Trial will not go ahead (Tanti Aidit)
Short De Waarheid item (6 Mar 1980, p.9): the planned trial of Tanti Aidit after twelve years' detention will not go ahead. It argues she had nothing to do with the 'CIA-organised coup' and her only offence was Gerwani board membership, naming Suharti, Sudjinah and Shri Ambar as fellow Gerwani women who also paid.
Berita pendek De Waarheid (6 Mar 1980, hlm. 9): pengadilan Tanti Aidit setelah dua belas tahun ditahan tidak jadi digelar. Dinyatakan ia tak terkait 'kudeta bentukan CIA' dan satu-satunya 'kesalahannya' adalah keanggotaan pengurus Gerwani; Suharti, Sudjinah, dan Shri Ambar disebut sebagai sesama perempuan Gerwani yang turut menderita.
“Her only crime was her board membership of Gerwani; 'And like her Gerwani sisters, Suharti, Sudjinah and Shri Ambar' she had to pay (p. 9).”
Short FBIS item (Jakarta radio, 3 Feb 1975): four leaders of the PKI-affiliated Gerwani, Mrs Sri Ambar, Sujinah, Sulami and Suharti, went on trial in the Central Jakarta district court on subversion, conspiracy and rebellion charges linked to Gestapu-PKI. The report calls them the first PKI woman leaders to be tried.
shared: Suharti Suwarto, Sudjinah, Sri Ambar Rukmiati, court record
TAPOL Bulletin no. 37 (London, January 1980): editorial on the end of KOPKAMTIB's release plan, plus Julie Southwood's long study of 1,014 political trials since 1966. It notes the 1965 Lubang Buaya claim that communist women castrated the generals, and the 1975 subversion trial of Gerwani's Sulami and Sudjinah, with S
shared: Sudjinah, Sri Ambar Rukmiati, Soetanti Aidit, court record
De Waarheid, 20 Sep 1975, p. 3: article asking what the Indonesian parliamentary delegation did not mention: Plantungan women's camp in Central Java (386 women), Bukit Duri and Semarang prisons, and named women prisoners: Umi Sardjono, chair of the underground Gerwani, vice-chairs Salawati Daud and Mudigdio, Maasje Siw
shared: Sudjinah, Sri Ambar Rukmiati, Soetanti Aidit, prisons
De Waarheid, 24 Mar 1979, p. 8: sidebar on the clinic Gerwani opened on International Women's Day, 8 March 1958, a polyclinic and advice bureau for women in its building (destroyed in 1965), run by Tanti Aidit, now 12 years in pre-trial detention. Annie van Ommeren recalls the 1975 trial of Sulami (life), Suharti Harso
shared: Sudjinah, Sri Ambar Rukmiati, Soetanti Aidit, trials (Mahmillub)
ANP item in De Volkskrant (19 Jun 1975): the Dutch Women's Movement demanded immediate release of four Indonesian women, Sulami, Sri Ruhimirjati (probably Sri Ambar Rukmiati), Sudjinah and Suharti (surname garbled), for whom prosecutors sought 20 years to life after about seven years of detention, partly for collecting
shared: Sudjinah, Sri Ambar Rukmiati, court record, trials (Mahmillub)
Daily World (New York), 26 July 1975, p. 9: Foreign Department report that a Jakarta court on 16 June 1975 sentenced four women after a five-month trial: Sulami (general secretary of the Indonesian Women's Movement, 20 years), Sudjinah (magazine editor, 18), Sri Ambar (SOBSI women's section, 15) and Suharti Alimarkaban
shared: Sudjinah, Sri Ambar Rukmiati, court record, trials (Mahmillub)
TAPOL Bulletin no. 9 (March 1975) front page 'Women on Trial': photo of Sulami, Sudjinah, Sri Ambar Rukmiati and Suharti Harsono at their 3 Feb 1975 trial for subversion, with a Lubang Buaya sewing-and-cooking allegation. Early international attention to Gerwani trials.
shared: Sudjinah, Sri Ambar Rukmiati, court record, trials (Mahmillub)
Tribune (Sydney), 20 May 1975, p. 7, abridged from the British magazine TAPOL (Mar 1975): thousands of women remain among about 100,000 political prisoners. Describes Gerwani's work, its banning, the sexual slander ('sex-maniacs', mutilation claims) as fuelling the massacres, torture and rape of women tapols, Plantunga
shared: Sudjinah, Sri Ambar Rukmiati, prisons, trials (Mahmillub)