Gerwani Archive
Researcher log in
GA-01985 1965-10-20 relevance A licensed / copyrighted

Renmin Ribao, 20 Oktober 1965: Pidato radio dan pernyataan Suharto (苏哈托的广播讲话和声明)

Suharto's radio speeches and statements: Lubang Buaya well (snippet)

Open file in Google DriveRead full text

Snippet-only Renmin Ribao extract (20 Oct 1965, p. 3) from the compilation of Suharto's radio statements. Visible text is from his 4 October Lubang Buaya speech: the well site was an Air Force volunteer training centre with Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani activists, and arrested Gerwani trainees in Cirebon said they came from Central Java; truncated. Full text is GA-01986.

Cuplikan Renmin Ribao (20 Oktober 1965, hlm. 3) dari kompilasi pidato radio Suharto. Teks yang tampak berasal dari pidatonya di Lubang Buaya 4 Oktober: sekitar sumur adalah pusat latihan sukarelawan AU dengan aktivis Pemuda Rakyat dan Gerwani, dan peserta Gerwani yang ditahan di Cirebon mengaku berasal dari Jawa Tengah; terpotong. Teks lengkap GA-01986.

“members of [Gerwani] who were trained there and are currently under arrest in Cirebon ... came from Central Java, far from that area (p. 3, snippet).”

People

Suharto

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)People's YouthIndonesian Air Force

Places

Lubang BuayaHalim Perdanakusuma Air Force BaseCirebonCentral JavaIndonesia

Events

Exhumation at Lubang Buaya and generals' funeral

Topics

Lubang Buaya and sexual slander1965 coup and aftermatharrests and detentionpropaganda and media

Tags

speech textmilitary trainingmilitary installationssnippet only

Details

Date
1965-10-20
Creator
Renmin Ribao
Publication
Renmin Ribao
Document type
newspaper article (newspaper or periodical article/page)
Language
Chinese
Perspective
Socialist-bloc/solidarity press
Source role
primary
Country
China
Period
1965–1966
Source archive
People's Daily 人民日报图文数据库 (Columbia proxy) · source link
Access
library-licensed (Columbia University Libraries); personal research copy Library-licensed or subscription copy: show metadata and summary only; link to the source.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Renmin Ribao (1950-1966) - articles on Gerwani and Indonesian women (People's Daily database)/Renmin Ribao (1965-10-20) - 苏哈托的广播讲话和声明宣布他已经掌握了陆军领导权;表示必须 (Suharto's broadcast; Gerwani members arrested in Cirebon, Lubang Buaya training claims).pdf
OCR / text
Poor (0.38) · proof-reading: whole text (Claude, Oct 2026) · translation: yes
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › Renmin Ribao (1950-1966) - articles on Gerwani and Indonesian women (People's Daily database)
Summary basis
full text read; snippet only

Companion files

Related items

GA-02171 1965-10-06 Suara Merdeka rel B

Suara Merdeka, 6 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1

Suara Merdeka, 6 Oct 1965, p. 1: Lubang Buaya well and Kalibata burial

Suara Merdeka (Semarang), 6 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1. Front page after discovery of the officers' bodies: Suharto's RRI announcement of the Lubang Buaya well and Kalibata burial; his reply mentions an AURI-run training centre for 'sukarelawan/sukarelawati'. No Gerwani or mutilation mentioned.

shared: Exhumation at Lubang Buaya and generals' funeral, Indonesian Air Force, Suharto, Lubang Buaya

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: Exhumation at Lubang Buaya and generals' funeral, Indonesian Air Force, Suharto, Central Java

GA-01986 1965-10-20 Renmin Ribao rel A licensed

Renmin Ribao, 20 Oktober 1965: Pidato radio dan pernyataan Suharto (苏哈托的广播讲话和声明)

Suharto's radio speeches and statements of 1, 3 and 4 October 1965

Renmin Ribao (20 Oct 1965, p. 3) reprints Suharto's RRI statements of 1, 3 and 4 October 1965: he takes interim army leadership, calls the September 30th Movement counter-revolutionary, and at Lubang Buaya on 4 October says the well lay near an Air Force volunteer training centre with Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani activist

shared: Exhumation at Lubang Buaya and generals' funeral, Indonesian Air Force, Suharto, Central Java

GA-02406 1965-10-22 rel C licensed

The September 30 Affair: History and Interpretation of the Attempted Coup (US Embassy Airgram A-300)

US Embassy Djakarta Airgram A-300, 22 October 1965: The September 30 Affair - history and interpretation of the attempte

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: Exhumation at Lubang Buaya and generals' funeral, Indonesian Air Force, Suharto, Central Java

GA-02407 1965 rel C licensed

The September 30 Affair: Background to the Coup (US Embassy Airgram A-300, Johnson Library copy)

US Embassy Airgram A-300 (Johnson Library copy): The September 30 Affair - background to the coup

Second, noisier OCR copy of the same US Embassy Djakarta airgram A-300 of 22 October 1965 (Masters), from the Johnson Library country file, 46 pages. Covers Sukarno-PKI offensive, the coup, PKI and Sukarno roles, army prospects. Gerwani is mentioned only as PKI women taunting the generals at Lubang Buaya (p.14) and as

shared: Exhumation at Lubang Buaya and generals' funeral, Indonesian Air Force, Suharto, Central Java

GA-01382 1965-10-07 Twentsch Dagblad Tubantia rel A

Djakarta zag gruwelijke tv-film over opgraving lijken van generaals (Jakarta saw gruesome TV film of the exhumation of the generals' bodies)

Jakarta saw gruesome TV film of exhumation of generals' bodies

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

shared: Exhumation at Lubang Buaya and generals' funeral, Indonesian Air Force, Suharto, Central Java

GA-00726 1965-10-07 De Telegraaf rel A

Woedend (Furious)

Furious: Suharto's statement on the generals' bodies near the Halim training base

De Telegraaf item (7 Oct 1965) on General Suharto's television statement: the generals' bodies were found near the air-force base where Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani volunteers were trained, and an arrested female volunteer in Cirebon reportedly said volunteers came from Central Java. An early press link of Gerwani to the

shared: Exhumation at Lubang Buaya and generals' funeral, Indonesian Air Force, Suharto, Central Java

GA-02381 1965-10-06 rel A

FRUS 1964-68, vol. XXVI, Doc. 149: Intelligence Memorandum, The Upheaval in Indonesia (6 October 1965)

FRUS 1964-68 vol. XXVI, doc. 149: Intelligence memorandum, The Upheaval in Indonesia (6 October 1965)

FRUS 1964-68 vol. XXVI, doc. 149: CIA/OCI Intelligence Memorandum 'The Upheaval in Indonesia' (6 Oct 1965). Describes the 30 September Movement, Suharto's takeover and Sukarno's manoeuvres, and says GERWANI (the 'Communist women's front group') was reportedly involved. Quotes Suharto's 4 Oct statement that an area near

shared: Exhumation at Lubang Buaya and generals' funeral, Suharto, Central Java, Lubang Buaya