Walliser Volksfreund, 13 October 1965: The hunt for communists in Indonesia
Walliser Volksfreund (13 Oct 1965) running the Reuter report on the hunt for Communists: flight into Central Java mountains, Muslim attacks on PKI offices in Bandung, and an angry crowd burning down Gerwani premises in Aceh per Radio Djakarta. Includes a photo caption of the burned PKI headquarters.
Walliser Volksfreund (13 Okt 1965) memuat laporan Reuter tentang perburuan komunis: pelarian ke pegunungan Jawa Tengah, serangan kelompok Muslim ke kantor PKI di Bandung, dan massa membakar kantor Gerwani di Aceh menurut Radio Jakarta. Dilengkapi keterangan foto gedung PKI yang terbakar.
“On Monday an angry crowd set fire to the premises of the Indonesian organisation of Communist women, 'Gerwani', in Atjeh in North Sumatra.”
Short Reuter wire item in the Swiss farm paper Schweizer Bauer, 13 Oct 1965. Reports tension in Central Java as Communists flee to the mountains, and that an angry crowd burned down the Gerwani premises in Aceh, North Sumatra, per Radio Djakarta via Malaysian radio.
shared: Mass killings of 1965–66, Radio Jakarta, 30 September Movement, Central Java
Thurgauer Zeitung wire digest, 12 Oct 1965, on the anti-communist wave in Indonesia: Communists fleeing in Central Java, an angry crowd burning Gerwani premises in Aceh (per Radio Djakarta), Untung's capture, Antara placed under Army control, and Sukarno's remarks on 'imperialists'. Gerwani appears only in one sentence
shared: Mass killings of 1965–66, Radio Jakarta, 30 September Movement, Central Java
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 12 Oct 1965, 'Normalisation in Indonesia' (Reuter/UPI wire digest). Items: armed Communists fleeing into Central Java mountains, Antara placed under military management, evacuation of American embassy families, and a Swiss ambassador's credentials. Relevant here: Malaysian radio, citing Radio Jaka
shared: Mass killings of 1965–66, Radio Jakarta, Central Java, North Sumatra
Der Bund (Bern), 12 Oct 1965, Reuter report from Singapore: Lt Col Untung, leader of the 30 September Movement, reported captured; tense Central Java as armed Communists flee to the mountains; curfew reduced. Citing Malaysian radio quoting Radio Jakarta, a crowd burned down the Gerwani premises in Aceh (North Sumatra),
shared: Mass killings of 1965–66, Central Java, North Sumatra, Aceh
Suara Merdeka (Semarang), 21 Oktober 1965, hlm. 1. Front page on the anti-PKI mass action sweeping Semarang on 20 Oct 1965 after RPKAD's arrival under Sarwo Edhie: burning of PKI, SOBSI, CGMI and Baperki buildings; Gerwani appears among targets.
shared: Regional bans of the PKI and its mass organisations, Mass killings of 1965–66, Central Java, killings 1965–66
CIA 'Indonesian Situation' report no. 61, 14 November 1965: continuing anti-communist action and mass killings, Aidit's presumed whereabouts, and 1,000 women demonstrating in Jakarta for permanent dissolution of the PKI women's auxiliary. Records an early anti-Gerwani mobilisation.
shared: Regional bans of the PKI and its mass organisations, Mass killings of 1965–66, Central Java, killings 1965–66
Clipping from the Evening Post of 12 Oct 1965: US embassy dependants withdrawn; hundreds of Communist branch officials detained, Bandung committee arrested in Yogyakarta; Jakarta curfew eased. Communist youth, women's and trade-union offices ransacked in Jakarta, and a crowd burned the Gerwani office in Aceh, north Sum
shared: Radio Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Central Java, Bandung
Berita Yudha, 23 November 1965. Front page: Maluku Pepelrada dissolves the PKI and its mass organisations and detains 279 on Ambon in religious language denying the 'godless' PKI the right to live; Gerwani item on p. 2.
shared: Regional bans of the PKI and its mass organisations, Mass killings of 1965–66, killings 1965–66