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GA-00018 1959 Api Kartini rel A

Api Kartini No. 7 Th. 1, Desember 1959

Api Kartini No. 7, Year 1, December 1959

Seventh issue of Api Kartini (Dec 1959), centred on Hari Ibu (22 December). Includes an article on the peace movement against nuclear testing, S. Djin's report on the November 1959 Latin American women's congress in Santiago, and an interview on food and clothing supply.

GA-01694 1965-11-29 Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata, Intisari Berita, 29 November 1965

Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 29 November 1965: Gerwani dissolutions in South Sumatra and Klaten...

Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 29 November 1965. Gerwani appears three times: 300 Gerwani members among 1,300 'spontaneously' dissolving in South Sumatra, Gerwani ranting dissolved in Muara Enim, and a Klaten claim that the PKI 'ordered Gerwani to strip naked' while dancing before armoured cars.

GA-02535 1966-11-18 rel A licensed

FBIS Daily Report, 18 Nov 1966: Gerwani leader Suwarti will stand trial

Gerwani Leader Suwarti Will Stand Trial (FBIS, 18 Nov 1966)

Two-page FBIS extract (18 Nov 1966) from HathiTrust. The Gerwani-relevant item says PKI Central Committee member Suwarti, called a Gerwani leader, will be tried by the South Sumatra Mahmilub, the first woman Gestapu-PKI leader to be tried. Other items cover Indonesian students in Bulgaria and a radio commentary on rumo

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