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GA-01647 1951-08-15 Merdeka rel A

Merdeka, 15 Agustus 1951

Merdeka, 15 August 1951: Gerwis central board resolutions

Merdeka, 15 Agustus 1951 (hlm. 2): Antara report on Gerwis central board resolutions: gifts for victims of the revolution and colonial wars including those of the 'September 1948 affair', and an education programme of rebuilt schools and village people's schools.

GA-00515 1953-08-25 Algemeen Indisch Dagblad rel B

De Vrije Pers: Betoging tegen strafproces (Pers Bebas: demonstrasi menentang pengadilan)

The Free Press: demonstration against criminal trial

Algemeen Indisch Dagblad (1953-08-25, p. 2): in Surabaya the trial of 42 students for wrecking the Vrije Pers offices opened; thousands of students and pupils demonstrated against the prosecution, joined, per Harian Umum, by Gerwis, Pemuda Rakjat and SOBSI. Banners demanded a press law, abolition of Dutch-language use

GA-00689 1953-08-25 De Nieuwsgier rel B

Demonstratie te Surabaja van Panitia aksi De Vrije Pers (Demonstration in Surabaya for the De Vrije Pers action committee)

Surabaya demonstration over the De Vrije Pers wrecking trial

De Nieuwsgier, 25 Aug 1953: in Surabaya the trial opens of 42 students over the April wrecking of De Vrije Pers; thousands of students and pupils demonstrated, with Gerwis, Pemuda Rakjat and SOBSI also taking part, demanding dropped charges, a press law, abolition of Dutch-language use and limits on Dutch dailies. A US

GA-00591 1953-08-26 Arnhemsche Courant rel A

De vernieling van 'De Vrije Pers' (The destruction of 'De Vrije Pers')

The destruction of 'De Vrije Pers'

Arnhemsche Courant, 26 Aug 1953: a small item says thousands of students and pupils, backed by the left-wing union SOBSI and Gerwis, demonstrated in Surabaya during the trial of 42 students over the wrecking of the Dutch-language daily De Vrije Pers, demanding dismissal of the case and curbs on the Dutch press. Rest of

GA-00654 1955-12-27 De Locomotief rel C

Universitaire examen (University examinations)

University examinations: Jakarta medical faculty pass list

De Locomotief, 27 Dec 1955: list of passes in Jakarta medical faculty examinations; 'Miss Soetanti Aidit' passed the first part of her exam. Gerwani is not mentioned and the item does not state she is D.N. Aidit's relative.

GA-01452 1957-01-30 Harian Rakjat rel A

Laporan harus wajar: Tentang pendidikan di Sovyet Uni, oleh Ny. Mudigdio (Harian Rakjat, 30 Januari 1957, hlm. 3)

The report must be fair: on education in the Soviet Union, by Mrs Mudigdio (Harian Rakjat, 30 January 1957)

Harian Rakjat, 30 Jan 1957, p. 3: the page carries only the headline 'Laporan harus wajar - Tentang pendidikan di Sovyet Uni' by Ny. Mudigdio; the article body is not recoverable from the OCR. Page 4 advertises Soviet booklets on women's right to education. Page 1 covers Hatta and the Konsepsi Presiden debate. Mudigdio

GA-01556 1958-05-30 Asahi Shimbun rel B licensed

インドネシアの母親学校 (Indonesia's mothers' school)

Indonesia's mothers' school

Asahi Shimbun (Tokyo evening edition, 30 May 1958, p. 2): article on Indonesia's mothers' school, apparently founded by a woman whose name is illegible. 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-01789 1959-11-09 Renmin Ribao rel A licensed

摩首相重申必须撤出外国军队和基地 (Moroccan PM reiterates foreign troops and bases must go; Indonesian opinion attacks US over sailors' dance party)

Moroccan PM on foreign bases; Indonesian opinion attacks US over sailors' dance party (Renmin Ribao, 9 November 1959)

Renmin Ribao, 9 Nov 1959, p. 6: multi-item foreign-news column. The Indonesia item says the Gerwani Central Committee condemned an invitation from Jakarta's American Women's Association to Indonesian women students for a dance with US Seventh Fleet sailors as leading to moral corruption and sullying national dignity; t

GA-01790 1959-11-09 Renmin Ribao rel A licensed

摩首相重申必须撤出外国军队和基地 (Moroccan PM reiterates foreign troops and bases must go; Indonesian opinion attacks US over sailors' dance party)

Moroccan PM on foreign bases; Indonesian opinion attacks US over sailors' dance party (Renmin Ribao, 9 November 1959)

Renmin Ribao, 9 Nov 1959, p. 6: multi-item foreign-news column. The Indonesia item says the Gerwani Central Committee condemned an invitation from Jakarta's American Women's Association to Indonesian women students for a dance with US Seventh Fleet sailors as leading to moral corruption and sullying national dignity; t

GA-01839 1962-02-17 Renmin Ribao rel A licensed

抗议美国支持荷兰殖民者霸占西伊里安 (Protest at US support for Dutch seizure of West Irian; Gerwani letter to Robert Kennedy)

Protest at US support for Dutch seizure of West Irian; Gerwani letter to Robert Kennedy (Renmin Ribao, 17 February 1962)

Renmin Ribao, 17 Feb 1962, p. 3 (Xinhua, Jakarta): during US Attorney General Robert Kennedy's visit, Indonesian student bodies, trade unions and Gerwani protest US support for Dutch 'self-determination' on West Irian; Gerwani delivered a protest letter to the US embassy. Students shout 'Recover West Irian' at Gadjah M

GA-01840 1962-02-17 Renmin Ribao rel A licensed

抗议美国支持荷兰殖民者霸占西伊里安 (Protest at US support for Dutch seizure of West Irian; Gerwani letter to Robert Kennedy)

Protest at US support for Dutch seizure of West Irian; Gerwani letter to Robert Kennedy (Renmin Ribao, 17 February 1962)

Renmin Ribao, 17 Feb 1962, p. 3 (Xinhua, Jakarta): during US Attorney General Robert Kennedy's visit, Indonesian student bodies, trade unions and Gerwani protest US support for Dutch 'self-determination' on West Irian; Gerwani delivered a protest letter to the US embassy. Students shout 'Recover West Irian' at Gadjah M

GA-02616 1965-11 rel B licensed

LBJ National Security File - Indonesia: communist parties and internal politics, Nov 1965 - May 1966

LBJ National Security File: Indonesia, Communist Parties and Internal Politics, Nov 1965-May 1966

LBJ Library National Security File, Indonesia country file (vol. VI): US Embassy Jakarta cables and withdrawal sheets, mainly December 1965 to May 1966, on the army's moves against the PKI, Sukarno's speeches, student demonstrations and Suharto's rise. Gerwani appears twice. Embtel 2077 (17 Jan 1966) reports Bogor wall

GA-01684 1965-11-12 Peking Review rel C

Peking Review No. 46, 12 November 1965: anti-communist and anti-China activities of Indonesian right-wing forces

Peking Review no. 46, 12 November 1965: anti-communist and anti-China activities of Indonesian right-wing forces

Peking Review Vol. VIII No. 46, 12 November 1965, a Chinese weekly. Contents: October Revolution anniversary, the Wang Chieh campaign, the Renmin Ribao/Hongqi refutation of the CPSU 'united action', and Indonesia reports on the anti-China current, a Chinese protest to Jakarta and 'rabid anti-communist' activities of ri

GA-02636 1965-12-16 rel C

Notes of meeting between Hysni Kapo and Chinese Ambassador Xu Jianguo, 16 December 1965

Notes of Meeting between Hysni Kapo and Chinese Ambassador Xu Jianguo, 16 Dec 1965

English text of the Wilson Center Digital Archive item: notes by Albanian Party of Labour secretary Hysni Kapo of his meeting with Chinese ambassador Xu Jianguo, 16 Dec 1965 (translated by Elidor Mehilli). Mostly on Polish Marxist-Leninists; one passage offers to host Indonesian communist students and the PKI's Europe

GA-01672 1966-10-08 Press rel B

Students Demand Trial for Mrs Hartini Sukarno (Press, Christchurch, 8 October 1966)

Students Demand Trial for Mrs Hartini Sukarno (Press, Christchurch, 8 October 1966), photograph clipping

Photograph-only clipping from the Press (Christchurch), 8 Oct 1966: demonstrators with banners and flags in Jakarta, one banner partly legible; illustrates the students' demand to try Hartini Sukarno for patronage of Gerwani. No caption text in this clipping.

GA-01673 1966-10-08 Press rel A

Students Demand Trial for Mrs Hartini Sukarno (Press, Christchurch, 8 October 1966)

Students Demand Trial for Mrs Hartini Sukarno (Press, Christchurch, 8 October 1966), caption clipping

Caption clipping from the Press (Christchurch), 8 Oct 1966: anti-Communist students in Jakarta demand Hartini Sukarno's arrest and trial for economic deviation, affiliation with Communist leaders and patronage of Gerwani, 'whose members are said to have played a major role' in the killing of six Army generals in Octobe

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-02708 1978-04 TAPOL rel A

TAPOL Bulletin No. 27, April 1978 (dengan Special Supplement tentang pers)

TAPOL Bulletin No. 27, April 1978, with Special Supplement on the Press

TAPOL Bulletin no. 27 (London, April 1978) with a Special Supplement on press freedom. Covers student repression, prisoner-release figures, trials and a Buru letter. The supplement notes that in 1965–66 the press published sensational reports of sexual orgies by leftwing organisations, and its list of jailed journalist

GA-02715 1982-07 TAPOL rel C

TAPOL Bulletin No. 52, July 1982

TAPOL Bulletin no. 52 (London, July 1982, 20 pp.): East Timor famine and the Nordland report, West Papua and transmigration, Dutch arms sales, Muslim political trials and torture, press bans (Tempo, Pelita), student repression, and an Atmakusumah book review noting that 46 of 163 newspapers were banned in October 1965.