Anonymous 2010 Word compilation 'Kitab Merah G30S-PKI' of 82 online articles, mostly Tempo special reports on Aidit, Njoto, Sjam and Untung plus testimonies such as Hersri Setiawan's. A revisionist-leaning dossier despite its anti-communist archive label.
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
Undated photograph from the Yayasan Idayu albums (Perpusnas Khastara) captioned as Ibu Dra. SK. Trimurti giving a talk on the relationship between the labour movement and the women's movement. Shows Trimurti as a speaker on labour and women's organising; Gerwani is not mentioned in the caption. Description based on cap
Undated photograph from the Yayasan Idayu albums (Perpusnas Khastara), same series as image 03, captioned as Ibu Dra. SK. Trimurti lecturing on the relationship between the labour movement and the women's movement. Gerwani is not mentioned in the caption. Description based on caption only.
Undated photograph from the S.K. Trimurti albums (Perpusnas Khastara), captioned as a PDI campaign rally at Lapangan Banteng with speakers Moh. Isnaeni, Dra. SK. Trimurti and Wilopo. It shows Trimurti campaigning for the PDI under the New Order; Gerwani is not mentioned. Date unknown; description based on caption only.
Soviet Woman, 30 Oct 1946, pp. 55-58: Nina Bondareva's article on women and children in colonial countries (India, Egypt, Indonesia, Indo-China), with Olga Khvalebnova on Albania's women. The Indonesia section, pre-Gerwani, praises the republic, notes a woman minister of social welfare, a women's congress at Madiun fed
WIDF Bulletin, 1947: French Friends of Peace conference, plus an 'Indonesia' item quoting a letter from the Secretariat of the Indonesian Women's Congress on the Dutch colonial war. It says all women's organisations back the Republic, women take part in the fighting, thanks Dutch women's groups for protesting, and asks
Long article in the Dutch communist daily De Waarheid (15 Jan 1947) by its "Indonesian collaborator" assessing support for the Linggarjati draft in the Indonesian provisional parliament: Masjumi and PNI divided or opposed, while the PKI, Partai Sosialis, Pesindo, Christian parties, Partai Buruh, Perwari and BTI back it
Nieuw Utrechtsch Dagblad, 17 January 1947, p. 2: list drawn up by the Republican paper De Patriot of Indonesian groups for and against the Linggadjati draft agreement. Perwari, PKI, Sobsi, BTI and the Partai Sosialis are listed for; Masjumi, PNI and Partai Wanita Rakjat against. Gerwani/Gerwis (founded later) does not
De Noord-Ooster report (4 Mar 1947) on the Indonesian parliament's debate on the Linggadjati accord, with a delegate of "the Indonesian women's organisation" opposing talks with the Dutch, PNI criticism of the cabinet, and comment on van Mook, Sukarno and Sjahrir. The women's delegate is not named reliably; Gerwani did
Het Nieuws (Algemeen Dagblad) item (29 Apr 1947, p.1) listing the 1947 working committee of the KNIP (Republic's provisional parliament) by party: BTI, Partai Sosialis, PKI (Njoto, Dr Roestam), Partai Buruh (including 'Soewarti'), Masjumi, PNI and group representatives. Mejuffrouw Soesilowati is named for the girls' le
Algemeen Indisch Dagblad (1947-07-04) lists new Indonesian Republic ministers of state. Mrs. K. Trimurti (S.K. Trimurti) of the Partai Buruh Indonesia is Minister of Labour with Wilopo (PNI) as deputy; others include Wikana, Hamengkubuwono IX and Maruto Darusman (PKI).
Het Dagblad (Batavia) item, 4 Jul 1947, p.1, on the new Sjarifuddin cabinet. In the passage on ministers it notes that Mrs Trimurti (S.K. Trimurti, Partai Buruh) replaces Ulfah Santoso, the only woman minister in the previous cabinet, as minister of state for labour affairs. The rest concerns other ministers and party
Het Dagblad (Batavia) article (4 Jul 1947, p.1) listing the new Republican cabinet under Amir Sjarifuddin, with ministers and vice-ministers by party. It lists Mrs K. Trimurti as minister of state for labour affairs, with vice-minister Wilopo, and Wikana for youth affairs. Useful for Trimurti's appointment; no Gerwani
Het Nieuws (Algemeen Dagblad) report (4 Jul 1947, p.1): Sukarno addressed the new Sjarifuddin cabinet, hoping for a 'policy of peace'. The cabinet has 33 ministers and vice-ministers; the minister of labour, Miss Trimurti, is the only woman member. Notes Wondoamiseno's appointment and Sultan of Yogyakarta's retention.
Het Parool (4 Jul 1947, p.17): complete list of the new republican cabinet under Amir Sjarifuddin, including Trimoerti as minister of labour, Wikana for youth, Wondoamiseno for the interior after being released over Sjahrir's abduction. Notes Dr Boediardjo's resignation and Sukarno's swearing-in speech hoping for a pol
Algemeen Indisch Dagblad (1947-07-05, Antara, Yogyakarta, 4 July): interviews with new ministers. Labour Minister Mrs. S.K. Trimurti says the labour organisation must be strengthened and led to the national battle front, notes production shortfalls from Dutch and Japanese destruction, and wages depend on consumption; E
Nieuwe Courant, 7 July 1947, p. 2: S.K. Trimurti, Minister of Labour in the Republican government, tells Antara the labour organisation must be strengthened and led to the national fighting front, notes production shortages from Dutch and Japanese destruction, and says wages must consider total consumption and availabl
De Heerenveensche Koerier, 8 July 1947, summarising a Vrij Nederland exposé on the Dutch 'purge' in South Sulawesi (Dec 1946-Mar 1947), with sworn statements and over 20,000 reported dead. It quotes a letter from the women of Makassar protesting the soldiers' methods, signed on behalf of a women's social association by
Sunday Worker, 10 Aug 1947, p. 8: the OCR contains only a crossword puzzle (clues and grid), so the catalogued article on S. K. Trimurti as Indonesia's woman Minister of Labor cannot be read or checked. No Gerwani/Gerwis content is verifiable.
Short Het Dagblad (Batavia) item (2 Dec 1947, p.2) on the first anniversary of SOBSI, attended by President Sukarno, premier Amir Sjarifuddin and labour minister Mrs S.K. Trimurti. Sukarno's message said workers have a strong ideology and must avoid anarchy and capitalism. Context on Trimurti's labour role; no Gerwani
WIDF documents volume (Budapest, December 1948) for the Conference of the Women of Asia: the report of the WIDF commission that toured South-East Asia in February-April 1948, plus country reports (Viet Nam, India, Malaya, China, Korea, Africa, Mongolia and others). Indonesia is mentioned only in passing: the commission
WIDF 1948 article describing an international exhibition of women's struggles (China, Palestine, Egypt, Iran, Vietnam, India, Indonesia). The Indonesia panel shows women fighting Dutch and Japanese colonial oppression for independence, with photographs of wartime hardship, and affirms Indonesian women's stand beside me
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
Berliner Zeitung, 7 March 1948, p. 1: front-page report "80-Millionen-Frauenprotest gegen Krieg" on the WIDF (IDFF) appeal for International Women's Day, issued in the name of 80 million women from 48 countries. It denounces US imperialist war-making and calls on women to protest the war in Vietnam and Indonesia. Indon
Neues Deutschland, 7 March 1948, p. 1: the WIDF (IDFF) appeal for International Women's Day. Gerwani is not mentioned; Indonesia appears only twice, when French, Italian and Dutch women are urged to protest the war in Vietnam and Indonesia and when 'heroic women' of Indonesia and other fighting countries are assured of
De Waarheid (8 Mar 1948) International Women's Day piece celebrating women's courage under occupation and capitalism, citing the WIDF appeal for peace, democracy and social justice. It voices Dutch women's demand that their sons be brought back from Indonesia. Concerns the Dutch communist women's movement; no Indonesia
De Locomotief, 13 May 1948: satirical column by an 'Indonesian collaborator' on life in the Republic. It says former Minister of Labour S.K. Trimurti, after the fall of the Amir cabinet, is 'a wiser but sadder woman' who no longer speaks publicly, and that Republican women were reluctant to speak at meetings. Hostile,
De Waarheid report (9 Jul 1948) on the WIDF international women's exhibition in Paris (12 Jun-18 Jul, 42 countries). The Dutch Women's Movement stand had a section on Indonesia, opposing colonial war; the article contrasts Western capitalism with Eastern Europe, China and the USSR. No Indonesian women's group is named.
Bredasche Courant, 21 Sept 1948: Madiun-affair report quoting Musso's radio speech that the revolution is under national-communist leadership, claiming 20 million Indonesian women were widowed by romusha labour and calling Sukarno and Hatta servants of Japan and America. Also reports refugees fleeing to Dutch lines. Ge