Angkatan Bersendjata, 4 Januari 1966
Angkatan Bersendjata, 4 Jan 1966. Reports the arrest in Tangerang of Sariningsih, called a 'Gerwani Lubang Buaya' fugitive, and a joke on Gerwani 'savagery'; also 1,204 detainees (83 women) in South Jakarta.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 4 Jan 1966. Reports the arrest in Tangerang of Sariningsih, called a 'Gerwani Lubang Buaya' fugitive, and a joke on Gerwani 'savagery'; also 1,204 detainees (83 women) in South Jakarta.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 6 Jan 1966. Antara claims PKI leaders 'admitted' Gerwani and Pemuda Rakyat were physically trained in North Sumatra before 1 October; two Pekalongan women 'known as Gerwani' forced to recite the shahada; Soetiman's 'confession'.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 10 Jan 1966. Padang report that PKI leader Muin 'confessed' the party's self-dissolution was a tactic and was arrested with two Pemuda Rakyat members and 'a Gerwani chairwoman'; dismissals at Gadjah Mada.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 11 Jan 1966. NTB military order (31 Dec 1965) dissolving the PKI and affiliates including Gerwani, BTI, SOBSI, Lekra, Baperki and Universitas Rakyat (UNRA), confiscating their property; about 66,000 detainees in Central Java.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 14 Jan 1966. Feature from Soetiman's 17 Dec 1965 statement: Gerwani and Pemuda Rakyat 'warmly welcomed' Yani's body and fought a half-hour battle on 2 October. Gerwani militarised but no mutilation or sexual element yet.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 15 Jan 1966. Veterans' Legion denounces a rival delegation at the Havana Tricontinental of 'PKI/Pemuda Rakyat, Gerwani, SOBSI elements'; Siliwangi bans all writings of the PKI and its affiliates.
Angkatan Bersendjata Sunday edition, 30 Jan 1966. Includes the soldiers' joke 'Gerwani Phobi' equating Gerwani with a kuntilanak who 'snatches' genitals, an early instance of the sexual slander; plus Nasution's daughter posed with an RPKAD rifle.
Berita Yudha, 30 Januari 1966 (edisi Minggu). Wayang-based moral column 'Tepa-Palupi (60): Bhatari Durga' retells the cursing of Uma into the demon Durga; Gerwani is invoked implicitly through the female-demon figure.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 31 Jan 1966. The 'Pos Piket' column jokes about 'kuntilanak GERWANI'; also a 'confession' by Partindo official Waridjan and railway police seizure of 'a suitcase of human hair'.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 7 Feb 1966. Yogyakarta report that BTI member Suradijo, called an 'executioner of Lubang Buaya', was shot 'fleeing'; his reported confession says Gerwani members tortured and stabbed the generals while singing.
Berita Yudha, 7 Februari 1966. Boxed Antara report: BTI member Suradijo, called an 'executioner of Lubang Buaya', shot dead while 'escaping'; his reported confession involves Gerwani members stabbing the generals.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 11 Mar 1966 (Supersemar day). Regional column reports Pasaman husbands divorcing wives who are Gerwani, and release of 37 ex-detainees in Pati including six ex-Gerwani; PGRI petition to dissolve the PKI.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 12 Mar 1966, the Supersemar issue, with Sukarno's 8 March International Women's Day address, Muslimat NU's Mahmudah Mawardi demanding a PKI ban 'because women feel the effects', and the decree dissolving the PKI.
Berita Yudha, 27 April 1966: 'Taman Kanak² tak ketinggalan tendang G 30 S/PKI'. Press conference of the Federation of Indonesian Kindergartens (GTKI, ~7,000 kindergartens) says it expelled persons and schools linked to G30S/PKI since October 1965; relevant to TK Melati's fate.
Berita Yudha, 11 Mei 1966: 'Kongres Wanita Indonesia' (Barindi). Opinion article on the reorganisation of KOWANI after Subandrio's arrest: removal of coordinator Hurustiati Subandrio and the secretary, with a congress planned; accuses Hurustiati of dictating.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 14 Mei 1966. Front-page report of Ibu Soeharto telling armed forces wives to adopt their husbands' ideology: 'let it not happen that an ABRI wife becomes a member of Gerwani'.
Berita Yudha, 18 Mei 1966. Antara: 'Tiga tokoh PKI diringkus di rumah seorang Gerwani', arrest of SOBSI Semarang secretary Pita Hardjosoemarto in the house of a woman Toemini, alleged local Gerwani member.
Berita Yudha, 28 Mei 1966. Mahmillub trial of ex-Air Force Maj. Sujono: Heru Atmodjo says Sujono was responsible for training PR, SOBSI and Gerwani at Lubang Buaya; deputy Gatot Sukrisno says about 4,000 trained.
Berita Yudha, 11 Juni 1966. Front page: Lt-Gen. Suharto at Perwari's 10th congress, where he is honoured 'Penyelamat Revolusi' and claims 40% of Central Java army units had been infiltrated; Gerwani mentioned.
Berita Yudha, 26 Juni 1966 (edisi Minggu). Interview with Attorney-General Sugih Arto promising Mahmillub trials; asked when 'the Gerwani leaders who are already immoral' will be tried, he falls silent, as the reporter imagines the 'indecent' deeds.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 9 Juli 1966. 'Istri-istri ABRI turun tangan': Ny. Nasution says army wives take over social work, hampered earlier by 'Gestapu/PKI such as Gerwani', illustrating the displacement of Gerwani's welfare activities by military wives.
Berita Yudha, 30 Juli 1966. Interview with Mahmillub spokesman Ali Said: trials of Latief and PKI leaders in regions, and under the sub-heading 'Orang Gerwani juga' Gerwani people will also be tried.
Berita Yudha, 8 September 1966. Police wanted notice: Dr. Ny. Sumijarsi, 'leading figure of Gerwani/HSI/PKI' and 'the Lubang Buaya Doctor', and husband Chaerun Carepaboka, 'creators of the Lubang Buaya barbarity', still at large.
Sinar Harapan, 10 September 1966. Antara report: Pesing police commander urges arrest of Dr. Sumiarsih, 'the Lubang Buaya doctor', a 'PKI/HSI/Gerwani figure' said to have issued 'sick' certificates to those trained there.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 20 September 1966. 'Bung Piket' part 13 asserts the PKI held military training 'under cover of volunteer training à la Lubang Buaya' whose core was PR and Gerwani, in the Fifth Force campaign; editorial on Madiun.
Harian Kami, 29 September 1966. Rosihan Anwar's poem 'Kami Mengenang Kembali' narrates the New Order's founding story in verse and pictures the generals at Lubang Buaya being sunk, with Gerwani implied.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 1 Oktober 1966 (edisi Hari Kesaktian Pancasila pertama). First-anniversary issue and the richest Gerwani source in the batch: prints the official 'Risalah singkat tragedi nasional' claiming officers were tortured 'beyond humanity by members of Pemuda Rakyat and GERWANI', plus 'Bung Piket' retrospe
Berita Yudha, 1 Oktober 1966. First-anniversary issue: Suharto on Pancasila's 'magic power', Nasution on the Cakrabirawa, photo of Yani's exhumed body, an interview with a widow; Gerwani item on p. 1.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 2 Oktober 1966 (edisi Mingguan). Sunday weekly edition continuing the army's 'Risalah singkat tragedi nasional' (p. 3), repeating that four officers were tortured 'by members of Pemuda Rakjat and GERWANI' before being thrown into the Lubang Buaya well.
Angkatan Bersendjata, 4 Oktober 1966. Front-page item: a women's action front states that the 'barbarous acts of Gerwani/PKI at Lubang Buaya' do not spring from the character of Indonesian women, distancing 'true' women from Gerwani.