Het Parool wire report (9 Nov 1965) under 'Women cheer Suharto': 100,000 anti-communist demonstrators in Jakarta demand a ban on the PKI and 'crushing' of the 30 September movement; the army searches a Chinese quarter. Thousands of women marched to National Front headquarters; Suharto thanked them for loyalty to the ar
Het Rotterdamsch Parool report (9 Nov 1965, p.1) under 'Women cheer Suharto', same wire text as other Dutch papers: 100,000 anti-communist demonstrators in Jakarta demand banning the PKI; the army searches a Chinese quarter; thousands of women march to the National Front HQ, are addressed by Suharto and cheer him, repr
Neue Zeit, 11 November 1965, p. 2: ADN/TASS item 'Kriegszustand aufgehoben'. Sukarno lifted the state of war in Jakarta imposed after the 'Movement of 30 September'; persecution of communists continues, with 346 party members arrested in Tangerang, 125 people 'including twelve women' in a Central Java town and 40 in Be
Neues Deutschland, 11 November 1965, p. 7. ADN dispatch from Djakarta under 'Sukarno kritisiert Presse': Sukarno lifts the state of war in the capital; Antara reports arrests of PKI members (346 in Tangerang, 125 people including twelve women in a Central Java town, 40 in Belawan); 102 parliamentarians removed; Sukarno
Berita Harian, 15 Nov 1965 (UPI/Antara, lead only). North Sumatra authorities detained a woman, said to be a Gerwani member, accused of attempting a murder and bearing a 'secret mark' on her thigh. The 'secret mark' trope echoes slander about Gerwani women.
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
Izvestiia, 22 Nov 1965, p. 1, TASS: Sukarno at Bogor condemns journalists spreading 'fables' about 'atrocities' of the 30 September movement, orders a civil-service purge under Subandrio; a second item gives arrests (1,600 in South Kalimantan), citing Antara that all those arrested are members of PKI, Gerwani, Pemuda R
Berita Harian, 9 Dec 1965 (UPI photographer Kurnipi, lead only). First-person scene with an imprisoned woman crying that her children are at home and asking why she is held and for how long. Matched on Gerwani; the lead does not name her organisation.
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
ANP report in Algemeen Dagblad (1966-02-15) on Dutch-born lawyer Trees Sunito-Heyligers, the only Indonesian jurist willing to defend PKI/SOBSI leader Njono before the special military tribunal. Her husband Sunito was jailed after the coup and she was dismissed from the state bank. No Gerwani mention; context for the 1
Swiss regional daily, 15 Feb 1966: the special military court trying PKI leader Njono opened the previous day. Njono's sole defence counsel is Mrs Trees Soenito, 50, daughter of a former Dutch official and wife of a jailed leftist leader, who says she was appointed only on Saturday after other lawyers declined. The tex
Page 5 of the East Berlin Berliner Zeitung, 24 Feb 1966, with a short article 'Anklage unhaltbar' and an ADN item on the Jakarta military trial of PKI Politburo member Njono, sentenced to death on 21 Feb. It says he pleaded not guilty and sought clemency from Sukarno, and that his defence counsel, Frau Sunito (Trees Su
Page 5 of the East Berlin Berliner Zeitung, 24 Feb 1966, with a short article 'Anklage unhaltbar' and an ADN item on the Jakarta military trial of PKI Politburo member Njono, sentenced to death on 21 Feb. It says he pleaded not guilty and sought clemency from Sukarno, and that his defence counsel, Frau Sunito (Trees Su
Page 7 of the SED daily Neues Deutschland, 24 Feb 1966, with a commentary and an ADN dispatch on the death sentence passed on PKI Politburo member Njono on 21 Feb. The dispatch says his defence counsel, Frau Sunito (Trees Sunito), also showed the accusations to be groundless. The commentary condemns the killings of Com
Page 7 of the SED daily Neues Deutschland, 24 Feb 1966, with a commentary and an ADN dispatch on the death sentence passed on PKI Politburo member Njono on 21 Feb. The dispatch says his defence counsel, Frau Sunito (Trees Sunito), also showed the accusations to be groundless. The commentary condemns the killings of Com
Xinhua report in Renmin Ribao (19 Apr 1966, p. 4) of a 13 April communiqué by the Thai Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Committee condemning Indonesia's military and 'reactionaries': 78,500 killed and 106,000 arrested per the Fact-Finding Commission in Bali, Java and North Sumatra; bans on Pemuda Rakyat, CGMI, Gerwani, B
Sinar Harapan, 17 Oktober 1966 (butir tanggal 18 Oktober). The keyword hit is an Antara item visible at the scan's edge from the next day's issue: 'former PKI/Gerwani members' at Kayuagung (South Sumatra) made to burn communist books.
Sinar Harapan, 18 Oktober 1966: 'Buku2 komunis dibakar'. Antara item: in Kayuagung (South Sumatra) 'ex-PKI/Gerwani' members burned communist and Marxist literature seized in a military raid before the regency authorities.
Sinar Harapan, 4 November 1966: '3 Gembong Gestapu dibekuk'. Antara item: the Gerwani chair for South Bengkulu (name omitted), a PKI sub-section secretary and a BTI member captured after fleeing into the forest.
Short NZPA-Reuter dispatch in The Press (Christchurch), 19 Nov 1966, citing Antara: the first woman member of the banned PKI to face trial will appear before a special military court in South Sumatra. She is named only as Suwarti, a Central Committee member. The sweep tentatively identifies her as Suwarti Bintang Surad
Pravda front page, 19 Feb 1967 (No. 50), full-page capture of the same issue. The only Indonesia item is the short TASS report 'Arrests': PKI CC candidate Anwar Nasution, Pemuda Rakyat leaders, CC member Rachmat and three members of Gerwani's central leadership were arrested in Jakarta. Other articles concern Turkey, S
Short De Telegraaf wire (5 Jan 1968, Reuter): Dutch-born lawyer Trees Soenito-Heyligers (52) was arrested in Jakarta on suspicion of membership of the banned communist scholars' association; she had defended trade-union leader Njono, sentenced to death for the 1965 coup. Gerwani is not mentioned.
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'.
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
Berita Harian, 7 Oct 1968 (Reuters, lead only). Presidential secretary Col. Sutikno denied that Hartini, Sukarno's second wife, had been detained or recently questioned; the last interrogation was about 18 months earlier. Matched on Gerwani though lead does not mention it.
Eastern Sun, 7 Oct 1968 (Reuters, lead only). Presidential secretary Col. Sutikno denied that Hartini, Sukarno's second wife, was detained or recently interrogated; the last questioning was about 18 months earlier. Matched on Gerwani though the lead does not mention it.
De Waarheid, 29 Oct 1968, p. 1: report, via Reuters, that the Indonesian military regime executed PKI Central Committee members Njono and Sudisman and Yogyakarta PKI secretary Wirjomartono by firing squad in Jakarta Bay after secret tribunal hearings; an initial report on Supardjo and Ruslan Kamaludin was retracted. It
Swiss Thurgauer Zeitung, 12 October 1973, a dpa wire report on Amnesty International's 'Week of the Political Prisoner' campaign against torture, naming ten torture victims. The Indonesian Sri Ambar (Sri Ambar Rukmiati per the sweep log) is said to have been beaten stripped and hung naked by her wrists a whole night. H
Swiss newspaper page (Walliser Bote, 12 Oct 1973) of agency news, mostly German Ostpolitik and Swiss matters. A short item on Amnesty International's anti-torture campaign says that the Indonesian woman Sri Ambar was beaten naked and hung by her wrists for a whole night; the catalogue identifies her as Sri Ambar Rukmia
East German daily Berliner Zeitung, 20 October 1976, p. 7, a news-in-brief item headed 'Verurteilt' reporting that an Indonesian military court sentenced Mrs Siti Sundari Abdul Rahman, arrested in October 1965, an active PKI leader and former MP, to life imprisonment. The rest of the page is unrelated. Gerwani is not m