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GA-03338 1965-10-07 Berita Harian rel B

Komunis sembeleh keluarga panglima tentera Jogja (Communists slaughter family of Jogja army commander)

Communists slaughter family of Yogyakarta army commander (Berita Harian, 1965)

Berita Harian, 7 October 1965, p. 1: Radio Yogyakarta claims Col. Katamso's family was slaughtered; fighting at Klaten and Cirebon, where rebels included armed communist youth and Gerwani members; army paper's account of the seven officers' deaths (Yani, Suprapto, Haryono, Parman, Panjaitan, Sutoyo, Tendean) at Lubang

GA-03329 1965-10-15 Berita Harian rel A

Nasib 4 pegawai Divisi Diponegoro tidak di-ketahui (Gerwani and the generals' widows)

Fate of four Diponegoro Division officers unknown: Gerwani and the generals' widows (Berita Harian, 1965)

Berita Harian, 15 October 1965, p. 3, Reuters: troops capture local communist leaders in Serang, units search a communist's house in Jakarta, and unrest in Yogyakarta; reports claim 'more and more' Gerwani members tried to kidnap army officers' wives and, the previous night, to seize several generals' widows. An early

GA-03050 1970 rel B licensed

Youth and the Wane of Soekarno's Government

Youth and the Wane of Soekarno's Government (Paget, 1970)

Roger Paget's 1970 Cornell PhD thesis on how student and youth action groups, culminating in KAMI, emerged after 1 October 1965 and helped undermine Sukarno. Gerwani appears in several passages: action fronts demanded its banning (p. 44) and its offices were ransacked (p. 63); Herlina denounced it for not fighting Mala