Visiting foreigners praise China, incl. Indonesian delegations in Hong Kong (Renmin Ribao, 28 October 1954)
Renmin Ribao, 28 Oct 1954 (p. 4), Xinhua roundup of visiting foreigners' praise of China: Japanese Diet members, Indian trade unionist K. P. Tripathi, an Italian women's delegation, and (via Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao and Wen Wei Po) fourteen members of the Indonesian goodwill and women's delegations, who told Hong Kong pre
Visiting foreigners praise China, incl. Indonesian delegations in Hong Kong (Renmin Ribao, 28 October 1954)
Renmin Ribao, 28 Oct 1954 (p. 4), Xinhua roundup of visiting foreigners' praise of China: Japanese Diet members, Indian trade unionist K. P. Tripathi, an Italian women's delegation, and (via Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao and Wen Wei Po) fourteen members of the Indonesian goodwill and women's delegations, who told Hong Kong pre
Indonesian women journalists visit Japan (Asahi Shimbun, 6 October 1955)
Asahi Shimbun (Tokyo evening edition, 6 Oct 1955, p. 3) item on Indonesian women journalists visiting Japan. OCR is nearly entirely scrambled; only 'Indonesia' and part of the name Herawati Diah are legible. Summary based on title; no Gerwani content visible.
CIA, Communist Revisionism and Dissidence, Summary No. 2846 (2 Nov 1960)
CIA Foreign Documents Division summary no. 2846 (2 November 1960) on communist revisionism and dissidence. Its Indonesia section reports that Kartinah Kurdi, in a long article in Harian Rakjat of 10 August 1960, developed the theme that women are lovers of world peace, stressing the horrors of atomic warfare, which the
CIA, Communist Revisionism and Dissidence, Summary No. 2846 (2 Nov 1960)
CIA Foreign Documents Division summary no. 2846 (2 November 1960) on communist revisionism and dissidence. Its Indonesia section reports that Kartinah Kurdi, in a long article in Harian Rakjat of 10 August 1960, developed the theme that women are lovers of world peace, stressing the horrors of atomic warfare, which the
Thurgauer Zeitung, 12 October 1965: The anti-communist wave in Indonesia
Thurgauer Zeitung wire digest, 12 Oct 1965, on the anti-communist wave in Indonesia: Communists fleeing in Central Java, an angry crowd burning Gerwani premises in Aceh (per Radio Djakarta), Untung's capture, Antara placed under Army control, and Sukarno's remarks on 'imperialists'. Gerwani appears only in one sentence
Dynamics of Tokyo-Djakarta Interactions, 1951-1966 (Nishihara, 1973)
Masashi Nishihara's 1973 Michigan PhD thesis on Japanese-Indonesian relations 1951-1966: war reparations, the Kishi-Sukarno settlement, lobbies, the Malaysia confrontation and the 'Sukarno groups'. Gerwani appears only once (pp. 285-286): the Nasution-Suharto group's claim that Pemuda Rakyat, Gerwani and SOBSI trained
A political fighter: profile of Ratna Sari Dewi Sukarno in Paris
De Tijd profile by Anton Koene (8 Feb 1974) of Ratna Sari Dewi Sukarno in Paris, who is serialising her memoirs to clear Sukarno's name over the 1 Oct 1965 coup, rebuts the Widjanarko report in Dake's book and criticises Suharto's regime. Gerwani and Gerwani women are not mentioned.
Wieringa's 2017 insider account, as chair of the IPT 1965 foundation, of the tribunal's rationale, genesis (a 2013 meeting with Oppenheimer, Stanley Prasetyo and Nursyahbani Katjasungkana), structure and July 2016 conclusions. Background on the tribunal's organisation.
Prize-winning athlete accused of being PKI who transformed herself into a man (Historia, 2017)
Historia feature (2017) on Karnah Sukarta (b. 1940, Ciamis), bronze medallist in javelin at the 1958 Asian Games, a Sukarno-admiring student reportedly joined Gerwani in Kawali, arrested after 1965 and held in Bandung. Biography of an athlete linked to Gerwani.