Harian Kami, 29 September 1966: poem 'We remember again'
Harian Kami, 29 September 1966. Rosihan Anwar's poem 'Kami Mengenang Kembali' narrates the New Order's founding story in verse and pictures the generals at Lubang Buaya being sunk, with Gerwani implied.
Harian Kami, 29 September 1966. Puisi Rosihan Anwar 'Kami Mengenang Kembali' menarasikan kisah pendirian Orde Baru dan menggambarkan para jenderal ditenggelamkan di Lubang Buaya, dengan Gerwani tersirat.
Harian Kami, 1 Agustus 1966: 'Aidit, Gerpol PKI & Kita'. Rosihan Anwar commentary quoting Aidit's alleged confession as published in the Asahi Evening News and The China Quarterly; mentions Gerwani as a 'gerpol' (political movement) front.
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UK Foreign Office file FO 371/180323 (c. 4-16 Nov 1965): Djakarta telegrams, Antara extracts and Foreign Office correspondence on the PKI's destruction, Subandrio, Nasution and Sukarno. Gerwani items: tel. 2480 (p. 39) reports a 8 Nov Jakarta rally of women's organisations demanding dissolution of the PKI and Gerwani;
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Roger Paget's 1970 Cornell PhD thesis on how student and youth action groups, culminating in KAMI, emerged after 1 October 1965 and helped undermine Sukarno. Gerwani appears in several passages: action fronts demanded its banning (p. 44) and its offices were ransacked (p. 63); Herlina denounced it for not fighting Mala
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Angkatan Bersendjata, 14 Jan 1966. Feature from Soetiman's 17 Dec 1965 statement: Gerwani and Pemuda Rakyat 'warmly welcomed' Yani's body and fought a half-hour battle on 2 October. Gerwani militarised but no mutilation or sexual element yet.
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Angkatan Bersendjata, 1 Oktober 1966 (edisi Hari Kesaktian Pancasila pertama). First-anniversary issue and the richest Gerwani source in the batch: prints the official 'Risalah singkat tragedi nasional' claiming officers were tortured 'beyond humanity by members of Pemuda Rakyat and GERWANI', plus 'Bung Piket' retrospe
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Leeuwarder Courant, 7 October 1965, p. 1: report on the exhumation of the seven murdered army officers from the Lubang Buaya well and the generals' funeral, with Nasution's escape and Lt Tendean's death. It relays Suharto's televised claim that the bodies lay next to a base where the air force trained Pemuda Rakjat and
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Twentsch Dagblad Tubantia (7 Oct 1965): Jakarta TV shows exhumation of the generals' mutilated bodies from the Lubang Buaya well; Suharto says they were found near the air-force base where Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani volunteers were trained, citing an arrested female volunteer from Cirebon. Also the generals' funeral and
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Akcaya (Pontianak), 10 Nov 1991, p. 7: concluding part of a retelling of police officer Sukitman's 1965 story, with the paper glossing the 'volunteers' as '(Gerwani - red)', reproducing the New Order slander.
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