1939 – 2020
National Library reproduction of Presidential Photo Collection images (15 March 1965) catalogued as a Gerwani commemoration at Istora Senayan with Sukarno speaking; visible signboards refer to technicians, not women, so the caption may be mismatched. Visual record.
Cover or title page of a photo album in the Koleksi Idayu (Yayasan Idayu), Perpusnas Khastara, labelled 'Peristiwa: Dra. Ek. S.K. Trimurti'. Undated. It introduces photographs of the labour leader and former minister S.K. Trimurti; no date or event is given in the readable text.
Photograph, image 02 of Khastara item 443681 (Yayasan Idayu photo albums), titled in the file name 'Dra. Ek. S.K. Trimurti'. Undated; no readable caption text (OCR blank). Image content not described; caption data only.
Undated portrait-type photograph from the Yayasan Idayu S.K. Trimurti albums (Perpusnas Khastara), image 03, captioned in the file name only as Dra. Ek. S.K. Trimurti. No text could be read and the photograph was not viewed; no Gerwani link is shown.
Undated photograph (Khastara 443681) from the S.K. Trimurti album series, titled 'Dra. Ek. S.K. Trimurti'. The only OCR text is the National Library copyright stamp (2018). Summary is from the file name and folder. No Gerwani content.
Undated photograph from the Yayasan Idayu S.K. Trimurti albums (Perpusnas Khastara), image 02: Ibu Dra. Ek. S.K. Trimurti giving a talk, apparently on the relationship between the labour movement and the women's movement (title truncated in the file name). No text could be read; no Gerwani link is shown.
Undated photograph from the Yayasan Idayu albums (Perpusnas Khastara) captioned as Ibu Dra. SK. Trimurti giving a talk on the relationship between the labour movement and the women's movement. Shows Trimurti as a speaker on labour and women's organising; Gerwani is not mentioned in the caption. Description based on cap
Undated photograph from the Yayasan Idayu album (Perpusnas Khastara 575445, image 04): by its title, Ibu Dra. SK Trimurti giving a lecture on the relation between the labour movement and the women's movement. Shows Trimurti, a Gerwis founder, speaking on labour and women; no text accompanies the image.
Undated photograph from the Yayasan Idayu albums (Perpusnas Khastara), same series as image 03, captioned as Ibu Dra. SK. Trimurti lecturing on the relationship between the labour movement and the women's movement. Gerwani is not mentioned in the caption. Description based on caption only.
Undated photograph from the S.K. Trimurti albums (Perpusnas Khastara), captioned as a PDI campaign rally at Lapangan Banteng with speakers Moh. Isnaeni, Dra. SK. Trimurti and Wilopo. It shows Trimurti campaigning for the PDI under the New Order; Gerwani is not mentioned. Date unknown; description based on caption only.
Undated photograph from the Yayasan Idayu album (Perpusnas Khastara 1113765, image 03): by its title, a PDI campaign rally at Lapangan Banteng with speakers Moh. Isnaeni, Dra. SK Trimurti and Wilopo. As the PDI was formed in 1973, it is a New Order election-era image of Trimurti, a Gerwis founder; no text accompanies i
Undated photograph (Khastara 1113765) from the S.K. Trimurti album series: a PDI (Indonesian Democratic Party) campaign rally at Lapangan Banteng, Jakarta, with speakers Moh. Isnaeni, Dra. S.K. Trimurti and Wilopo, per the title. OCR yields only the library stamp. The year is not stated. No Gerwani content.
Image 01 of an album page from the Idayu Foundation photo collection (Perpusnas Khastara 296810), captioned 'SK. Trimurti sedang memangku anak thn 1939' (S.K. Trimurti holding a child, 1939). Background material on S.K. Trimurti; the OCR gives only the caption and no Gerwani content, and the page image was not inspecte
Image 02 of an album page from the Idayu Foundation photo collection (Perpusnas Khastara 296810), captioned 'SK. Trimurti sedang memangku anak thn 1939' (S.K. Trimurti holding a child, 1939). Background material on S.K. Trimurti; the OCR gives only the caption and no Gerwani content, and the page image was not inspecte
Image 03 of an album page from the Idayu Foundation photo collection (Perpusnas Khastara 296810), captioned 'SK. Trimurti sedang memangku anak thn 1939' (S.K. Trimurti holding a child, 1939). Background material on S.K. Trimurti; the OCR gives only the caption and no Gerwani content, and the page image was not inspecte
Photograph from the Yayasan Idayu albums of S.K. Trimurti held by Perpusnas Khastara, captioned as a group picture with Trimurti holding a child in 1939. It is a pre-1945 personal image of the labour and women's activist; it does not mention Gerwani. Description is based on the caption only; the image itself was not ex
Neues Deutschland, 4 June 1953, p. 1: picture caption 'Frauendelegationen zum Weltkongreß verabschiedet'. Delegates from Burma, Indonesia, Austria, the GDR and China were formally seen off in Berlin to the World Congress of Women in Copenhagen (opening 5 June); the photo shows Wilhelmine Schirmer-Pröscher with the Chin
Caption (1954) from WIDF's magazine: Indonesian and Dutch delegates met at the Geneva WIDF Executive Committee. Mrs. Rie Lips of the Dutch women's movement was invited to the congress of GERWIS, described as the national organisation in Indonesia with 80,000 members.
De Waarheid, 10 Mar 1954, p. 5: photo caption only, stating that Indonesian women work in the cigarette industry, often have to struggle for better working conditions, and that the Gerwis congress is also of great significance for them. Accompanies the NVB's pre-congress coverage; no further text.
De Waarheid, 19 Mar 1956, p. 3: profile of Lilly Wachter (West Germany), attending the NVB congress for the WIDF. Recalls the 1951 WIDF commission to Korea, in which Trees Sunito-Heyligers represented the NVB, and how Wachter was jailed 25 days and fined 12,000 marks after signing its report blaming US forces. Sunito a
Algemeen Indisch Dagblad (1956-09-13, p. 2): installation of Bandung's transitional municipal council by Governor Sanusi Hardjadinata. A photo caption lists members, including Mrs. Rd. Moesmini of Gerwani, Miss Sari Banon Jachja (NU) and Mrs. Amartiwi Moh. Saleh (PSI); the council serves one year.
Straits Times, 27 Sep 1956 (photo caption, lead only). A six-member Indonesian women's delegation to China, led by Mrs Roeslan Abdulgani with Madam Hurustiati Subandrio, stopped in Singapore en route to National Day celebrations in Peking on 1 October.
Photo caption item in Algemeen Indisch Dagblad (1957-09-09, p. 2): municipal councillors investigate living conditions of low-end sex workers in an alley of Kebon Sirih, Jakarta. Two women councillors speak with the women: Mrs. Musmini (Gerwani) standing left and Mrs. Amartiwi Saleh (PSI) in the middle.
Neues Deutschland, 14 December 1957, p. 4. Report 'Warum Christin und Handwerkerfrau für den Sozialismus sind' on discussions at the 6th DFD Federal Congress in Weimar. Indonesia appears only in a photo caption: foreign guests Mrs Geeta (India), Mrs Suwarti (Indonesia) and Mrs Wu (China) surrounded by GDR delegates, ex
De Waarheid, 19 Sep 1958, p. 6: photo captions from the Buchenwald memorial inauguration (14 Sep 1958) attended by a Dutch delegation. One caption notes Sulami, the Indonesian representative to the International Women's Movement (WIDF), receiving gifts from the Dutch delegation at the farewell evening, alongside delega
Neue Zeit (CDU-East), 23 November 1960, p. 1. Front page on the opening of the 7th DFD Federal Congress carries a photo caption: DFD deputy chair Wilhelmine Schirmer-Pröscher greets Gerwani central board members Mawarni Pardede and Nastiti [Soeprapto] at Berlin-Schönefeld airport. The text adds that representatives of
Tribune (Sydney), 10 Jan 1962, p. 1 front-page editorial backing Sukarno's proclamation of West Irian as an Indonesian province and attacking the Menzies government and ALP leader Calwell. Gerwani appears only in a photo caption: delegates welcome Sukarno at the opening night in Jakarta of the recent Gerwani National C
Tribune (Sydney), 10 Jan 1962, p. 1 front-page editorial backing Sukarno's proclamation of West Irian as an Indonesian province and attacking the Menzies government and ALP leader Calwell. Gerwani appears only in a photo caption: delegates welcome Sukarno at the opening night in Jakarta of the recent Gerwani National C
Renmin Ribao, 2 Nov 1962, p. 2: photo page with captions. Vice-Premier Chen Yi receives the Gerwani delegation led by Mrs Suwardi (Suwadi), and separately Sukirman, director of Radio Indonesia, with his family. The rest of the scanned page is unrelated agricultural news.
Renmin Ribao, 2 Nov 1962, p. 2: photo page with captions. Vice-Premier Chen Yi receives the Gerwani delegation led by Mrs Suwardi (Suwadi), and separately Sukirman, director of Radio Indonesia, with his family. The rest of the scanned page is unrelated agricultural news.
Api Kartini (1963) photograph caption only: 'Women of the PRC are also skilled at working inside mines'. No further text survives.
IISG photograph (1963): black-and-white group photo at the Jakarta KWAA (Afro-Asian writers' body) with a Korean delegation. Francisca Fanggidaej, in glasses and holding flowers, stands among men and women beside a film camera. Caption identification comes from the file title only.
IISG photograph (c.1963): outdoor group photo of Francisca Fanggidaej, in glasses and striped blouse, with several men, one identified as the poet Agam Wispi. Identifications come from the file title; no caption text in the image.
IISG photograph (c.1966): black-and-white photo of about twelve men and one woman standing before tall windows, from Francisca Fanggidaej's time in Shanghai and Beijing. Only the file title identifies place and person.
IISG photograph (n.d.): group walking along a corridor, men in suits and one woman, named in the file title as Said, Isa, Suryono, Francisca Fanggidaej and Tan Hurie Kiat, associated with KWAA. No caption text visible.
IISG photograph (n.d., Fanggidaej collection): large meeting hall in Peking with a presidium on stage behind flowers, photographers in front and audience seen from behind; file title says Communist Party meeting. No named individuals visible.
IISG photograph (n.d., Fanggidaej collection): woman in headscarf and polka-dot blouse watches two girls in Young Pioneer scarves at a loom, a man behind; taken in Shanghai, China. Documents Fanggidaej's China visits or exile.
Snippet-only Renmin Ribao front-page item (11 Aug 1963): Mao Zedong receives the Indonesian women's delegation led by Gerwani vice-chair Mrs Mudigdio, with All-China Women's Federation secretaries Yang Yunyu and Guo Jian present. Photo caption shows Mao shaking Mudigdio's hand (caption date given as 14 August, apparent
Suara Merdeka (Semarang), 9 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1. Front page with a Berita Yudha photograph of Suharto and Ibnu Subroto briefing the press on the discovery of the bodies at Lubang Buaya; otherwise security orders.
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
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.
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.
Eleven damaged colour prints (June 1974) of dioramas made by Edhi Sunarso's workshop for the Museum Satriamandala, showing oath-taking, assemblies and possibly an exhumation scene. Uncaptioned visual record of the military museum's historical narrative.
Photo caption in the Surinamese weekly Vrije Stem (2 Jul 1974): the 'Miss Djawa' contest organised by Trie Djokko Moeljo, won by Mavis Wirioredjo. Concerns Javanese-Surinamese community life; nothing on Indonesia's women's movement or Gerwani.
Photograph from the Koleksi Idayu album at Perpusnas Khastara, captioned as Dr. (h.c.) S.K. Trimurti giving a lecture. The album caption OCR reads a title 'Hubungan Pergerakan Buruh Indonesia dengan Pergerakan Kemerdekaan Nasional' dated 14 May 1975; the file name's truncated caption points to the labour and women's mo
Photograph, image 06 of the same Khastara item (575445) as the S.K. Trimurti lecture photograph, from the Yayasan Idayu albums, Perpusnas Khastara. Captioned in the file name as a lecture by Dr. (h.c.) S.K. Trimurti on the relation of the labour movement to the women's movement (title truncated). The OCR gives only the
Photograph from the Yayasan Idayu S.K. Trimurti albums (Perpusnas Khastara): a PDI (Indonesian Democratic Party) campaign rally at Lapangan Banteng, Jakarta, with speakers including Dra. S.K. Trimurti, Wilopo and Moh. Isnaeni. The caption OCR gives 1977, so the 1977 election campaign. S.K. Trimurti is the labour and wo
Photograph from the S.K. Trimurti album series (Koleksi Idayu), National Library of Indonesia (Khastara 582249), of the 21 May 1977 meeting of women fighters at Gedung Kebangkitan Nasional, Jakarta. The album caption page, partly legible, says the meeting marked the founding of the 'Yayasan Wanita Pejuang', chaired by
Photograph from the S.K. Trimurti album series (Koleksi Idayu), National Library of Indonesia (Khastara 582249), of the 21 May 1977 meeting of women fighters at Gedung Kebangkitan Nasional, Jakarta. Image 02 of the album series; no text on the image. Summary is from file name and folder only; individuals shown are not
Photograph from the S.K. Trimurti album series (Koleksi Idayu), National Library of Indonesia (Khastara 582249), of the 21 May 1977 meeting of women fighters at Gedung Kebangkitan Nasional, Jakarta. Image 03 of the album series; no text on the image. Summary is from file name and folder only; individuals shown are not
Photograph from the Yayasan Idayu album of S.K. Trimurti (Perpusnas Khastara 582249, image 04): by its title, a meeting of women fighters (wanita pejuang) at Gedung Kebangkitan Nasional, 21 May 1977. Trimurti's presence is inferred from the album; the file has no text and no named participants.
Photograph, image 05 of Khastara item 582249 (Yayasan Idayu albums), captioned as a meeting of women fighters ('wanita pejuang') at Gedung Kebangkitan Nasional on 21 May 1977. It sits in the S.K. Trimurti photo series, so Trimurti may appear, but no one is identified in the caption data. Image content not described; ca
Image 06 from the Idayu Foundation photo albums (Perpusnas Khastara 582249): the meeting of women fighters held at the Gedung Kebangkitan Nasional on 21 May 1977, in the S.K. Trimurti photograph series. The OCR is blank; participants are not identified from the file data.
Photograph from the Yayasan Idayu S.K. Trimurti albums (Perpusnas Khastara), image 07 of a series on the 21 May 1977 meeting of women fighters (pertemuan wanita pejuang) at the Kebangkitan Nasional building, Jakarta. No text or caption could be read, so people shown are not identified; no Gerwani link is evident.
Photograph from the S.K. Trimurti albums (Perpusnas Khastara), captioned as a meeting of women fighters (wanita pejuang) at the Kebangkitan Nasional building on 21 May 1977. It documents Trimurti-circle commemorative activity under the New Order; Gerwani is not mentioned. Description based on caption only; Trimurti's p
Photograph from the Yayasan Idayu S.K. Trimurti albums (Perpusnas Khastara), image 09 of a series on the 21 May 1977 meeting of women fighters (pertemuan wanita pejuang) at the Kebangkitan Nasional building, Jakarta. No text or caption could be read, so people shown are not identified; no Gerwani link is evident.
Photograph from the Yayasan Idayu album of S.K. Trimurti (Perpusnas Khastara 582249, image 10): by its title, a meeting of women fighters (wanita pejuang) at Gedung Kebangkitan Nasional, 21 May 1977. Another frame of the same meeting; no text and no named participants in the file.
Image 11 from the Idayu Foundation photo albums (Perpusnas Khastara 582249): the meeting of women fighters held at the Gedung Kebangkitan Nasional on 21 May 1977, in the S.K. Trimurti photograph series. The OCR is blank; participants are not identified from the file data.
Photograph from the S.K. Trimurti album series (Koleksi Idayu), National Library of Indonesia (Khastara 582249), of the 21 May 1977 meeting of women fighters at Gedung Kebangkitan Nasional, Jakarta. Image 12 of the album series; no text on the image. Summary is from file name and folder only; individuals shown are not
Photograph, image 01 of Khastara item 1114786, captioned as the opening of a carnival bazaar by Ibu Trimurti at Gedung Joang 45, Menteng Raya, Jakarta, on 13 August (1977 per the file name; the caption is truncated). From the Yayasan Idayu albums. Content not described. Image content not described; caption data only.
Photograph from the Yayasan Idayu S.K. Trimurti albums (Perpusnas Khastara), image 02: the opening of a carnival bazaar by Ibu Trimurti at Gedung Joang 45, Menteng Raya, Jakarta, on 13 August (year 1977 per the file name; title truncated). No text could be read. Shows Trimurti's public role after the New Order; no Gerw
Photograph from the S.K. Trimurti albums (Perpusnas Khastara), captioned as the opening of a carnival bazaar by Ibu Trimurti at Gedung Joang 45, Menteng Raya, 13 August (1977). It shows Trimurti in a public ceremonial role in the 1970s; Gerwani is not mentioned. Description based on caption only.
Photograph from the Yayasan Idayu album of S.K. Trimurti (Perpusnas Khastara 1114786, image 04): by its title, the opening of a carnival bazaar by Ibu Trimurti at Gedung Joang 45, Menteng Raya, 13 August 1977. Another frame of the same event as image 08; no text accompanies the image.
Image 05 from the Idayu Foundation photo albums (Perpusnas Khastara 1114786): the opening of a carnival bazaar by Ibu Trimurti at Gedung Joang 45, Menteng Raya, on 13 August 1977 (month truncated in file name as 'Agustu'). Part of the S.K. Trimurti photograph series; OCR blank and the image was not inspected.
Photograph (Khastara 1114786) from the S.K. Trimurti album series, 1977: the opening of a carnival bazaar by Ibu Trimurti at Gedung Joang 45, Menteng Raya, Jakarta. The day and month ('13 Agustu[s]') come from a truncated file name; no text on the image. No Gerwani content.
Photograph, image 07 of Khastara item 1114786, captioned as the opening of a carnival bazaar by Ibu Trimurti at Gedung Joang 45, Menteng Raya, Jakarta, on 13 August (1977 per the file name; caption truncated). From the Yayasan Idayu albums. Content not described. Image content not described; caption data only.
Photograph from the Yayasan Idayu album of S.K. Trimurti (Perpusnas Khastara 1114786, image 08): by its title, the opening of a carnival bazaar by Ibu Trimurti at Gedung Joang 45, Menteng Raya, 13 August 1977. A post-Gerwani record of Trimurti, a Gerwis founder; no text accompanies the image.
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
IISG photograph (1982): visit of Dutch visitors Alle and Aukje Hoekema to Sudjinah in Tangerang women's prison. Shows people seated on the floor around teapots and cups. Documents solidarity contact with a Gerwani leader imprisoned after 1965.
Fourteen prints from Edhi Sunarso's archive of Lubang Buaya dioramas, including 'Latihan sukarelawan P.K.I. di Lubang Buaya' and 'Penganiayaan dan pembunuhan di Lubang Buaya'. Titles match the Paseban dioramas opened in 1981. Visual material on the official narrative.
Three snapshots of President Suharto's visit to the Museum Pengkhianatan PKI at Lubang Buaya, probably at its 1 Oct 1992 inauguration. Shows him before dioramas made in Edhi Sunarso's workshop.
IISG portrait photograph of Sudjinah (no. 1 of 3, dated 2001, collection Ibu Sudjina): colour photograph of an elderly grey-haired woman seated at a table with a microphone, plants behind. Sudjinah is identified only by the file title; useful as visual documentation of a Gerwani leader later in life.
IISG portrait photograph of Sudjinah (no. 2 of 3, dated 2001, collection Ibu Sudjina): colour snapshot of an elderly woman in a brown blouse and white skirt on a garden path. Sudjinah is identified only by the file title; useful as visual documentation of a Gerwani leader later in life.
IISG portrait photograph of Sudjinah (no. 3 of 3, dated 2001, collection Ibu Sudjina): black-and-white head-and-shoulders portrait of an elderly woman with glasses in a white blouse. Sudjinah is identified only by the file title; useful as visual documentation of a Gerwani leader later in life.
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.
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
Jurnal Perempuan event report (3 Aug 2016) on a Solo discussion of Adrian Mulya's photobook Pemenang Kehidupan, portraits of elderly 1965 survivors made over seven years. Context on photography and survivors.
Photograph (24 Nov 2020) of a museum diorama of the recovery of the generals' bodies from the Lubang Buaya well, with frogman figure, coffins and red-bereted soldiers. Visual record of the official Lubang Buaya display.