Deventer Dagblad front-page roundup (22 Sep 1948) on the Madiun affair: republican forces prepare to retake Madiun, communist leaders of the FDR are arrested in Magelang, curfews in Kediri, Solo calmed, fighting organisations disarmed, and a 'social revolution' purge in Sumatra. Mentions Colonel Djokosoejono as communi
Eindhovensch Dagblad report (24 Sep 1948, p.5) on republican purge arrests of military officers in Tapanuli, Sumatra (Padang Sidempuan, Sibolga, Tarutung), with a second Aneta account that communist laskars effectively control the area. Also reports two executed 'terrorists' who used village women as cover in July raid
De Maasbode, 7 Dec 1948: 'Latest news' column covering the Committee of Good Offices, Dr Beel in Madura, Hatta's stand on the army, and about 3,000 arrests after the Madiun revolt. A brief item reports seven Indonesian women drowned when a prau capsized near Teluknaga. Gerwani/Gerwis and Soetanti Aidit are not mentione
Nieuwe Courant, 5 March 1951: Vice-President Hatta's arrival in Surabaya on his way to East Indonesia; and a note that PKI MP Miss Suwarti visited Bondowoso to ask Resident Soediro about PKI members arrested in the Besuki 'Aksi Merdeka'. No Gerwani content.
Java-Bode, 31 Dec 1952, p. 3: year-in-review chronology April-July 1952 (Wilopo cabinet, Sobsi strike, Westerling, SOB lifting, NU leaving Masjumi). Only Gerwani-adjacent entry: on 8 April the goodwill mission to Kahar Muzakkar under Mrs Salawati returned to Makassar without result.
Indische Courant voor Nederland, 7 Jan 1953, p. 3: year-in-review chronology for 1952 (selected entries translated). Mentions the August 1951 raids, the 17 October 1952 affair, release of East Java arrestees on 30 Oct, a goodwill mission to Kahar Muzakkar under Mrs Salawati (8 Apr), and Aidit and Njoto refused entry to
Api Kartini item (1961), a review of Nguyen Xuan Tram's book 'Hell on Earth' on South Vietnamese women prisoners under Ngo Dinh Diem, including mothers jailed with infants and tortured. It ends by condemning planned US military intervention (General Maxwell Taylor's mission) as a threat to peace in Southeast Asia. Gerw
US Embassy telegram, 15 Sep 1965: a Dutch missionary reports on West Irian, including detained missionaries and a Papuan rebellion. Pre-coup West Papua context; no Gerwani content.
The Scotsman, 12 Oct 1965 (Reuter and AP): travellers report thousands of Communists, some armed, taking to the hills of Central Java to escape an army dragnet, with party branch officials rounded up; the Soviet Union voices a warning to Sukarno, and the US ambassador Marshall Green comments on a general step. Short an
The Straits Times, 13 October 1965, p. 1: Lt-Col. Untung is captured at Tegal; broadcasts claim rebels' support collapsed and many youths were rounded up; Medan rally demands a PKI ban; Soviet leaders warn Indonesia against imperialist threats; PKI chief Aidit still in hiding. Page also carries Vietnam war news. No men
US Embassy telegram 1290, 1 Nov 1965: labour attache's Palembang visit finds 600 communists jailed, SOBSI officials at Shell, Stanvac and PUSRI arrested, and concern for American oil staff. Context on arrests in the oil sector.
US Embassy Joint Weeka no. 46 (airgram A-373), 7 Dec 1965: Aidit's capture and death, the fate of Politburo members, and a figure of 34,000 PKI prisoners in Java. Context on leadership elimination and detention scale.
Short FBIS item (ANTARA, 13 Apr 1966): the central board of the Union of Indonesian Women Scholars (ISWI) temporarily dismissed Mrs Subandrio, wife of the detained former foreign minister, pending its congress. Gerwani is not named.
Sinar Harapan, 20 November 1966 (edisi Minggu). Front-page item that the Director General of Customs protects 'Gestapu/PKI' staff, e.g. Heroe Basuki, posted to Tanjung Pinang with his wife 'known as a Gerwani ringleader'.
Tempo article (online archive, dated 1972) on the political prisoner (tapol) problem: Archbishop Leo Soekoto urges society to help, Amnesty and the Red Cross press Jakarta, Buru resettlement of about 5,000 Group B prisoners is presented as the best option, and officials still see ex-PKI as a threat. No Gerwani content.
Romanian Communist Party daily Scinteia, catalogued as July 1972 (Nr. 9214) for a report on the sentence in the trial of Suwardiningsih, a PKI Central Committee member. The file's text is a different issue (Nr. 7210, 3 January 1967, Ceausescu's New Year speech); the passage found is only the front-page header and does
Romanian Communist Party daily Scinteia, catalogued as July 1972 (Nr. 9214) for a report on the sentence in the trial of Suwardiningsih, a PKI Central Committee member. The file's text is a different issue (Nr. 7210, 3 January 1967, Ceausescu's New Year speech); the passage found is only the front-page header and does
Poster for an 'Indonesie-avond' protest meeting at Frascati, Amsterdam, 28 April 1975, against the donor countries conference, demanding an end to aid to Suharto and release of political prisoners. Dutch solidarity material.
Daily World, 3 July 1975, p. 5: page of mixed US labour news; the Indonesia item (Prague) reports the WFTU condemning the imprisonment of thousands of political prisoners in Indonesian military compounds and demanding that the ban on SOBSI be lifted, calling both violations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Daily World, 4 Nov 1975, p. 10: among short news items, a report that Zain Nasution, 50, PKI central committee member and former secretary of its foreign affairs commission, died on 3 October 1975 in Nusakambangan camp after ten years' imprisonment. The PKI estimates at least 100,000 political prisoners face 'slow deat
Daily World, 21 Dec 1977, p. 8: short item that the PKI analysed the Indonesian government's release of 10,000 Communist political prisoners, saying perhaps 60,000-70,000 remain jailed, many since 1965, at least 15,000 died in Palembang and Surabaya camps, and new arrests roughly offset releases. Surrounded by unrelate
People's Daily World, 4 Nov 1986, p. 7-A: short item on worldwide protests against the execution of nine Communist political prisoners in Indonesia under Suharto, several jailed for years; a PKI representative links the executions to the 45% rupiah devaluation. Readers urged to write to Suharto. Surrounded by Haiti and
FBIS item (AFP via Hong Kong, 22 Oct 1988): security forces accused Akhmad Syabrun Caropeboka, 56, former South Sumatra Golkar treasurer, of past links to the banned PKI, hiding past membership of a PKI-related organisation. Other Golkar officials were similarly accused that year. Gerwani is not named; the listed perso
TAPOL Bulletin no. 94 (London, Aug 1989), mostly on East Timor (new arrests, Prabowo-led operations, Bishop Belo's UN letter, asylum seekers), student trials in Yogyakarta, Kedung Ombo, Lampung evictions, forestry and population control. Gerwani is not mentioned. Relevant context: ex-tapols' 'ET' identity cards and 'cl
TAPOL Bulletin no. 132 (December 1995), London-based human rights newsletter, mostly on East Timor (Xanana Gusmao interview, embassy asylum bids), Sri-Bintang Pamungkas's trial, labour unrest and Freeport. Relevant to 1965: 'The spectre haunting Suharto' on the regime's 'formless organisations' communist myth (p.13-16)
Tempo testimony (1 Oct 2012) of Bangsawan Karaeng Lira, 72, who led the mob that destroyed the BTI leader's house in Bontolanrang, Takalar (South Sulawesi), in late 1965. Describes forced labour (irrigation, roads) by detained PKI/BTI members, with a BTI survivor, Kamaruddin Bella, who lost relatives. Gerwani not menti
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
Tempo article, 1 May 2021, by Isma Savitri and Hardian Putra Pratama, on Lekra writer Sugiarti Siswadi: Lekra central leadership member from 1959, children's-literature advocate, author of the banned Sorga Dibumi, and editor of Api Kartini. Researchers cannot trace her life; one suspects she was jailed in Semarang in 1
2022 article by a Universitas Jember team on ex-political prisoners in South Blitar 1968-2000: weekly reporting, loss of civil rights (1.58 million excluded from the 1982 election), the 'ET' ID code and bans on marrying soldiers. Context on post-release control.