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GA-00277 1949-08-18 The Argus rel A

Communist Blueprint For Asia (Western Mail, 18 Agustus 1949)

Communist Blueprint For Asia (Western Mail, 18 August 1949), reprint

Western Mail (Perth), 18 Aug 1949, reprint of Denis Warner's article presenting the Feb 1948 Calcutta youth conference as a Moscow-directed 'blueprint' for Asian revolution. Indonesian delegate Francisca Fanggidaej is listed among the 'guests'; Warner says there is little to show 'his' politics and doubts Indonesian in

GA-01012 1949-11-11 Het Nieuwsblad Voor Sumatra rel A

Terrorisme in Zuid-Celebes: betekent het optreden van mevr. Salawati Daud 'démasqué'?

Terrorism in South Celebes: does Mrs Salawati Daud's role mean 'unmasked'?

Het Nieuwsblad voor Sumatra, reprint from De Java-bode (11 Nov 1949, p.3): a lead-in to a chauffeur's account after the arrest of Makassar councillor Salawati Daud, described as leader of a terrorist band south of Masamba responsible for Th. Pluyter's murder; she was found in a cave 8 km from Masamba. The chauffeur's s

GA-01709 1951-03-13 Renmin Ribao rel B licensed

印尼妇女拥护缔结和平公约 (Indonesian women support conclusion of a peace pact)

Indonesian women support conclusion of a peace pact (Renmin Ribao, 13 March 1951)

Xinhua item in Renmin Ribao, 13 Mar 1951 (p. 4), relaying TASS and the Dutch paper De Waarheid: representatives of Indonesian women's organisations met in Yogyakarta, endorsed the World Peace Council's Berlin call for a five-power peace pact, and resolved that Indonesian women's organisations should link with and join

GA-01710 1951-03-13 Renmin Ribao rel B licensed

印尼妇女拥护缔结和平公约 (Indonesian women support conclusion of a peace pact)

Indonesian women support conclusion of a peace pact (Renmin Ribao, 13 March 1951)

Xinhua item in Renmin Ribao, 13 Mar 1951 (p. 4), relaying TASS and the Dutch paper De Waarheid: representatives of Indonesian women's organisations met in Yogyakarta, endorsed the World Peace Council's Berlin call for a five-power peace pact, and resolved that Indonesian women's organisations should link with and join

GA-02174 1965-10-12 Suara Merdeka rel B

Suara Merdeka, 12 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1

Suara Merdeka, 12 Oct 1965, p. 1: Krukut 'cleansing operation' claims

Suara Merdeka (Semarang), 12 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1. Berita Yudha-based report on the Krukut 'cleansing operation' of 4–5 October claiming local activists joined the kidnappings and killings at Lubang Buaya. Gerwani is not named.

GA-01990 1965-11-07 Renmin Ribao rel A licensed

Renmin Ribao, 7 November 1965: Ucapan dan tindakan Angkatan Darat Indonesia (印度尼西亚陆军的言行)

Words and deeds of the Indonesian army: Nasution and Suharto statements reprinted

Renmin Ribao (7 Nov 1965, p. 5) reprints Indonesian army statements from radio and Antara: Nasution's 25 October speech on 'slander' and purges, Suharto's 30 October Bandung speech calling the PKI the 'protagonist' and Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani members 'supporting roles' of the movement, an army information chief's int

GA-02016 1965-11-07 Berita Harian rel B

Berita Harian, 7 November 1965: Wanita hamil belasan tahun mengaku (Lubang Buaya)

Berita Harian, 7 Nov 1965: pregnant teenage woman 'confesses' (Lubang Buaya)

Berita Harian, 7 Nov 1965 (UPI, lead only). Repeats the army newspaper Angkatan Bersenjata: a pregnant teenage woman 'confessed' she took part in hacking and mutilating a bound, blindfolded army general during the coup attempt. An early instance of the Lubang Buaya sexual-slander narrative in the regional press.

GA-00366 1966-06-29 Tribune rel A

Dossier of a slaughter (Tribune, 29 Juni 1966)

Dossier of a slaughter

Tribune (Sydney), 29 Jun 1966, p. 5: editorial attacking Western press whitewashing of the Suharto regime plus a long reconstruction of 30 Sep-1 Oct 1965 taken from the British New Left Review, portraying the movement as junior officers' action. It mentions that Halim auxiliaries from Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani took par

GA-00367 1966-06-29 Tribune rel A

Dossier of a slaughter (Tribune, 29 Juni 1966)

Dossier of a slaughter

Tribune (Sydney), 29 Jun 1966, p. 5: editorial attacking Western press whitewashing of the Suharto regime plus a long reconstruction of 30 Sep-1 Oct 1965 taken from the British New Left Review, portraying the movement as junior officers' action. It mentions that Halim auxiliaries from Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani took par

GA-02123 1967 Pravda rel A

Pravda, 19 February 1967, No. 50: Arrests in Jakarta (PKI, Pemuda Rakjat, Gerwani)

Pravda, 19 Feb 1967: arrests in Jakarta (PKI, Pemuda Rakjat, Gerwani)

Pravda, 19 February 1967 (No. 50): a short TASS item 'Arrests' (p. 1) citing Sinar Harapan on arrests in Jakarta of PKI figures. It reports that security forces arrested three members of the central leadership of the women's organisation 'Gervani' [Gerwani], along with a PKI CC member. A page 5 item covers the MPRS rej

GA-01331 1985-07-06 NRC Handelsblad rel B

Brieven: Suharto's moorddadige vrees voor oude, trouwe communisten (Letters: Suharto's murderous fear of old, loyal communists)

Letters: Suharto's murderous fear of old, loyal communists

Reader's letter in NRC Handelsblad (6 Jul 1985) answering a plea for clemency for old communists. The writer asserts the Lubang Buaya generals' murder was 'historically' the PKI's work, 'assisted by the communist women of the Gerwani', cites televised exhumation, and attacks Pramoedya's Nobel candidacy. Repeats the New

GA-01514 1998-09-27 South China Sunday Morning Post rel B licensed

Rethink on Suharto role in coup (South China Sunday Morning Post, 27 September 1998)

South China Sunday Morning Post, 27 Sep 1998, p.8, Jenny Grant: after Suharto's fall, historians and politicians call for a reassessment of the 1965 coup and killings; the government has dropped compulsory screening of the New Order propaganda film. The article repeats that members of 'the communist women's organisatio

GA-01636 2002-10-07 Waspada rel A

Waspada, 7 Oktober 2002: peringatan di monumen Sudjono, Bandarbetsy

Waspada, 7 October 2002: Commemoration at the Sudjono monument, Bandar Betsy

Waspada, 7 Oct 2002, p. 11: feature on the 1 Oct 2002 commemoration at the Sudjono monument in Bandarbetsy, retelling the 1965 killing of Peltu Sudjono by BTI squatters joined by Pemuda Rakyat, Gerwani and Lekra who 'sang and danced'.

GA-02287 2021-05-01 Tempo rel B licensed

Kehidupan Kembali Rukiah

Tempo, 1 May 2021: Rukiah's second life

Tempo feature (1 May 2021) on publisher Ultimus (Bandung) reissuing works by woman writer S. Rukiah, banned after 1965 because she was jailed as a Lekra activist: 'Kejatuhan dan Hati' and 'Tandus' (2017), children's book 'Pak Supi' (2018), and nine more children's titles found in libraries. Gerwani is not mentioned.