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GA-02620 1952-05-30 rel A licensed

Analysis of Communist propaganda in Indonesia (OIR 5714.7, 1952)

Analysis of Communist Propaganda in Indonesia (OIR 5714.7, 1952)

OSS/State Department report OIR 5714.7 (30 May 1952) analysing PKI propaganda: party structure, front organisations, relations with international communism and themes. Names Gerwis under Mrs Mudigdo as the communist vehicle competing with Kowani for women, and BTI under S. Sardjono; appendices cover publishing, films,

GA-02064 1954-06-20 Izvestiia rel B licensed

Izvestiia, 20 June 1954: 'V Indonezii' (travel notes of a Soviet women's delegate)

Izvestiia, 20 Jun 1954: 'In Indonesia', travel notes of a Soviet women's delegate

Izvestiia, 20 Jun 1954. Travel notes by a member of the Soviet women's delegation (Anti-Fascist Committee of Soviet Women) touring Indonesia: Jakarta, Boyolali rally where Gerwani representatives and the woman who invited them questioned the guests about the USSR, plantation conditions near Bandung, Round Table agreeme

GA-00101 1964 Api Kartini rel C licensed

Dari Tavip: Berdiri di atas Kaki Sendiri

From Tavip: Standing on Our Own Feet

Api Kartini (1964) excerpt from Sukarno's Tavip (17 August 1964) address on landreform: demands implementation of UUPA and the sharecropping law within promised deadlines, endorses Landreform Courts, urges officials to consult peasants, links food self-sufficiency to land reform, and supports abolishing IGO/IGOB and im

GA-02380 1964-10-23 rel B licensed

CIA Office of Current Intelligence, Sukarno and the Communists (Special Report SC 00642/64A, 23 October 1964)

CIA Special Report SC 00642/64A, 23 October 1964: Sukarno and the Communists

CIA Office of Current Intelligence Special Report SC 00642/64A, 'Sukarno and the Communists' (23 Oct 1964, Secret; declassified 1975). Analyses Sukarno's mutual exploitation with the PKI and Aidit's strategy; lists PKI front membership claims, including Gerwani at almost two million, beside BTI, SOBSI, Pemuda Rakjat an

GA-02612 1964-10-23 rel B licensed

CIA, 'Sukarno and the Communists' (Office of Current Intelligence, 23 October 1964)

CIA, 'Sukarno and the Communists' (Office of Current Intelligence, 23 Oct 1964)

CIA Office of Current Intelligence report 'Sukarno and the Communists' (23 Oct 1964, ten pages), pre-coup assessment of the PKI-Sukarno relationship. Describes PKI growth to a claimed three million members and its fronts, including the Women's Front (GERWANI), 'almost two million'; also the cabinet, National Front, lan

GA-02322 2021-10-04 Tempo English rel A licensed

Umi Sardjono, Gerwani and 30SPKI Graphic (Women Warriors)

Tempo English, 4 October 2021: Women warriors (Gerwani infographic)

Tempo English infographic 'Women Warriors' (4 Oct 2021, text by Hussein Abri Dongoran) summarising Gerwani: founded 1954 from Gerwis (1950), disbanded 1965 after New Order accusations. It lists the central board (Umi Sardjono chair, Mudikdio, Suharti, S.K. Trimurti, Sulami Djojoprawiro, Sudjinah and others), the jasmin