Gerwani Archive
Researcher log in
GA-01572 1991-11-10 relevance A check rights

Akcaya, 10 November 1991: 'Kisah Sukitman tentang G30S PKI' (bagian kedua)

Sukitman's story of G30S/PKI (part 2)

Open file in Google DriveRead full text

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.

Akcaya (Pontianak), 10 November 1991, hlm. 7: bagian akhir kisah polisi Sukitman 1965, dengan redaksi menambahkan keterangan 'sukarelawan' sebagai '(Gerwani - red)', mereproduksi fitnah Orde Baru.

People

SukitmanUmar WirahadikusumahSarwo Edhie Wibowo

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Indonesian National Armed Forces

Places

Lubang BuayaHalim Perdanakusuma Air Force BasePontianak

Events

Army press sexual slander campaign against GerwaniExhumation at Lubang Buaya and generals' funeral

Topics

Lubang Buaya and sexual slanderNew Orderpropaganda and mediamemory, testimony and justice

Tags

court testimonysexual slandernew order narrativereprint

Details

Date
1991-11-10
Creator
Akcaya
Publication
Akcaya
Document type
newspaper article (Newspaper page (Pontianak regional daily, youth/activities page))
Language
Indonesian
Perspective
Indonesian mainstream/other press
Source role
primary
Country
Indonesia
Period
1980–1998
Source archive
Monumen Pers Nasional SIDAK · source link
Access
Monumen Pers Nasional SIDAK (free, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 per site), item 222612; downloaded 2026-10-15/16 via the Claude desktop browser. Freely viewable at source but reuse terms apply or are unrecorded: link to the source; host the file only after checking rights.
Citation (APA)
Akcaya. (1991, November 10). Akcaya, p. 7 [Youth/activities page]. Pontianak.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Later Indonesian press (1977-2021) - pages mentioning Gerwani (MPN SIDAK)/Akcaya (1991) - pages mentioning Gerwani (MPN SIDAK)/Akcaya (1991-11-10) - p. 07, Gerwani hit [MPN SIDAK 222612].jpg
OCR / text
Good (0.882) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › Later Indonesian press (1977-2021) - pages mentioning Gerwani (MPN SIDAK)/Akcaya (1991) - pages mentioning Gerwani (MPN SIDAK)
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

Related items

GA-02946 2011 rel A

Sexual Slander and the 1965 to 1966 Mass Killings in Indonesia (Wieringa, 2011)

Wieringa's 2011 article condensing her research: the army's sexual slander of Gerwani was the spark without which the genocide would not have happened; reconstructs the Lubang Buaya night (about 70 women and girls, mostly Pemuda Rakyat volunteers) and reads the monument mural. Programmatic synthesis.

shared: Army press sexual slander campaign against Gerwani, Exhumation at Lubang Buaya and generals' funeral, Indonesian National Armed Forces, Lubang Buaya

GA-01613 1989-03-15 Harian Neraca rel B

Harian Neraca, 15 Maret 1989: 'Siapa menabur angin akan menuai badai' (62)

Harian Neraca serial 'Siapa menabur angin akan menuai badai' (62): 1-4 October 1965 and the well at Lubang Buaya

Harian Neraca, 15 Mar 1989, p. 10: instalment 62 on 1–4 October 1965 (Suharto's assumption of command, recapture of RRI and Halim, finding the well via Sukitman); Gerwani appears once.

shared: Exhumation at Lubang Buaya and generals' funeral, Sukitman, Lubang Buaya, Halim Perdanakusuma Air Force Base

GA-01262 1965-10-07 Leeuwarder Courant rel A

Dramatische begrafenis in Djakarta: Luitenant redde het leven van Nasoetion (Dramatic funeral in Jakarta)

Dramatic funeral in Jakarta: lieutenant saved Nasution's life

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

shared: Army press sexual slander campaign against Gerwani, Exhumation at Lubang Buaya and generals' funeral, Indonesian National Armed Forces, Lubang Buaya

GA-01506 1965-10-15 South China Morning Post rel A licensed

Torture Squads in Djakarta: How Indonesian Generals Died (South China Morning Post, 15 Oktober 1965)

Torture squads in Djakarta: how Indonesian generals died (South China Morning Post, 15 October 1965)

South China Morning Post, 15 Oct 1965, p.12, 'Torture squads in Djakarta: how Indonesian generals died', by a special correspondent. A lurid account of the 1 October killings: it says 'frenzied members of the Gerwani women's organisation' chanted insults and danced naked while Pemuda Rakjat youths emasculated six gener

shared: Army press sexual slander campaign against Gerwani, Exhumation at Lubang Buaya and generals' funeral, Indonesian National Armed Forces, Lubang Buaya

GA-01612 1989-03-14 Harian Neraca rel A

Harian Neraca, 14 Maret 1989: 'Siapa menabur angin akan menuai badai' (61)

Harian Neraca serial 'Siapa menabur angin akan menuai badai' (61): army's 1965 sexual slander retold

Harian Neraca, 14 Mar 1989, p. 10: instalment 61, the serial's most important Gerwani item, reprinting the army's 1965 slander: PR and Gerwani dancing naked in a 'flower-scent party', sex permitted, stimulant injections, per 17-year-old Djamilah.

shared: Army press sexual slander campaign against Gerwani, Exhumation at Lubang Buaya and generals' funeral, Lubang Buaya, new order narrative

GA-02254 2012-10-01 Tempo rel B licensed

Di Bawah Cengkeraman Kopkamtib

Tempo, 1 October 2012: Under Kopkamtib's grip

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

shared: Army press sexual slander campaign against Gerwani, Umar Wirahadikusumah, Sarwo Edhie Wibowo, Lubang Buaya

GA-02296 2021-10-02 Tempo rel A licensed

Propaganda Hitam terhadap Gerwani

Tempo, 2 October 2021: Black propaganda against Gerwani (Ita Fatia Nadia)

Op-ed by Ita Fatia Nadia in Tempo (2 Oct 2021) tracing the army-controlled press campaign from 7 Oct 1965 that cast Gerwani as sexually sadistic, contradicted by the military doctors' autopsy (Roebiono Kertapati). It links the slander to the mass killings, Kowani's expulsion of Gerwani (29 Oct 1965), Lubang Buaya volun

shared: Army press sexual slander campaign against Gerwani, Umar Wirahadikusumah, Sarwo Edhie Wibowo, Lubang Buaya

GA-02240 2010-05-09 Tempo rel A licensed

Membela Gerwani dari Fitnah Orde Baru

Tempo.co, 9 May 2010: Defending Gerwani from New Order slander (Wieringa book)

Tempo.co book notice (9 May 2010) on Saskia Wieringa's Indonesian edition of 'Penghancuran Gerakan Perempuan' (Galangpress 2010, transl. Harsutejo). Recounts the military propaganda of naked dancing, razor-cutting and castration at Lubang Buaya, Wieringa's rebuttal from 1982-85 interviews and autopsy results, and Siti

shared: Army press sexual slander campaign against Gerwani, Exhumation at Lubang Buaya and generals' funeral, Indonesian National Armed Forces, Lubang Buaya