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GA-03341 1965-12-09 Berita Harian rel A

Wanita yang dipenjarakan (Tears at Bukit Duri), photo story by Kurnipi, UPI

Women in prison: tears at Bukit Duri (photo story, Berita Harian, 1965)

Berita Harian, 9 December 1965, p. 4: UPI photographer Kurnipi visits Bukit Duri women's prison, Jakarta (about 110 detainees), among them Gerwani leaders and MPs Salawati Daud and Umi Sardjono, plus Emi binti Madali, 20, who 'confessed' to killing General Yani, and two small children jailed with their mothers. Women p

GA-01315 1966-03-19 Nieuwsblad Van Het Noorden rel C

Soekarno en Soebandrio onder bewaking: Indonesisch leger voltooit rustig greep naar macht (Sukarno and Subandrio under guard)

Sukarno and Subandrio under guard: Indonesian army quietly completes grab for power

Nieuwsblad van het Noorden, 19 March 1966, p. 1: report on Suharto's 'quiet 12-hour coup' that purged Sukarno's cabinet and arrested 15 ministers including Subandrio. A photo caption says Indonesian women loudly cheered the new regime at a Jakarta mass meeting. Gerwani is not mentioned.

GA-01672 1966-10-08 Press rel B

Students Demand Trial for Mrs Hartini Sukarno (Press, Christchurch, 8 October 1966)

Students Demand Trial for Mrs Hartini Sukarno (Press, Christchurch, 8 October 1966), photograph clipping

Photograph-only clipping from the Press (Christchurch), 8 Oct 1966: demonstrators with banners and flags in Jakarta, one banner partly legible; illustrates the students' demand to try Hartini Sukarno for patronage of Gerwani. No caption text in this clipping.

GA-00959 1981-10-20 De Waarheid rel B

Gesprek bij het 35-jarig bestaan van de Nederlandse Vrouwenbeweging (Annie van Ommeren-Averink)

Conversation on the 35th anniversary of the Dutch Women's Movement (Annie van Ommeren-Averink)

De Waarheid interview (20 Oct 1981, p.5) with Annie van Ommeren-Averink, CPN politician and NVB board member, on the NVB's 35th anniversary. She recalls labour and women's struggles; a photo of Umi Sardjono, freed after years of imprisonment, hangs in her home, last seen in March 1965, and she works for the CPN's Indon

GA-03006 2012 rel A

Frau L's Kampf für Gerechtigkeit: Die 80-jährige Lestari wünscht sich, dass niemand mehr Angst vor ihr hat (Keller, 2012)

Frau L's fight for justice: 80-year-old Lestari wishes that no one fears her any more (Keller, 2012)

Anett Keller's 2012 reportage (südostasien, German) on Lestari, an 80-year-old Gerwani co-founder in a Jakarta house of ex-prisoners: Gerwani's literacy and kindergarten work, her husband a PKI East Java leader, flight, arrest in Malang, 1979 release and life as an 'ET' domestic worker. Life-history portrait.

GA-02254 2012-10-01 Tempo rel B licensed

Di Bawah Cengkeraman Kopkamtib

Tempo, 1 October 2012: Under Kopkamtib's grip

Tempo explainer (1 Oct 2012) on Kopkamtib, set up by Suharto on 2 Oct 1965 as the 'super organisation' that planned and drove the mass killings and detentions (Komnas HAM names it chief perpetrator). It notes army-controlled media showing Lubang Buaya photos with stories that Gerwani women tortured the generals, and ci