Pest Megyei Hírlap, 7 Dec 1965: detainees in North Sumatra and Pati
Pest Megyei Hirlap (Hungarian), 7 Dec 1965, p. 56: brief Jakarta item on mass arrests after the 30 September Movement: 10,500 people, mostly plantation workers, held in North Sumatra and 10,333 arrested around Pati, Central Java, all described as members of the peasant front, People's Youth, Gerwani or other left organisations.
Pest Megyei Hirlap (Hungaria), 7 Desember 1965, hlm. 56: berita singkat dari Jakarta tentang penangkapan massal setelah Gerakan 30 September: 10.500 orang, kebanyakan buruh perkebunan, ditahan di Sumatra Utara dan 10.333 orang ditangkap di sekitar Pati, Jawa Tengah, semuanya disebut anggota barisan tani, Pemuda Rakyat, Gerwani atau organisasi kiri lain.
“p. 56: 'In the area of the Central Javanese town of Pati 10,333 people were arrested. All of them are members of the peasants' front, the people's youth league, the Gerwani women's league, or another left-wing organisation.'”
Heves Megyei Népújság, 7 Dec 1965, brief Jakarta item: 10,500 people, mostly plantation workers, held in North Sumatra (Brig. Gen. Sobiran), and 10,333 arrested around Pati in Central Java, all members of BTI, Pemuda Rakyat, Gerwani or other left organisations.
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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
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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: Mass killings of 1965–66, Indonesian Peasants' Front, Indonesian Army, Central Java
The Straits Budget (Singapore), 3 November 1965, p. 15, UPI/Antara: the army declares a state of war in Central Java and gives figures for civilians it says communists massacred (e.g. 62 bodies in three mass graves at Banyuwangi, 104 killed), while observers note the incidents all occurred after the coup. Nothing on Ge
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Xinhua report in Renmin Ribao (19 Apr 1966, p. 4) of a 13 April communiqué by the Thai Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Committee condemning Indonesia's military and 'reactionaries': 78,500 killed and 106,000 arrested per the Fact-Finding Commission in Bali, Java and North Sumatra; bans on Pemuda Rakyat, CGMI, Gerwani, B
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Edward J. Fox, University of Chicago MA dissertation (1968; the catalogue title says PhD) on the Indonesian armed forces' control programme and the pattern of violence from October 1965 to early 1968. Gerwani appears only in passing: a footnote cites 1.75 million members and notes its self-dissolution (p.32), and one u
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US Embassy airgram A-386, 10 Dec 1965: an informant describes anti-PKI operations around Kudus, where NU/Ansor helped the RPKAD and the informant gave the Army lists of Baperki members. Evidence that civilians compiled lists; Gerwani not mentioned.
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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
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