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GA-00666 1951-08-20 De Nieuwsgier rel A

Arrestaties in Oost-Java: in Surabaja zeven journalisten aangehouden (Arrests in East Java)

Arrests in East Java: seven journalists detained in Surabaya

De Nieuwsgier, 20 Aug 1951: report on the August 1951 Sukiman government sweep in East Java: 26 detained in Surabaya, including editors, SOBSI and PKI leaders, and Mrs Parjani Ilham, chairwoman of Gerwis. Police seized Mao, Lenin and Stalin pictures. Officials say the arrests do not target a particular ideology. Early

GA-03038 1983 rel B licensed

Harian Rakjat, Daily Newspaper of the Communist Party of Indonesia: Its History and Role (MA thesis, Australian National University, 1983)

Harian Rakjat, Daily Newspaper of the Communist Party of Indonesia (Groves, 1983)

Kerry Groves's ANU MA thesis (1983) on Harian Rakjat, the PKI daily: its stance on press freedom, administration, polemics (e.g. with Merdeka, 1964), content and treatment of leaders, drawing on Indonesian sources and interviews with ex-prisoners. Gerwani appears in Chapter VI (pp.142-149) on the paper's women's column