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GA-02018 1965-12-09 Berita Harian rel B

Berita Harian, 9 Disember 1965: Wanita yang dipenjarakan (Kurnipi, UPI)

Berita Harian, 9 Dec 1965: imprisoned woman (UPI photographer's scene)

Berita Harian, 9 Dec 1965 (UPI photographer Kurnipi, lead only). First-person scene with an imprisoned woman crying that her children are at home and asking why she is held and for how long. Matched on Gerwani; the lead does not name her organisation.

GA-02027 1967-12-13 Eastern Sun rel B

Eastern Sun, 13 December 1967: Detained Communists build their own prisons

Eastern Sun, 13 Dec 1967: detained communists build their own prisons

Eastern Sun, 13 Dec 1967 (by Soeharjono, lead only). Thousands of detained Communists are building brick-and-bamboo prisons because of acute prison-space shortage and lack of funds to feed some 60,000 rounded up after the coup. Lead does not mention Gerwani; matched on a query about Aidit's wife.

GA-00746 1973-04-02 De Volkskrant rel B

Geen botertje (Not a bit of butter: press freedom in Indonesia)

Not a bit of butter: press freedom and imprisoned writers in Indonesia

Fragment of a De Volkskrant piece (2 Apr 1973) on press freedom in Suharto's Indonesia, listing imprisoned writers and journalists (Bandaharo Harahap, Oei Hay Djun, Mrs. Sugiarti Siswadi, Mrs. Rusijati, Mrs. Lies Sukatno and others) and rebutting H.B. Jassin's claim of press freedom. Gerwani is not named.

GA-01522 1973-10-11 The Guardian rel B licensed

Ten torture cases to be used by Amnesty (The Guardian, 11 Oktober 1973)

Ten torture cases to be used by Amnesty (The Guardian, 11 October 1973)

The Guardian, 11 Oct 1973, p.8, Peter Cole: Amnesty International launches Prisoner of Conscience Week with ten emblematic torture cases. One is an Indonesian woman, Mrs Sri Ambar[...] (surname cut off in OCR), head of the women's department of the SOBSI trade union federation, who after arrest in 1966 was stripped nak

GA-01533 1979-10-14 The Observer rel B licensed

'Children are tortured' (The Observer, 14 Oktober 1979)

'Children are tortured' (The Observer, 14 October 1979)

The Observer, 14 Oct 1979, p.2, Ian Mather, 'Children are tortured': on an Amnesty International report on torture of children in many countries. For Indonesia it reports that the daughter of Sri Ambar, a woman trade unionist, was tortured in her mother's presence and disappeared, that many children arrested in 1965 re