februari 1967. Issue on the DPR-GR resolution and memorandum (9 Feb 1967) on Sukarno's accountability for G30S/PKI; Gerwani mentioned in an inner-page item.

GA-00292 1967-04-03 The Canberra Times rel B

A fighting editor: Jogjakarta (Canberra Times, 3 April 1967)

A Fighting Editor: Jogjakarta (Canberra Times, 3 April 1967)

Canberra Times, 3 Apr 1967, p. 2: Creighton Burns profiles Jussac Margo Rahardjo, editor of Pelopor Jogja, a former Radio Australia announcer turned anti-Communist propagandist. In 1965 local authorities, he says, used Gerwani, which then controlled the Jogjakarta federation of women's associations, as 'the lever' to p

GA-00293 1967-04-03 The Canberra Times rel B

A fighting editor: Jogjakarta (Canberra Times, 3 April 1967)

A Fighting Editor: Jogjakarta (Canberra Times, 3 April 1967), duplicate

Canberra Times, 3 Apr 1967, p. 2: Creighton Burns profiles Jussac Margo Rahardjo, editor of Pelopor Jogja, a former Radio Australia announcer turned anti-Communist propagandist. In 1965 local authorities, he says, used Gerwani, which then controlled the Jogjakarta federation of women's associations, as 'the lever' to p

GA-00232 1967-04-21 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 21 April 1967 (Hari Kartini)

Angkatan Bersendjata, 21 April 1967 (Hari Kartini). Small Antara item: an RPKAD climbing team on Merapi found a skeleton locals said was 'probably a woman member of Gerwani' who fled arrest; Kartini Day editorial.

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-01268 1967-05-24 Leeuwarder Courant rel C

Achter het nieuws (Behind the news: Chinese in Indonesia)

Behind the news: Chinese in Indonesia

Leeuwarder Courant, 24 May 1967, p. 1: front-page background column on the persecution of ethnic Chinese in Indonesia after 1965, citing camps in Medan, roundups in Borneo, closed Chinese schools in East Java, and the mass killings of communists and suspects in which Chinese families died. The tone is stereotyping. Ger

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-00235 1967-07-12 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 12 Juli 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 12 July 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 12 Juli 1967. Report on the 11th session of Sudisman's Mahmillub trial (witnesses Karel Supit and Sardjono); Gerwani mentioned on p. 3 as the court was to hear further witnesses.

GA-00237 1967-10-01 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 1 Oktober 1967 (edisi Mingguan)

Angkatan Bersendjata, 1 October 1967 (Weekly Edition)

Angkatan Bersendjata, 1 Oktober 1967 (edisi Mingguan). Second-anniversary issue with a front-page lead 'Dianiaja' alleging the generals were tortured and mutilated and contradicting Sukarno; the richest Lubang Buaya slander item in this run.

GA-00238 1967-10-11 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 11 Oktober 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 11 October 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 11 Oktober 1967. Editorial welcoming foreign press support quotes Otto Kuyk's Dutch book 'Sukarno Tabeh': on the night of G30S women seized the bound generals and tortured them in the filthiest and cruelest ways.

GA-00239 1967-10-16 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 16 Oktober 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 16 October 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 16 Oktober 1967. Antara report: 25 ex-PKI arrested in Banyuwangi for underground activity and spreading a Sukarno cult, including 'P.S, a former Gerwani member' and a Chinese courier.

GA-01413 1967-11-20 Harian Kami rel A

Harian Kami, 20 November 1967

Harian Kami, 20 November 1967: Sarwo Edhie on crushing the 'PKI Malam' near Lubuk Pakam

Harian Kami, 20 November 1967. KNI report: Sarwo Edhie on crushing the 'PKI Malam' near Lubuk Pakam: 429 PKI and 58 soldiers arrested, planned attacks on ABRI posts, 'some members of Gerwani' involved.

GA-00240 1967-11-21 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 21 November 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 21 November 1967. 'Operasi Tjakra' in North Sumatra: 215 PKI members arrested for an alleged 'Gerakan 12 Nopember'; Pemuda Rakyat, BTI and Gerwani members at Tanjung Morawa and 'women members of Gerwani' among those arrested.

GA-03470 1967-12 Tricontinental Bulletin, no. 21 (Havana) rel B

Tricontinental Bulletin, no. 21 (December 1967): issue catalogued for Indonesian political prisoners incl. Sutanti Aidit

Tricontinental Bulletin no. 21 (Havana, Dec 1967): denunciation of Suharto regime and death sentences

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

GA-03471 1967-12 Tricontinental Bulletin, no. 21 (Havana) rel B

Tricontinental Bulletin, no. 21 (December 1967): issue catalogued for Indonesian political prisoners incl. Sutanti Aidit

Tricontinental Bulletin no. 21 (Havana, Dec 1967): denunciation of Suharto regime and death sentences

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

GA-00241 1967-12-05 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 5 Desember 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 5 December 1967

Angkatan Bersendjata, 5 Desember 1967. Follow-up on 'Operasi Tjakra': 750 arrested in North Sumatra including ex-PKI, PR, Chinese nationals and Gerwani; a Gerwani fugitive from Lubuk Pakam caught on a plantation.

GA-01066 1968-01-05 Het Parool rel B

Huisbrandolie wordt 1,5 cent duurder (met AP-bericht over de arrestatie van Trees Soenito)

Heating oil 1.5 cents dearer (with AP report on the arrest of Trees Soenito)

Het Parool item (5 Jan 1968) in a page of unrelated news (heating oil prices). The AP paragraph reports Jakarta police arrested Dutch-born lawyer Trees Soenito, former defender of PKI's Njono, who according to the armed forces daily is suspected of communist sympathies and 'would have been a former leader of Gerwani'.

GA-01078 1968-01-05 Het Rotterdamsch Parool rel B

Djakarta, vrijdag (AP): arrestatie van Trees Soenito

Jakarta, Friday (AP): arrest of Trees Soenito

One-paragraph AP wire item in Het Rotterdamsch Parool (5 Jan 1968, p.1): Jakarta police arrested Dutch-born lawyer Trees Soenito, earlier defender of PKI's Njono. According to the armed forces daily she is suspected of communist sympathies and 'would have been a former leader of Gerwani'. Allegation only; no other deta

GA-00432 1968-03-18 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 18 Maret 1968

Berita Yudha, 18 March 1968

Berita Yudha, 18 Maret 1968. Operation Sambar Raga in Surabaya (Jan–13 Mar 1968) arrested 79 members and leaders of CC PKI, SOBSI, Gerwani, Pemuda Rakyat and CGMI, alleged to be organised in a 'Tri Komando Kota'.

GA-00243 1968-03-27 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 27 Maret 1968

Angkatan Bersendjata, 27 March 1968

Angkatan Bersendjata, 27 Maret 1968. Security report 'PKI malam' arrests during the MPRS session; reports the capture on 22 March 1968 in Tanjung Priok of Nj. Soeharti So[...], a Gerwani figure disguised as a Qur'an teacher.

GA-00433 1968-06-14 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 14 Juni 1968

Berita Yudha, 14 June 1968: 2 PKI members of Kebon Melati seized

Berita Yudha, 14 Juni 1968. '2 Anggota PKI Kebon Melati dibekuk': Hajati alias 'ibu Imam', ex-chair of Gerwani Ranting Baturaja, arrested in Tanah Abang; allegedly 'protected 11 Gerwani members'.

GA-00434 1968-06-24 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 24 Juni 1968: '2 Aktivis Gerwani dan 10 orang sel PKI ditangkap'

Berita Yudha, 24 June 1968: 2 Gerwani activists and 10 PKI cell members arrested

Berita Yudha, 24 Juni 1968: '2 Aktivis Gerwani dan 10 orang sel PKI ditangkap'. Kodim 0504 arrested Suprijanti (21) and Turminah (23), 'ex-Gerwani activists' who allegedly 'confessed' to helping torture and kill the generals at Lubang Buaya at a young age.

GA-00435 1968-06-25 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 25 Juni 1968

Berita Yudha, 25 June 1968

Berita Yudha, 25 Juni 1968. Front page prints portrait photographs of Tuminah (23) and Suprijanti (21) as 'ex-Gerwani activists' who 'confessed' to helping kill the generals, the visual follow-up to the 24 June report.

GA-00436 1968-07-22 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 22 Juli 1968

Berita Yudha, 22 July 1968: Kodim 0501 arrests 18 G30S/PKI members

Berita Yudha, 22 Juli 1968. 'Kodim 0501 tangkap 18 angg. G 30 S/PKI': among 18 arrested in Central Jakarta (1–18 July 1968) are four Gerwani women including ex-treasurer Siti Munidjar and ex-chair Djuriah.

GA-00468 1968-07-22 Duta Masjarakat rel A

Duta Masjarakat, 22 Juli 1968

Duta Masjarakat, 22 July 1968

Duta Masjarakat, 22 Juli 1968. NU daily lists 18 alleged PKI/Pemuda Rakyat members arrested by Kodim 0501 in Central Jakarta, including four Gerwani women named by role (ex-treasurer, branch chair).

GA-00260 1968-08 Angkatan Bersendjata Minggu rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata Minggu, Agustus 1968 (edisi Minggu)

Angkatan Bersendjata Minggu, August 1968 (Sunday Edition)

Angkatan Bersendjata Minggu, Agustus 1968 (edisi Minggu). Sunday edition, Independence Day issue: mostly entertainment; the single Gerwani item is a boxed city-column feature on a young jamu seller from Semarang, joking about Gerwani.

GA-00245 1968-08-16 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 16 Agustus 1968

Angkatan Bersendjata, 16 August 1968

Angkatan Bersendjata, 16 Agustus 1968. Operasi Trisula commander Col. Witarmin reports the PKI underground in South Blitar crushed and lists captured leaders including five women, among them Nj. Gatot Sutarjo, 'chair of Gerwani'.