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 part in the killings, 'ritual' singing and shooting, but says there is 'no hard evidence' of disfigurements or other atrocities.
Tribune (Sydney), 29 Juni 1966, hlm. 5: tajuk yang mengecam pemutihan rezim Suharto oleh pers Barat, disertai rekonstruksi panjang 30 September-1 Oktober 1965 dari New Left Review Inggris yang menggambarkannya sebagai aksi perwira muda. Disebut auksilier Pemuda Rakyat dan Gerwani di Halim terlibat pembunuhan, dengan nyanyian dan tembakan 'ritual', tetapi 'tidak ada bukti kuat' mutilasi atau kekejaman lain.
“Involved in all this were auxiliaries, undergoing training at Halim Base, from both the Communist People's Youth and the Communist Gerwani women's movement... There is no hard evidence however of disfigurements or other atrocities. (p. 5)”
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
shared: 30 September Movement, Mass killings of 1965–66, Harian Rakjat, Indonesian Army
Article by Lucien Rey (New Left Review no. 36, March 1966) reconstructing the 1 October 1965 events as a plot by dissident Central Java officers, plus a translated Asahi Shimbun interview with PKI deputy chair Njoto. Says People's Youth and Gerwani auxiliaries trained at Halim took part in the generals' executions in r
shared: 30 September Movement, Harian Rakjat, Indonesian Army, Cakrabirawa Regiment
UK Foreign Office file FO 371/180318 (Oct 1965): Djakarta embassy telegrams, minutes and copied US cables on the 30 September affair. Covers the anti-PKI demonstration and burning of PKI HQ, Sukarno's return, Suharto and Nasution, and Anglo-American debate on backing the generals. Only Gerwani-relevant item: the 10 Oct
shared: 30 September Movement, Harian Rakjat, Cakrabirawa Regiment, D.N. Aidit
RAND memorandum RM-5753-PR (Feb 1969), Guy J. Pauker, 'The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Indonesia'. Argues, from trial records, that Aidit planned the 30 September action against the generals and traces PKI strategy, the Chinese turn, the agrarian 'unilateral actions' and the killings (up to 300,000), and th
shared: 30 September Movement, Mass killings of 1965–66, D.N. Aidit, A.H. Nasution
US Embassy Djakarta airgram A-300 (22 Oct 1965, Edward Masters), a 46-page analysis of the 30 September Movement, the PKI, Sukarno, Air Force and army prospects. Gerwani appears only twice: as members of PKI paramilitary TIK units trained at Halim, and as PKI women said to have taunted and humiliated the generals at Lu
shared: 30 September Movement, Cakrabirawa Regiment, D.N. Aidit, Suharto
UK Foreign Office file FO 371/180320 (Oct-Nov 1965): Gilchrist's despatch no. 13 of 8 Oct 1965 on the coup and counter-coup, plus telegrams, NATO and Commonwealth reports and Chinese/Soviet/Hanoi reactions. The despatch lists GERWANI among 'chief suspects' (p. 11) and says members of PKI youth and women's groups took p
shared: 30 September Movement, Harian Rakjat, D.N. Aidit, Suharto
Journal article by Coen Holtzappel (Journal of Contemporary Asia, 1979) analysing the Untung and Njono trial records to argue the 30 September Movement was steered by Air Force and Army intelligence, with Sjam's Pringgodani group deliberately compromising the PKI and Aidit. Gerwani is mentioned only once, in a footnote
shared: 30 September Movement, Indonesian Army, Cakrabirawa Regiment, D.N. Aidit
Hermawan Sulistyo's 1997 Arizona State history PhD, 'The Forgotten Years', studies the 1965-66 killings in Jombang-Kediri, East Java, from interviews and documents, finding no single national pattern and stressing local conflict and military-backed operations. Gerwani appears in passing: its claimed 1.75 million member
shared: 30 September Movement, Mass killings of 1965–66, Cakrabirawa Regiment, D.N. Aidit