Merdeka, 19 Mar 1951, p. 2: S.K. Trimurti of the Gerwis central board says Gerwis will focus on village councils over parliamentary seats, on doctors, midwives and marriage issues, and denies Gerwis is a PKI onderbouw.
Abadi, 9 June 1951, p. 2: Antara report of S.K. Trimurti, as Gerwis chair, at its first-anniversary event in Semarang: Gerwis is a mass organisation among women, not political; calls to end corruption and division.
Merdeka, 4 September 1951 (hlm. 2): 'Trimurti tindjau gerakan2 wanita': Gerwis vice-chair S.K. Trimurti, touring Sumatra since 27 July 1951 with her secretary, criticises urban women's organisations in Medan as weak and ceremonial.
Abadi, 8 Sept 1951, p. 1: five Indonesians, including Gerwis leader S.K. Trimurti, invited by Chinese peace, women's and cultural bodies (Guo Moruo, Cai Chang, Mao Dun) to the PRC's second National Day on 1 October 1951.
Abadi, 18 Sept 1951, p. 2: Antara report that Gerwis chair S.K. Trimurti was arrested on the Attorney General's order on 17 Sept 1951 at the Jakarta immigration office while arranging a passport for China; Sukiman-era anticommunist climate.
Abadi, 21 Sept 1951, p. 2: Attorney General's spokesman tells Gerwis that Trimurti is held over seized 'important letters'; the legal basis is unexplained, detention length tied to her 'confessions', she is moved to Cipinang without visits.
Merdeka, 21 September 1951 (hlm. 2): 'Sekitar penangkapan S.K. Trimurti': Gerwis central board communiqué relaying in nine points the Attorney General's answers on the arrest of its vice-chair; ordered mid-August, letters found, detention depending on her statements.
Abadi, 15 Mar 1952, p. 3: Trimurti's open letter (while detained) to women's organisations before a Kongres Wanita Indonesia conference, proposing majority voting and a minimum programme on schools, rice prices, women's and child labour, and trafficking.
Suluh Indonesia, Jakarta, 12 February 1958 (four pages, OCR very noisy). Front page covers the Husein ultimatum and the dismissal of Sumatran army dissidents (Husein, Simbolon, Dahlan Djambek, Lubis) and Nasution's soldier's-oath statement. A short garbled item on p. 1 lists Indonesian women, including S.K. Trimurti, l
Suluh Indonesia, Jakarta, 14 February 1958 (four pages, OCR very noisy). Front page: the Husein ultimatum, cabinet and Sumatra crisis. Page 3 (cont. from p. 1) carries 'Menyambut Konperensi Wanita Asia-Afrika' on the conference due in Colombo 15-24 Feb 1958 (education, health, labour, slavery, nationality), and lists t
Suluh Indonesia, Jakarta, 8 March 1958 (four pages, OCR very noisy; mostly general news and adverts). Page 3 carries 'Konperensi Wanita A-A: hanya delegasi Indonesia tegas dan berani bicara politik', on the Asian-African Women's Conference in Colombo. It names the eight-woman Indonesian delegation: Maria Ulfah Santoso
Tempo profile (29 June 1974) of S.K. Trimurti on her 64th birthday by the Javanese calendar: ex-Minister of Labour (1946-47), journalist since 1933, now editing the spiritual magazine Mawas Diri. Notes her will asking for cremation, her economics degree at 48, a forthcoming biography by Kustiniati Mochtar. No mention o
Tempo profile of Sawito Kartowibowo, the mystic behind the 1976 'Sawito affair' manifesto, discussing his prophecies of a new 'Sawitan' age. It notes that his essays appeared in Mawas Diri, the monthly led by Dra. S.K. Trimurti. Trimurti appears only incidentally; Gerwani is not mentioned.
Tempo item (26 February 1977) profiling Maria Ulfah, who advises working women on labour rights and the marriage law and speaks against polygamy. It says she works with 'dra. SK Trimurti' in the Yayasan Tenaga Kerja Indonesia (YTKI) on women workers' workshops, seminars and legal information. Trimurti, a Gerwis founder
Reader's letter in Tempo (12 May 1990) responding to Trimurti's memoir excerpt of 21 April 1990, praising her 'steel mentality' after a six-hour beating by the Dutch police and contrasting it with migrant worker Kurtiah's abuse abroad. The heading also carries a correction: Trimurti born in Sawahan, Boyolali, 11 May 19
Bali Post, 30 Sept 1996, p. 1: at a youth seminar on the 'latent danger of communism' Amien Rais says Gerwani 'slashed' the generals; Taufiq Ismail cites S.K. Trimurti as ex-Gerwani; PRD branded 'new PKI'.