Short compilation of US embassy telegrams and airgrams (Dec 1960) on Indonesian labour and unions. A 3 Dec telegram reports the South Sumatra-Jambi military command's continued ban on PKI and affiliates including SOBSI, PERBUM, Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani after regulation changes; other items concern SOBSI and union cond
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
Brief FBIS item (Jakarta radio, 18 Nov 1966): Suwarti, a former PKI Central Committee member described as a Gerwani leader, will soon be tried by the South Sumatra Mahmilub, the first woman leader of the Gestapu-PKI so tried. The regional commander alleged she tried to build an underground PKI chapter there in June.
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
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