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GA-00376 1965-10-12 Berita Yudha rel B

Berita Yudha, 12 Oktober 1965

Berita Yudha, 12 October 1965

Berita Yudha, 12 Oktober 1965. Front-page report that crowds in Yogyakarta (5–6 Oct 1965) put up placards 'Who killed the Heroes of the Revolution? Gerwani-PR' and destroyed PKI and IPPI offices; an early link of Gerwani to the killings.

GA-01692 1965-11-27 Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata, Intisari Berita, 27 November 1965

Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 27 November 1965: Klaten training claims and 'razored Heroes' allusion

Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 27 November 1965. Serial 'Mengikuti Operasi RPKAD' says the PKI in Klaten held training for Gerwani, PR and BTI, and insists its claims are as true as 'the Gerwani who razored our Heroes of the Revolution'.

GA-01697 1965-12-04 Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata, Intisari Berita, 4 Desember 1965

Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 4 December 1965: 'How the PKI poisons children's minds'

Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 4 Desember 1965. Item 'Cara PKI meracuni jiwa anak-anak' claims in PKI kindergartens run by 'Gerwani' women children were taught God does not exist because He could not give pencils; demonisation through religion and education.

GA-01698 1965-12-06 Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Pusat Pemberitaan Angkatan Bersendjata, Intisari Berita, 6 Desember 1965

Armed Forces Information Centre, Intisari Berita, 6 December 1965: speech linking godless knowledge to Lubang Buaya

Armed Forces Information Centre bulletin, 6 Desember 1965. Speech at the Akademi Bahasa Asing Indonesia warning that godless knowledge led PR, CGMI and Gerwani/PKI to 'strip naked and sleep together at Lubang Buaya' because it held that 'women and men are equal'.

GA-00190 1966-01-04 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 4 Januari 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 4 January 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.

GA-00198 1966-01-30 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata (Mingguan), 30 Januari 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata (Weekly), 30 January 1966

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.

GA-00199 1966-01-31 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 31 Januari 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 31 January 1966

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'.

GA-00203 1966-02-25 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 25 Februari 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 25 February 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 25 Feb 1966, during Untung's Mahmillub trial. A Padang anecdote mocks a PKI figure who called Gerwani 'Gargani' and Lekra 'Lecigak'; new Dwikora cabinet installed.

GA-00204 1966-02-28 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 28 Februari 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 28 February 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 28 Feb 1966, during Untung's Mahmillub trial. The 'Pos Piket' corner jokes that the alleged 'Dewan Djenderal' tape is 'the tape of Gerwani at Lubang Buaya', presupposing the sexual slander as common knowledge.

GA-00207 1966-04-08 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 8 April 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 8 Apr 1966. A boxed feature blames ex-PKI mayor of Solo Utomo Ramelan's 'Silir' complex for preparing 'the immoral drama of Lubang Buaya with Gerwani and PR as actors', a sexualised slander frame.

GA-00412 1966-06-26 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 26 Juni 1966 (edisi Minggu)

Berita Yudha, 26 June 1966 (Sunday edition)

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.

GA-00216 1966-09-14 Angkatan Bersendjata rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata, 14 September 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 14 September 1966. 'Bung Piket' part 8 says the PKI imposed its will 'through PR or its Gerwani' with 'devilish' slander tactics; a KAPPI brigade is named after Ade Irma Suryani Nasution.

GA-00415 1966-09-25 Berita Yudha rel B

Berita Yudha, 25 September 1966 (edisi Minggu)

Berita Yudha, 25 September 1966 (Sunday edition)

Berita Yudha, 25 September 1966 (edisi Minggu). Gossip exposé tied to the Jusuf Muda Dalam corruption trial names Siti Wahjoeni as ex-'commander' of the Palace young women's corps 'Barisan Bhinneka Tunggal Ika'; Gerwani mentioned as comparison.

GA-00417 1966-10-04 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 4 Oktober 1966

Berita Yudha, 4 October 1966

Berita Yudha, 4 Oktober 1966. Report of a rally of some 3,500 women of KOWANI, KAWI and BPOW at Lubang Buaya (3 Oct) where, led by Ibu Tien Soeharto, they swore to 'eradicate the gerwani/pki mentality'; Ibu Soeharto says they 'practised obscenities without limit'.

GA-00222 1966-10-15 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 15 Oktober 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 15 October 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 15 Oktober 1966. 'Urap sari Mahmillub': at the Subandrio trial the court screened a documentary film of Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani training at Lubang Buaya, with Gerwani described as having 'lost their sense of womanliness' carrying weapons in slacks.

GA-00223 1966-10-18 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 18 Oktober 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 18 October 1966

Angkatan Bersendjata, 18 Oktober 1966. Minister Soetjipto says the 'Old Order' denied that Gerwani and Pemuda Rakyat 'immorally' trained at Lubang Buaya while the New Order has found photo and film documentation made by participants.

GA-00424 1966-10-24 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 24 Oktober 1966: 'Hanja seorang Gerwani dapat demikian'

Berita Yudha, 24 October 1966: 'Only a Gerwani could do this'

Berita Yudha, 24 Oktober 1966: 'Hanja seorang Gerwani dapat demikian'. Front-page photo feature with staged photos re-enacting the murder of Hasnah Djohan by Aminah Achmad, who allegedly cut her throat and mutilated the body: 'Only a Gerwani could do this'.

GA-02011 1966-12-06 Sinar Harapan rel A

Sinar Harapan, 6 Desember 1966: 'Malam Teror Fajar Harapan' (V)

Sinar Harapan, 6 Dec 1966: 'Night of Terror, Dawn of Hope' (V), Clarence Hall serial

Sinar Harapan, 6 Desember 1966: 'Malam Teror Fajar Harapan' (V). Serial translation of Clarence Hall's 'Indonesia: Night of Terror, Dawn of Hope' ends with the claim that the kidnapped generals were 'handed over to about 100 screaming Gerwani members'; also an essay on education as protection against betrayal.

GA-00234 1967-07-09 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 9 Juli 1967 (edisi Mingguan)

Angkatan Bersendjata, 9 July 1967 (Weekly Edition)

Angkatan Bersendjata, 9 Juli 1967 (edisi Mingguan). Family column 'Jadilah seorang wanita yang baik' defines womanhood through motherhood and invokes 'how savage and cruel Gerwani women' were in torturing the generals, using the slander as a moral counterexample.

GA-00237 1967-10-01 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 1 Oktober 1967 (edisi Mingguan)

Angkatan Bersendjata, 1 October 1967 (Weekly Edition)

Angkatan Bersendjata, 1 Oktober 1967 (edisi Mingguan). Second-anniversary issue with a front-page lead 'Dianiaja' alleging the generals were tortured and mutilated and contradicting Sukarno; the richest Lubang Buaya slander item in this run.

GA-00434 1968-06-24 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 24 Juni 1968: '2 Aktivis Gerwani dan 10 orang sel PKI ditangkap'

Berita Yudha, 24 June 1968: 2 Gerwani activists and 10 PKI cell members arrested

Berita Yudha, 24 Juni 1968: '2 Aktivis Gerwani dan 10 orang sel PKI ditangkap'. Kodim 0504 arrested Suprijanti (21) and Turminah (23), 'ex-Gerwani activists' who allegedly 'confessed' to helping torture and kill the generals at Lubang Buaya at a young age.

GA-00260 1968-08 Angkatan Bersendjata Minggu rel B

Angkatan Bersendjata Minggu, Agustus 1968 (edisi Minggu)

Angkatan Bersendjata Minggu, August 1968 (Sunday Edition)

Angkatan Bersendjata Minggu, Agustus 1968 (edisi Minggu). Sunday edition, Independence Day issue: mostly entertainment; the single Gerwani item is a boxed city-column feature on a young jamu seller from Semarang, joking about Gerwani.

GA-00437 1968-08-23 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 23 Agustus 1968: 'Wartawan Wanita PKI jg romantis'

Berita Yudha, 23 August 1968: The romantic PKI woman journalist

Berita Yudha, 23 Agustus 1968: 'Wartawan Wanita PKI jg romantis'. Feature on Sri Sukatno, 'ex-chair of Gerwani Jakarta', journalist and wife of a Pemuda Rakyat leader, after Operasi Trisula; sensational, romanticised gendered portrayal.

GA-00247 1968-08-24 Angkatan Bersendjata rel A

Angkatan Bersendjata, 24 Agustus 1968

Angkatan Bersendjata, 24 August 1968

Angkatan Bersendjata, 24 Agustus 1968. Part XIII of the 'Blitar Selatan' serial tells the story of Sri Liestyowati (Lies) Sukatno, a 'PKI/Gerwani figure' and wife of a Pemuda Rakyat leader, with gendered and sensational claims about her beauty and demands in the forest.

GA-00442 1968-10-15 Berita Yudha rel A

Berita Yudha, 15 Oktober 1968: '70 Prosen wanita P dirangkul G'wani/PKI'

Berita Yudha, 15 October 1968: 70 percent of prostitutes embraced by Gerwani/PKI

Berita Yudha, 15 Oktober 1968: '70 Prosen wanita P dirangkul G'wani/PKI'. Jakarta police chief claims nearly 70% of prostitutes in Central Java and Jakarta had been 'embraced' by Gerwani/PKI, 'proven' by Lubang Buaya; a core New Order sexual slander claim.