Java-Bode, 8 Nov 1949, p. 1: same Makassar correspondent report as the Indische Courant piece. Salawati Daud, municipal councillor and 'very well-known extreme-left lady', is said to have led the Masamba prison raid and the abduction of Th. Pluyter using the mayor's car; arrested in a cave; presented as exposing a poli
Het Nieuwsblad voor Sumatra, reprint from Java-bode (11 Nov 1949, p.3) 'Dienstreis!': after the Palopo raid and kidnapping, police searched the home of Mrs Lot Salawati, a municipal councillor and 'very well-known extreme-left lady', who had borrowed the mayor's car claiming official business. Five students from a Maka
Indische Courant voor Nederland (16 Nov 1949, p.1): correspondent in Makassar reports that councillor Salawati Daud, leader of the band that ambushed Th. Pluyter near Masamba, was arrested in a cave 8 km from Masamba. Described as a well-known extreme-left woman, she borrowed the mayor's car; five students of a Makassa
Indische Courant voor Nederland, 16 Nov 1949, front page: correspondent's report from Makassar that Salawati Daud, municipal councillor and 'well-known extreme-leftist lady', led the armed gang that raided Masamba prison and abducted Th. Pluyter, using the mayor's car; arrested in a cave. Frames it as exposing a politi
C. van Dijk, Rebellion under the Banner of Islam: The Darul Islam in Indonesia (KITLV/Martinus Nijhoff, 1981), a political history of the Darul Islam risings in West and Central Java, South Sulawesi, South Kalimantan and Aceh, and of why people joined them. It never mentions Gerwani. Its relevance is biographical: Mrs
Tempo report (1 Oct 2012) on the Moncongloe 'Instalasi Rehabilitasi' camp (Gowa, South Sulawesi), open 1969-79 with about 1,000 political prisoners doing unpaid forced labour (20 km road, army land); hepatitis, sexual harassment of women prisoners, a pregnant nurse expelled. Based on Taufik's thesis/book and testimony