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GA-00598 1957-03-30 Dagblad Voor Noord-Limburg rel C

'De vaders zijn niet rein': Mevr. Fatmawati Soekarno: 'Laat mij kabinet vormen' ('The fathers are not pure')

'The fathers are not pure': Mrs Fatmawati Sukarno: 'Let me form a cabinet'

Dagblad voor Noord-Limburg, 30 Mar 1957: Fatmawati, Sukarno's first wife, who left the palace after his 1954 marriage to Hartini 'to the great indignation of the Indonesian women's organisation', proposes in an open letter that a non-party woman form the new cabinet ('the fathers are not pure'). Page also covers anti-c

GA-00338 1961-04-26 Tribune rel C

S.A. women active for Afro-Asian Week (Tribune, 26 April 1961)

S.A. women active for Afro-Asian Week

Tribune (Adelaide/SA edition and Sydney edition), 26 Apr 1961: South Australian Union of Australian Women prepares for Afro-Asian Solidarity Week. It sent greetings to Gen. Nasution on his Australian visit supporting Indonesia's claim to West New Guinea and urging an Australia-Indonesia peace pact, and wrote on Cuba an

GA-00339 1961-04-26 Tribune rel C

S.A. women active for Afro-Asian Week (Tribune, 26 April 1961)

S.A. women active for Afro-Asian Week

Tribune (Adelaide/SA edition and Sydney edition), 26 Apr 1961: South Australian Union of Australian Women prepares for Afro-Asian Solidarity Week. It sent greetings to Gen. Nasution on his Australian visit supporting Indonesia's claim to West New Guinea and urging an Australia-Indonesia peace pact, and wrote on Cuba an

GA-02589 1965-10-12 rel C

Telegram 971 to Secretary of State, 12 Oktober 1965

Telegram 971 to Secretary of State, 12 Oct 1965

US Embassy telegram 971, 12 Oct 1965: a German embassy source says the Army is considering overthrowing Sukarno and signalling Western embassies; Sukarno refused to read PKI-complicity papers. High-politics context; no Gerwani content.

GA-02594 1965-11-12 rel C

Telegram 1425: Joint Situation Report no. 51, 12 November 1965

Telegram 1425: Joint Situation Report no. 51, 12 Nov 1965

US Embassy Joint Situation Report no. 51, 12 Nov 1965: Army-Sukarno contest plus a security section on riots in Makassar, a massacre of 200 PKI prisoners in Bone and arrests in Jakarta. No Gerwani mention; shows how killings were framed as a 'security' item.

GA-02585 1965-12-10 rel C

Telegram 187 (Joint Sitrep 19), US Consulate Surabaya, 9 Desember 1965

Telegram 187 (Joint Sitrep 19), US Consulate Surabaya, 9 December 1965

US Consulate Surabaya Joint Sitrep 19, 9 December 1965: Kediri PKI following 'decimated', military 'turning its back' on Muslim killings in Pasuruan, mass dismissal of officials. Regional context; no mention of Gerwani or women.

GA-02649 1965-12-16 rel C

Record of conversation between N.S. Khrushchev and Sukarno, 9 June 1961

Conversation between Khrushchev and Sukarno, 9 June 1961

Soviet record (top secret) of Khrushchev's 9 June 1961 conversation with Sukarno, translated by Angela Greenfield (Wilson Center). Khrushchev warns of US intelligence ties to rebels and army officers; Sukarno discusses banned parties, Nasakom, his backing for the PKI and consultation with Aidit, and distrust of Subandr

GA-00661 1966-02-25 De Nieuwe Limburger rel C

Gevechten in Djakarta (Fighting in Jakarta)

Fighting in Jakarta: students storm Sukarno's palace

De Nieuwe Limburger, 25 Feb 1966: students storm Sukarno's palace after the swearing-in of the new cabinet; Sukarno calls them 'madmen' and the cabinet is derided as a 'Gestapu cabinet'. A photo caption notes that KOWANI members also joined the mass gathering at the palace. Gerwani is not named.

GA-00497 1966-03-09 Algemeen Handelsblad rel C

Militairen kijken toe: Scholieren in Djakarta opnieuw in de aanval (Militer menonton: pelajar Jakarta kembali menyerang)

Soldiers look on: schoolchildren in Jakarta attack again

Algemeen Handelsblad (1966-03-09, pp. 1 and 11): student and schoolchildren demonstrations in Jakarta, tanks outside ministries, a student demand to ban the PKI, and Siliwangi troops beating the Cakrabirawa guard to the university. Sukarno told a meeting of Indonesian women (unnamed) to amend a resolution to condemn Am

GA-00287 1966-04-14 The Canberra Times rel C

Night walk of the ghosts (Canberra Times, 14 April 1966)

Night Walk of the Ghosts (Canberra Times, 14 April 1966)

Canberra Times, 14 Apr 1966, p. 2: first part of an anonymous Jakarta writer's anti-PKI reconstruction of 30 Sep-1 Oct 1965, casting Aidit and Untung as plotters and describing the murder of generals, with young Communist 'gangs of youths and girls' trained in camps. Gerwani not named; story continues next day. Cold Wa

GA-02608 1967-01-20 rel C

Telegram 1626 to Secretary of State, Januari 1967

Telegram 1626 to Secretary of State, Jan 1967

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.

GA-01330 1973-09-22 NRC Handelsblad rel C

Hollands Dagboek, donderdag 13 sept. (Dutch Diary, Thursday 13 Sept.)

Dutch Diary, Thursday 13 Sept. (Willem Oltmans)

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