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GA-01157 1957-03-16 Indische Courant Voor Nederland rel C

Luitenant-kolonel Sumual bereid om in Djakarta verantwoording af te leggen (Lt-Col Sumual willing to account in Jakarta)

Lt-Col Sumual willing to account in Jakarta

Indische Courant voor Nederland, 16 Mar 1957, p. 1: after the East Indonesian military proclamation, parliament considers sending observers to T.T. VII including Mrs Ch. Salawati (PKI); the PKI central committee condemns Sumual's action as linked to Colonel Lubis and SEATO subversion.

GA-00740 1958-02-06 De TijD Godsdienstig-Staatkundig Dagblad rel C

Soekarno, de aartsintrigant (Sukarno, the arch-intriguer)

Sukarno, the arch-intriguer: profile including the Hartini marriage

Long profile of Sukarno by C.H. Schaap in De Tijd (6 Feb 1958) tracing his career and manoeuvres. It notes that in Oct 1954 his marriage to Hartini caused general indignation among Indonesian women, who remembered his book "Sarinah", and that Fatmawati left him. Gerwani is not named.

GA-00570 1958-02-18 Amigoe di Curacao rel C

Soekarno, de aartsintrigant (Sukarno, the master intriguer)

Sukarno, the master intriguer

Profile of President Sukarno in the Curaçao weekly Amigoe di Curaçao (18 Feb 1958, p. 4), portraying him as a charming but ruthless 'master intriguer' and authoritarian. It narrates his career and notes women's indignation at his 1954 marriage to Hartini despite his book Sarinah. Gerwani is not mentioned.

GA-00571 1958-02-18 Amigoe Di Curacao rel C

Soekarno, de aartsintrigant (Sukarno, the master intriguer) [duplicate]

Sukarno, the master intriguer [duplicate]

Second copy (different Delpher ID) of the Amigoe di Curaçao profile of Sukarno, 18 Feb 1958: an unflattering account of him as authoritarian master intriguer, from 1920s nationalism to the 1957 cabinet. Mentions the general women's indignation at his marriage to Hartini despite writing Sarinah. Gerwani is not named.

GA-02622 1959-10-13 rel C licensed

Indonesia's new governmental bodies (OIR report, October 1959)

Indonesia's New Governmental Bodies (OIR report, Oct 1959)

State Department intelligence report (13 Oct 1959) on Indonesia's new governmental bodies under Guided Democracy: Cabinet, National Advisory Council, National Planning Council. Appendices list members with functional-group labels, including S.K. Trimurti (teachers), Umi Sardjono (women), Rasuna Said and Emma Puradiredj

GA-01089 1966-02-25 Het Vrije Volk rel C

Proces na mislukte staatsgreep: Oentoeng erkent bevel tot moord op generaals

Trial after failed coup: Untung admits order to murder generals

Het Vrije Volk/Reuters report (25 Feb 1966, p.21) on Colonel Untung's trial before the Jakarta court-martial: he admits his order to take away the generals meant they should be killed, says he acted to save Sukarno from a military plot and denies PKI membership. Lawyer Trees Soenito-Heyligers asked Sukarno to pardon Nj

GA-01537 1966-10-29 The Scotsman rel C licensed

Not the old Subandrio (The Scotsman, 29 Oktober 1966)

Not the old Subandrio (The Scotsman, 29 October 1966)

The Scotsman, 29 Oct 1966, 'Not the old Subandrio': profile of Sukarno's former foreign minister, condemned to death by a military tribunal for treason and bearing 'heavy responsibility for the rise of the PKI'. It traces his career and notes he is a scapegoat the Suharto regime can blame while Sukarno is retained for

GA-00735 1970-06-22 De Tijd rel C

Grootheidswaanzin (Megalomania)

Megalomania: retrospective on Sukarno after his death

De Tijd retrospective on Sukarno's megalomania (22 Jun 1970, after his death): his second marriage to Hartini in 1954 provoked opposition from the monogamy-minded women's movement, then the 1965 coup, Suharto's rise, the March 1966 transfer of powers and the PKI ban. Gerwani is not named.

GA-00736 1970-06-22 De Tijd rel C

Grootheidswaanzin (Megalomania)

Megalomania: retrospective on Sukarno after his death (second copy)

De Tijd retrospective on Sukarno's megalomania (22 Jun 1970, after his death): his second marriage to Hartini in 1954 provoked opposition from the monogamy-minded women's movement, then the 1965 coup, Suharto's rise, the March 1966 transfer of powers and the PKI ban. Gerwani is not named. Duplicate of GA-00735.

GA-00737 1974-02-08 De Tijd rel C

Een politieke vechtersbaas (A political fighter: Ratna Sari Dewi Sukarno)

A political fighter: profile of Ratna Sari Dewi Sukarno in Paris

De Tijd profile by Anton Koene (8 Feb 1974) of Ratna Sari Dewi Sukarno in Paris, who is serialising her memoirs to clear Sukarno's name over the 1 Oct 1965 coup, rebuts the Widjanarko report in Dake's book and criticises Suharto's regime. Gerwani and Gerwani women are not mentioned.

GA-03037 1976 rel C licensed

Recruitment and Factional Patterns of the Indonesian Political Elite: Guided Democracy and the New Order (PhD thesis, Columbia University, 1976)

Recruitment and Factional Patterns of the Indonesian Political Elite (Gregory, 1976)

Ann Gregory's Columbia PhD thesis (1976) on the recruitment, career patterns and factions of the Indonesian political elite under Guided Democracy and the New Order, based on elite biographies, with chapters on military and civilian factions. It is a quantitative study of Javanese dominance and clientelism. Gerwani is

GA-01069 1995-05-06 Het Parool rel C

Loyaal (over het ontstaan van het Indonesische nationalisme)

Loyal (on the origins of Indonesian nationalism)

Het Parool (6 May 1995) continuation of the feature on the Indonesian road to independence. Francisca Fanggidaej recalls first hearing the word 'Indonesia' from a cousin; historians Harry Poeze and Pieter Droogleever and veterans Gondo Pratomo and Aky Djoehana discuss early nationalism, Perhimpunan Indonesia, ethical p

GA-00749 1995-08-12 De Volkskrant rel C

Folio: Kanalisering van een nationaal narcisme (Channelling a national narcissism)

Folio: Channelling a national narcissism (Blokker column on Indies books)

Jan Blokker column in De Volkskrant (12 Aug 1995) reviewing Dutch books on the Indies and the colonial past. Mrs. S.K. Trimurti appears only as an interviewee quoted in H.C. Beynon's "Verboden voor honden en inlanders", on living with Inggit after Sukarno's 1933 arrest. Gerwani is not mentioned.

GA-03598 2007-10-01 Tempo (Edisi 1 Oktober 2007) rel C licensed

Malam Terakhir: Setelah Lampu Depan Dimatikan (Tempo, 1 Oct 2007)

The last night: after the headlights went out (Aidit's last night at home, Tempo, 2007)

Tempo piece (1 October 2007) reconstructing D.N. Aidit's last night at home, 30 September 1965, from his son Ilham and brother Murad. His wife Dr Soetanti Aidit angrily quarrels with him and urges him not to leave; he goes anyway. The article sets out the contested versions of where he went that night. Soetanti appears

GA-02302 2023-05-22 Tempo rel C licensed

SK Trimurti, Menteri Tenaga Kerja Pertama Indonesia dan Perjalanan Politiknya

Tempo.co, 22 May 2023: S.K. Trimurti, Indonesia's first labour minister, and her political journey

Tempo.co profile (22 May 2023, Febyana Siagian and S. Dian Andryanto) of SK Trimurti, journalist and Indonesia's first labour minister. It covers her birth in Boyolali (1912), teacher training, Rukun Wanita, Partindo in Bandung, press work, witnessing the BPUPKI and the 1945 proclamation push, KNIP membership, and the