Minutes of Zhou Enlai's discussion with Indonesian First Deputy Prime Minister Subandrio, Guangzhou, 28 May 1965 (Wilson Center Digital Archive; from CWIHP Working Paper 22). Zhou discusses the Vietnam War, US escalation and his four-point statement made at Bogor in April 1965 on Chinese readiness. Editorial notes sket
US Embassy airgram A-808, 29 June 1966: the Army Military Police Corps (CPM) screens ministry officials for 'subversive opinions' about 30 September under Supersemar authority, using a loyalty questionnaire. Shows the bureaucratic purge and screening of 'involvement'.
Snippet-only Renmin Ribao extract (9 Dec 1966, p. 6): Ibrahim Isa, secretary-general of the Indonesian Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organisation (AAPSO), appeals to stop Suharto and Nasution from massacring 300,000 Indonesian patriots; truncated. Gerwani not named. Full text is GA-01994.
Xinhua report in Renmin Ribao (9 Dec 1966, p. 6) of a statement by Ibrahim Isa, secretary-general of Indonesian AAPSO, urging world solidarity against the Suharto-Nasution regime, said to hold 300,000 prisoners including women's organisation cadres and to have slaughtered hundreds of thousands. It also attacks Soviet '
Xinhua report in Renmin Ribao (14 Dec 1966, p. 1): five Chinese organisations, including the All-China Women's Federation, jointly condemn Indonesia's 'right-wing military regime' for mass slaughter and detention of 300,000, support the Indonesian AAPSO appeal, and attack Soviet 'revisionists' and Adam Malik's Moscow v
PhD dissertation in political science (Claremont, 1967) by Jerry Mark Silverman on national communism and polycentrism, 1919-1966, using the 'political community' framework with the PKI as case study (Section III, chs. 4-5 on PKI independence and ambivalence). It confines its Indonesian analysis to the period before 1
US Embassy telegram, Jan 1967, recording Maj. Gen. Sjarif Thajeb saying anti-Sukarno 'hawks' wanted to force Suharto to act by March and that Sukarno's Nawaksara supplement would blame 'Nekolim'. Political context on Sukarno's removal; no Gerwani content.
Secret airgram from Ambassador Green, 21 July 1967, a cultural-political guide for US officials dealing with Suharto's government; one line notes Indonesians seeking US 'post-payment' for destroying communism. No women or Gerwani content.
Tubantia profile (25 Oct 1967) of Adam Malik on his visit to The Hague to meet Luns: Dutch plea for clemency for Subandrio, New Guinea, credit needs, his role against Sukarno. Notes that in 1965 Mrs Subandrio led a women's demonstration against Malik, then trade minister. Gerwani not named; context for Subandrio's wife
Typescript diary by Elliott Haynes of Business International, Dec 1967, recording about sixty Jakarta meetings with technocrats, officials and politicians while preparing a 1968 executives' roundtable. Background on New Order economic opening; no Gerwani content.
WIDF 1969 Sixth Congress documents (Helsinki): auditing committee financial report and General Secretary Cécile Hugel's report on activities since 1963. Mostly Vietnam, Middle East and Latin America; Hugel notes WIDF's concern for 'democratic men and women in Indonesia', its telegram to Suharto, and that nothing had be
John H. Sullivan's 1969 American University PhD in international relations traces US-Indonesian relations c. 1963-68 and the emergence of the New Order, covering the anti-American period, the 30 September Movement and its aftermath, and regional, communist-bloc and economic relations. It is diplomatic and political his
Daily World, 8 July 1969, p. 10: William J. Pomeroy (London) and the Foreign Department on British 'withdrawal' from bases in Singapore and Malaysia, and on Indonesia's opening to foreign capital after the 1967 investment law and the 1965 massacre of up to 566,000 Communists. Lists US oil firms and banks returning and
Masashi Nishihara's 1973 Michigan PhD thesis on Japanese-Indonesian relations 1951-1966: war reparations, the Kishi-Sukarno settlement, lobbies, the Malaysia confrontation and the 'Sukarno groups'. Gerwani appears only once (pp. 285-286): the Nasution-Suharto group's claim that Pemuda Rakyat, Gerwani and SOBSI trained
Willem Oltmans's 'Hollands Dagboek' in NRC Handelsblad (22 Sep 1973), entries 13-20 Sept. Covers his New Guinea/Luns campaign, Hatta, Pertamina corruption, Chile 1973 compared to Indonesia 1965 mass murder, and Nasution's letters about Aidit shared by Dewi Sukarno. Lists imprisoned Indonesian writers and journalists. N
Poster for an 'Indonesie-avond' protest meeting at Frascati, Amsterdam, 28 April 1975, against the donor countries conference, demanding an end to aid to Suharto and release of political prisoners. Dutch solidarity material.
Pravda, 30 Oct 1990, p. 5: full page with V. Shurygin's (Pravda-TASS) article 'Indonesia: strokes to a tragedy of 35 years ago', a Soviet correspondent's retrospective on the 1965 coup, Sukarno's choice at Halim, up to 500,000 communists killed, and slander-driven anti-communist propaganda. Gerwani appears once, listed
PhD dissertation in History (UCLA, 2014) by Dahlia Gratia Setiyawan on U.S. anti-communist operations and the 1965-66 purge in Surabaya. Gerwani appears in context: as the PKI's women's affiliate (ch. 1), through the Surabaya women's coalition GOWS in the 27 September 1965 Grahadi demonstration (ch. 4), and in the Army