Photographs of Diorama Installation by the Keluarga Arca Sculptors, c. 1980-81
Seventeen photographs of the sculptors' group Keluarga Arca installing miniature dioramas (Yani abduction, Lubang Buaya training, recovery of bodies) c. 1980-81, plus later life-size figures. Visual evidence of how the Paseban dioramas were made.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 12 March 1966 (Supersemar Edition)
Angkatan Bersendjata, 12 Mar 1966, the Supersemar issue, with Sukarno's 8 March International Women's Day address, Muslimat NU's Mahmudah Mawardi demanding a PKI ban 'because women feel the effects', and the decree dissolving the PKI.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 14 May 1966
Angkatan Bersendjata, 14 Mei 1966. Front-page report of Ibu Soeharto telling armed forces wives to adopt their husbands' ideology: 'let it not happen that an ABRI wife becomes a member of Gerwani'.
Berita Yudha, 11 June 1966
Berita Yudha, 11 Juni 1966. Front page: Lt-Gen. Suharto at Perwari's 10th congress, where he is honoured 'Penyelamat Revolusi' and claims 40% of Central Java army units had been infiltrated; Gerwani mentioned.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 9 July 1966
Angkatan Bersendjata, 9 Juli 1966. 'Istri-istri ABRI turun tangan': Ny. Nasution says army wives take over social work, hampered earlier by 'Gestapu/PKI such as Gerwani', illustrating the displacement of Gerwani's welfare activities by military wives.
Berita Yudha, 4 October 1966
Berita Yudha, 4 Oktober 1966. Report of a rally of some 3,500 women of KOWANI, KAWI and BPOW at Lubang Buaya (3 Oct) where, led by Ibu Tien Soeharto, they swore to 'eradicate the gerwani/pki mentality'; Ibu Soeharto says they 'practised obscenities without limit'.
Berita Yudha, 5 October 1966: interview with Ibu Tien Soeharto
Berita Yudha, 5 Oktober 1966: wawancara Ibu Tien Soeharto. Armed Forces Day issue with a front-page interview with Ibu Tien Soeharto, 'May our children not inherit the barbarity and immorality of Gerwani', and Perwari conferring 'Penyelamat Revolusi' on Suharto.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 18 October 1966
Angkatan Bersendjata, 18 Oktober 1966. Minister Soetjipto says the 'Old Order' denied that Gerwani and Pemuda Rakyat 'immorally' trained at Lubang Buaya while the New Order has found photo and film documentation made by participants.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 21 April 1967 (Hari Kartini). Small Antara item: an RPKAD climbing team on Merapi found a skeleton locals said was 'probably a woman member of Gerwani' who fled arrest; Kartini Day editorial.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 27 April 1967. South Kalimantan governor Aberani Sulaiman says mothers must 'eradicate women of the Gerwani type, the Lubang Buaya type' to realise 'true Indonesian women'; KOWANI Kartini meeting.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 9 July 1967 (Weekly Edition)
Angkatan Bersendjata, 9 Juli 1967 (edisi Mingguan). Family column 'Jadilah seorang wanita yang baik' defines womanhood through motherhood and invokes 'how savage and cruel Gerwani women' were in torturing the generals, using the slander as a moral counterexample.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 1 October 1967 (Weekly Edition)
Angkatan Bersendjata, 1 Oktober 1967 (edisi Mingguan). Second-anniversary issue with a front-page lead 'Dianiaja' alleging the generals were tortured and mutilated and contradicting Sukarno; the richest Lubang Buaya slander item in this run.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 21 November 1967. 'Operasi Tjakra' in North Sumatra: 215 PKI members arrested for an alleged 'Gerakan 12 Nopember'; Pemuda Rakyat, BTI and Gerwani members at Tanjung Morawa and 'women members of Gerwani' among those arrested.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 24 February 1968
Angkatan Bersendjata, 24 Februari 1968. Padang report: Kodim 0306 orders monthly head-shaving of all Gestapu/PKI category A, B and C members (at least 7,000) 'to foster awareness', 'except Gerwani members'.
Berita Yudha, 18 March 1968
Berita Yudha, 18 Maret 1968. Operation Sambar Raga in Surabaya (Jan–13 Mar 1968) arrested 79 members and leaders of CC PKI, SOBSI, Gerwani, Pemuda Rakyat and CGMI, alleged to be organised in a 'Tri Komando Kota'.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 27 March 1968
Angkatan Bersendjata, 27 Maret 1968. Security report 'PKI malam' arrests during the MPRS session; reports the capture on 22 March 1968 in Tanjung Priok of Nj. Soeharti So[...], a Gerwani figure disguised as a Qur'an teacher.
Berita Yudha, 14 June 1968: 2 PKI members of Kebon Melati seized
Berita Yudha, 14 Juni 1968. '2 Anggota PKI Kebon Melati dibekuk': Hajati alias 'ibu Imam', ex-chair of Gerwani Ranting Baturaja, arrested in Tanah Abang; allegedly 'protected 11 Gerwani members'.
Berita Yudha, 24 June 1968: 2 Gerwani activists and 10 PKI cell members arrested
Berita Yudha, 24 Juni 1968: '2 Aktivis Gerwani dan 10 orang sel PKI ditangkap'. Kodim 0504 arrested Suprijanti (21) and Turminah (23), 'ex-Gerwani activists' who allegedly 'confessed' to helping torture and kill the generals at Lubang Buaya at a young age.
Berita Yudha, 25 June 1968
Berita Yudha, 25 Juni 1968. Front page prints portrait photographs of Tuminah (23) and Suprijanti (21) as 'ex-Gerwani activists' who 'confessed' to helping kill the generals, the visual follow-up to the 24 June report.
Suara Merdeka, 26 June 1968, p. 1: Genjer-genjer trainer at Lubang Buaya arrested
Suara Merdeka front page, 26 June 1968: an Antara/Pendam V Jaya report that four alleged PKI members were arrested in Jakarta, including Titi Suwarti, said to have joined training at Lubang Buaya and taught Genjer-genjer. Shows New Order framing of women's alleged role at Lubang Buaya.
Suara Merdeka, 29 June 1968, p. 1: 'New-style PKI' arrested in Purworejo; Darmini labelled Gerwani
Suara Merdeka front page, 29 June 1968: Purworejo correspondent reports the arrest of an alleged 'new-style PKI' underground and Darmini, 28, labelled a Gerwani member, with lurid detail on her and a housemate's pregnancies. Typical New Order sexualised portrayal of Gerwani women.
Berita Yudha, 22 July 1968: Kodim 0501 arrests 18 G30S/PKI members
Berita Yudha, 22 Juli 1968. 'Kodim 0501 tangkap 18 angg. G 30 S/PKI': among 18 arrested in Central Jakarta (1–18 July 1968) are four Gerwani women including ex-treasurer Siti Munidjar and ex-chair Djuriah.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 16 August 1968
Angkatan Bersendjata, 16 Agustus 1968. Operasi Trisula commander Col. Witarmin reports the PKI underground in South Blitar crushed and lists captured leaders including five women, among them Nj. Gatot Sutarjo, 'chair of Gerwani'.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 21 August 1968: 'PKI Exploits Women'
Angkatan Bersendjata, 21 Agustus 1968: 'PKI eksploitir wanita2'. Part X of the 'Blitar Selatan' serial on Operasi Trisula: a 'love story' about a 'Red Women's Detachment' and profiles of three women arrested in South Blitar as 'tools of the PKI'.
Berita Yudha, 23 August 1968: The romantic PKI woman journalist
Berita Yudha, 23 Agustus 1968: 'Wartawan Wanita PKI jg romantis'. Feature on Sri Sukatno, 'ex-chair of Gerwani Jakarta', journalist and wife of a Pemuda Rakyat leader, after Operasi Trisula; sensational, romanticised gendered portrayal.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 24 August 1968
Angkatan Bersendjata, 24 Agustus 1968. Part XIII of the 'Blitar Selatan' serial tells the story of Sri Liestyowati (Lies) Sukatno, a 'PKI/Gerwani figure' and wife of a Pemuda Rakyat leader, with gendered and sensational claims about her beauty and demands in the forest.
Berita Yudha, 27 August 1968
Berita Yudha, 27 Agustus 1968. First instalment of 'Mengungkap petualangan P.K.I. Gaja Baru di Djatim' with a photo captioned 'Gerwani members of East Java hit by Operasi Trisula', naming Nj. Kartini as East Java Gerwani chair.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 30 August 1968
Angkatan Bersendjata, 30 Agustus 1968. MPRS Secretariat corrects a claim that 'Nj. Chasanah Mansjur of the Gerwani faction' was a detained PKI ringleader: no Gerwani member sat in the 1960–65 MPRS; Chasanah Mansjur is a Muslimat NU member.
Berita Yudha, 30 August 1968
Berita Yudha, 30 Agustus 1968. Instalment IV of 'PKI Gaja Baru di Djatim': portrays Nj. Kartini, 'Gerwani deputy chair before G30S', disguised as a poor village woman and training cadres in forest 'schools'.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 5 September 1968: 'Kediri Regent Recalled'
Angkatan Bersendjata, 5 September 1968: 'Bupati Kediri direcall'. The Kediri regent, a police lieutenant colonel, is recalled because his wife was 'cultivated very successfully by the Gerwani figure Nafsiah'; police say they never rehabilitate those implicated in G30S.