Gerwani Archive
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GA-02405 1965-12-22 rel B licensed

US Embassy Djakarta, Joint Sitrep No. 68, Telegram 1842 (22 Desember 1965)

US Embassy Djakarta, Joint Sitrep No. 68, Telegram 1842 (22 December 1965)

US Embassy Djakarta telegram 1842, Joint Sitrep No. 68 (22 Dec 1965, Secret, sanitized, OCR rough). Reports Sukarno's speeches defending the PKI, including a Mother's Day gathering where he defended the PKI's women's affiliate (Gerwani), Nasution's 'basic guide' for crushing the PKI, the PNI purge, anti-Chinese violenc

GA-01493 1977-06 Kinesis rel A licensed

Women round the World: Indonesian Women (Kinesis, Juni 1977)

Women round the World: Indonesian Women (Kinesis, June 1977)

Kinesis (Vancouver feminist paper), June 1977, p.10, 'Women round the World': a section on Indonesian women. It says Gerwani, the largest women's organisation (over one million members), was banned for alleged complicity in the 1965 coup and blamed for atrocities; many members suffered torture and sexual abuse in inter