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GA-02651 rel C

Mewaspadai Kebangkitan Komunis (ceramah audio)

Beware the Communist Revival (Audio Lecture)

Audio item (description only, no transcript): 'Mewaspadai Kebangkitan Komunis', a 55:44 Islamic lecture by Ustadz Ayip Syafruddin, broadcast by Radio Al I'tishom (tag date 2016), from the Internet Archive collection 'Waspada! Bahaya! Komunis dll.'. It warns against a supposed communist revival; an example of post-New O

GA-02617 1948-01 rel C licensed

NAACP Papers - Indonesia, Joint Action of Netherlands Women, All Asian Peoples Conference, Jan 1948 - May 1949

NAACP Papers: Indonesia, Joint Action of Netherlands Women, All Asian Peoples Conference (1948-49)

NAACP Papers, Part 14 (ProQuest): Indonesia file, January 1948 to May 1949. It holds the Action Conference on Indonesia (New York, 6 Dec 1947) papers, Walter White's cable to Nehru, Dutch Joint Action of Netherlands Women appeals on Dutch detainees and alleged forced concubinage in Republican territory, legal memoranda

GA-01549 1955-10-06 Asahi Shimbun rel B licensed

インドネシア婦人記者来日 (Indonesian women journalists visit Japan)

Indonesian women journalists visit Japan (Asahi Shimbun, 6 October 1955)

Asahi Shimbun (Tokyo evening edition, 6 Oct 1955, p. 3) item on Indonesian women journalists visiting Japan. OCR is nearly entirely scrambled; only 'Indonesia' and part of the name Herawati Diah are legible. Summary based on title; no Gerwani content visible.

GA-01550 1955-10-12 Asahi Shimbun rel B licensed

インドネシア婦人の生活 (The lives of Indonesian women)

The lives of Indonesian women (Asahi Shimbun, 12 October 1955)

Asahi Shimbun (Tokyo evening edition, 12 Oct 1955, p. 2) article on the lives of Indonesian women, apparently built around Herawati Diah's visit. OCR is largely scrambled; legible fragments include Jakarta, women's organisations, subsidy, Paris and school. Gerwani is not identifiable.

GA-01553 1957-11-14 Asahi Shimbun rel B licensed

(6)青年と婦人の解放(インドネシア代表)私は日本を見た (No. 6: Youth and women's liberation, Indonesian delegate, 'I saw Japan')

No. 6: Youth and women's liberation, Indonesian delegate, 'I saw Japan' (Asahi Shimbun, 14 November 1957)

Asahi Shimbun (Tokyo morning edition, 14 Nov 1957, p. 6), instalment 6 of 'I saw Japan' by an Indonesian delegate on youth and women's liberation. OCR is nearly unreadable (only Jakarta, women, Asia, Japan, China, Italy, France, Indonesian legible); summary is mostly from the title, and no Gerwani mention is visible.

GA-01554 1958-02-16 Asahi Shimbun rel B licensed

AA婦人会議 セイロン (Afro-Asian women's conference, Ceylon)

Afro-Asian women's conference, Ceylon (Asahi Shimbun, 16 February 1958)

Asahi Shimbun (Tokyo morning edition, 16 Feb 1958, p. 3): article on Afro-Asian women's conference; Ceylon. The OCR is almost entirely scrambled, so this summary rests on the title and a few legible words; no named Gerwani member or Gerwani mention is visible.

GA-01555 1958-02-24 Asahi Shimbun rel B licensed

AA婦人会議 セイロン (Afro-Asian women's conference, Ceylon)

Afro-Asian women's conference, Ceylon (Asahi Shimbun, 24 February 1958)

Asahi Shimbun (Tokyo evening edition, 24 Feb 1958, p. 3): article on Afro-Asian women's conference; Ceylon. The OCR is almost entirely scrambled, so this summary rests on the title and a few legible words; no named Gerwani member or Gerwani mention is visible.

GA-01540 1965-10-11 The Times of India rel B licensed

Country-wide hunt for Reds in Indonesia: weapons seized (The Times of India, 11 Oktober 1965)

Country-wide hunt for Reds in Indonesia: weapons seized (The Times of India, 11 October 1965)

The Times of India, 11 Oct 1965, p.11 (Times of India News Service, Reuter, AFP): country-wide hunt for Communists and weapons seized; 1,500 reported detained; mobs raid Njoto's and Aidit's houses; Radio Jakarta urges people to report members of the PKI, its youth and women's wings. A Muslim crowd ransacked a suburban

GA-01525 1965-10-15 The Hindustan Times rel A licensed

Jakarta women danced as generals were murdered (The Hindustan Times, 15 Oktober 1965)

Jakarta women danced as generals were murdered (The Hindustan Times, 15 October 1965)

The Hindustan Times, 15 Oct 1965: report of a police witness's account at Lubang Buaya that Communist women danced naked in a circle while six generals and a lieutenant (mistaken for Nasution) were tortured to death, with torn-out fingernails and faces mutilated. Gerwani is not named, but this is an early instance of t

GA-01528 1965-12-08 The Hindustan Times rel C licensed

The Masses Did Not Rise (The Hindustan Times, 8 Desember 1965)

The masses did not rise (The Hindustan Times, 8 December 1965)

The Hindustan Times, 8 Dec 1965, Dennis Bloodworth (Singapore), 'PKI Debacle I: The Masses Did Not Rise': analysis of why the PKI collapsed after the 1 Oct coup: overrated membership, reliance on Sukarno and on army and air force penetration, no general strike, SOBSI dissolving. It reports Untung's alleged claim that m

GA-01544 1974 Vashti's Voice rel B licensed

Vashti's Voice, Women's Liberation Newspaper, Issues 6-9 (1974-1975)

Vashti's Voice, Women's Liberation Newspaper, issues 6-9 (1974-1975)

Issues 6-9 (March 1974 onward) of Vashti's Voice, a Melbourne women's liberation newspaper, covering rape crisis, abortion, women's theatre and conferences. The only Indonesia item found is a page of Jakarta family-planning posters in Indonesian; no legible mention of Gerwani survives in the poor OCR.

GA-02696 1974-06 TAPOL rel B

TAPOL Bulletin No. 5, June 1974

TAPOL Bulletin no. 5, June 1974 (London campaign for Indonesian political prisoners). Covers mass transfers of tapols to Central Java workcamps (Nusakambangan, Cilacap), British and Australian policy, IGGI aid, press bans and the January 1974 Malari aftermath. A short item, 'Ex-Gerwani Members Also in Trouble' (p.5), r

GA-02695 1975 TAPOL rel A

TAPOL Bulletin no. 9, Maret 1975: Women on Trial

TAPOL Bulletin no. 9, March 1975: Women on Trial

TAPOL Bulletin no. 9 (March 1975) front page 'Women on Trial': photo of Sulami, Sudjinah, Sri Ambar Rukmiati and Suharti Harsono at their 3 Feb 1975 trial for subversion, with a Lubang Buaya sewing-and-cooking allegation. Early international attention to Gerwani trials.

GA-00274 1975-07-30 Tharunka rel A

Indonesian Women (Tharunka, 30 Jul 1975)

Indonesian Women (Tharunka, 30 July 1975)

Tharunka (UNSW student paper), 30 July 1975, p. 8, article 'Indonesian Women' on women political prisoners after 1965. It describes Gerwani as the largest left women's organisation, targeted by a press campaign depicting members as sex-maniacs and Lubang Buaya participants, and banned in October 1965. It reports at lea

GA-00275 1975-07-30 Tharunka rel A

Indonesian Women: The Banned Women's Organisation (Tharunka, 30 Jul 1975)

Indonesian Women: The Banned Women's Organisation (Tharunka, 30 July 1975)

Tharunka (UNSW student paper), 30 July 1975, p. 8, clean OCR of the article 'Indonesian Women: The Banned Women's Organisation' (same article as GA-00274). It presents Gerwani as unaffiliated with the PKI, then attacked in 1965 by press stories of 'Gerwani prostitutes', 'obscene sex-dancing' and genital mutilation of g

GA-02712 1980-01 TAPOL rel A

TAPOL Bulletin No. 37, January 1980 (Indonesia's Political Trials)

TAPOL Bulletin No. 37, January 1980: Indonesia's Political Trials

TAPOL Bulletin no. 37 (London, January 1980): editorial on the end of KOPKAMTIB's release plan, plus Julie Southwood's long study of 1,014 political trials since 1966. It notes the 1965 Lubang Buaya claim that communist women castrated the generals, and the 1975 subversion trial of Gerwani's Sulami and Sudjinah, with S

GA-02722 1989-08 TAPOL rel C

TAPOL Bulletin No. 94, August 1989

TAPOL Bulletin no. 94 (London, Aug 1989), mostly on East Timor (new arrests, Prabowo-led operations, Bishop Belo's UN letter, asylum seekers), student trials in Yogyakarta, Kedung Ombo, Lampung evictions, forestry and population control. Gerwani is not mentioned. Relevant context: ex-tapols' 'ET' identity cards and 'cl

GA-02724 1995-12 TAPOL rel C

TAPOL Bulletin No. 132, Desember 1995

TAPOL Bulletin No. 132, December 1995

TAPOL Bulletin no. 132 (December 1995), London-based human rights newsletter, mostly on East Timor (Xanana Gusmao interview, embassy asylum bids), Sri-Bintang Pamungkas's trial, labour unrest and Freeport. Relevant to 1965: 'The spectre haunting Suharto' on the regime's 'formless organisations' communist myth (p.13-16)

GA-02672 2017 rel C

Data dan Fakta Kebangkitan PKI (ceramah audio)

Data and Facts on the Revival of the PKI (Audio Lectures, 2017)

Audio item (description only, no transcript): 'Data dan Fakta Kebangkitan PKI', a 3:12:35 recording of lectures by Alfian Tanjung, Rizieq Shihab and Kivlan Zen, tagged Aksi Bela Islam III (2017), hosted on archive.org. It argues for an alleged revival of the PKI; relevant as contemporary anti-communist propaganda. No G