English typescript prison memoir by Sudjinah, Gerwani translator and journalist (c. 2000): courier in 1945-49, WIDF secretariat in Berlin, Gerwani HQ in 1965, capture in 1967, torture and detention at Bukit Duri and Tangerang. Key Gerwani survivor memoir.
Full 20-page issue of the Kankakee Daily Journal (Illinois), 12 March 1956. Front-page AP/UP report on US Secretary of State Dulles's visit to Jakarta (talks with Sukarno) says police arrested a woman named Sansia, who said she was a member of Gerwani, 'a leftist women's organization founded in 1954', over a banner pro
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
Somogyi Neplap (Hungary), 9 Nov 1965, p. 2: MTI report 'New anti-left measures' from Jakarta. A right-wing women's demonstration marched to Suharto's house and the National Front, demanding a final ban of the PKI and Gerwani. Also covers searches in Jakarta's old town, a blacklist of 102 deputies, the PKI ban extended
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.
Amnesty International Dutch dossier (Oct 1976) on Buru Island: over 10,000 untried prisoners, forced labour, and prisoner lists including a women's list headed by a short Gerwani history naming women held in Bukit Duri and Plantungan.
Komitee Indonesie (Amsterdam) campaign poster, c. 1978, demanding immediate release of all political prisoners, with silhouettes of three prisoners behind barbed wire. Dutch solidarity material on post-1965 detainees.
Poster for an Indonesian cultural evening to benefit political prisoners, 30 Nov 1979, at PH'31 Amsterdam, organised by PH'31 and Komitee Indonesie, with meal, music, poetry and film. Dutch solidarity campaign material.
Routledge volume (2019, ed. Wieringa, Melvin, Pohlman) gathering research behind the IPT 1965: coup, torture, Buru enslavement, sexual slavery and forced marriage, exile, mass graves, Western complicity and youth projects. Foreword by judge Zak Yacoob.