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GA-01246 1956-07-17 Java-Bode rel B

Parlementslid rapporteert: Koprasmokkel in opdracht van kolonel Warouw (MP reports: copra smuggling on Colonel Warouw's orders)

MP reports copra smuggling on Colonel Warouw's orders

Java-Bode, 17 July 1956, p. 2: defence section chair Lukas Kustario says Lt-Col Worang led large-scale copra smuggling in North Sulawesi on Col Warouw's instructions, proceeds funding a university building, roads and hospitals. He spoke after a trip with section members Mrs Salawati Daud (PKI) and Mansjur (PNI).

GA-02223 1959-07-11 Tages-Anzeiger rel B

Indonesien auf dem Weg zur Diktatur (Indonesia menuju diktator)

Tages-Anzeiger, 11 July 1959: Indonesia on the road to dictatorship

Tages-Anzeiger analysis (11 July 1959, signed Th. v. R.) of Sukarno's return to the 1945 constitution and the army's rising power under Nasution. Lists PKI-linked mass organisations, giving Gerwani 75,000 members alongside SOBSI, Pemuda Rakyat, BTI, and notes PKI's 1957 vote.

GA-02116 1965 Pravda rel B

Pravda, c. 27 October 1965, No. 300: The Situation in Indonesia

Pravda, c. 27 Oct 1965: The Situation in Indonesia

Pravda, c. 27 October 1965 (No. 300), 'The Situation in Indonesia': two short TASS dispatches from Jakarta dated 26 October. They report Sukarno and Subandrio on the 30 September Movement and ongoing repression of the PKI. Gerwani is mentioned once, among organisations banned by military authorities in North Sulawesi a

GA-02117 1965 Pravda rel A

Pravda, 1965, no. 300 (Pelarangan PKI dan Gerwani di daerah)

Pravda, 1965: bans on the PKI and Gerwani in the regions (excerpt)

Pravda no. 300, 1965 (excerpt; TASS dispatch dated Jakarta, 26 Oct). Reports Sukarno ordering police and army to fire on those destroying Communist property, and military bans on the PKI, SOBSI and BTI in East Java and East Sulawesi; in North Sulawesi the ban also covers Gerwani. Rest is unrelated (OAU, Rhodesia, econo

GA-02188 1965-10-28 Suara Merdeka rel A

Suara Merdeka, 28 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1

Suara Merdeka, 28 October 1965, p. 1: North Sulawesi freezing of PKI and Gerwani

Suara Merdeka (Semarang), 28 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1. Gerwani appears twice: the North Sulawesi Pepelrada froze the PKI and onderbouw including 'Gerwani (Gerakan Wanita Indonesia)', and Perti purges PKI sympathisers.

GA-00318 1965-12-20 The Townsville Daily Bulletin rel B

Sukarno threatens 'deviators' (Townsville Daily Bulletin, 20 Desember 1965)

Sukarno threatens 'deviators'

Townsville Daily Bulletin, 20 Dec 1965, p. 1 (AAP-Reuter): speaking to a gathering of the Indonesian Women's Association, Sukarno says those who deviate from the revolution will be shot and that an extraordinary military tribunal will try coup participants. Reports arrests of supporters in Central Java, South Borneo (3

GA-03050 1970 rel B licensed

Youth and the Wane of Soekarno's Government

Youth and the Wane of Soekarno's Government (Paget, 1970)

Roger Paget's 1970 Cornell PhD thesis on how student and youth action groups, culminating in KAMI, emerged after 1 October 1965 and helped undermine Sukarno. Gerwani appears in several passages: action fronts demanded its banning (p. 44) and its offices were ransacked (p. 63); Herlina denounced it for not fighting Mala